The Forbidden Street

The Forbidden Street
1949 US Theatrical Poster
Directed by	Jean Negulesco
Produced by	William Perlberg
Written by	Ring Lardner, Jr.
Based on	Britannia Mews 1946 novel by Margery Sharp
Starring	Dana Andrews Maureen O'Hara Sybil Thorndike
Narrated by	Maureen O'Hara
Music by	Malcolm Arnold
Cinematography	Georges Périnal
Edited by	Richard Best Robert L. Simpson
Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox
Release date	31 March 1949
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Forbidden Street is a 1949 British melodrama film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Dana Andrews, Maureen O'Hara, Sybil Thorndike, Fay Compton and A. E. Matthews. In Victorian London, a young woman marries a poor drunken artist and struggles to make ends meet. After his death, she takes in a lodger whom she soon falls in love with.

From a well to do family, Adelaide (Maureen O'Hara), over the objections of her family, marries an impoverished artist Henry Lambert (Dana Andrews) who is later killed in an accident when Adelaide pushes him away. Adelaide is blackmailed for two years by her neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, a spiteful old hag (Sybil Thorndike) who claims to the police that Henry was killed accidentally.

Adelaide still living in the Britannia Mews, when a young barrister, Gilbert Lauderdale (Dana Andrews), shows up who is the living image of Adelaide's late husband. He gets rid of the old woman by threatening to prosecute her for blackmail, eventually reunites Adelaide with her family, and along the way falls in love with her himself.