Forbidden Paradise

Forbidden Paradise is a 1924 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by German film director Ernst Lubitsch. The film is based on a 1922 Broadway play, The Czarina, by Edward Sheldon who adapted the Hungarian language book of Melchior Lengyel and Lajos Bíró. The play starred Doris Keane, in one of her last stage roles, about Catherine the Great. Basil Rathbone costarred with Keane. The film starred Pola Negri as Catherine the Great and Rod La Rocque in the Rathbone role. The film marked Clark Gable's second film appearance.

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Cast

Pola Negri as Catherine (the Czarina)

Rod La Rocque as Capt. Alexei Czerny

Adolphe Menjou as Chancellor

Pauline Starke as Anna

Fred Malatesta as French ambassador

Nick De Ruiz as The General

Carrie Daumery as Lady-in-Waiting

Clark Gable as Soldier in Czarina's guard (uncredited)