Barbara Stanwyck suffers for love in a slick pre-code weepie that sees her somehow losing her child to her politician lover and his wife after posing as her daughter's governess in an attempt to deflect her journalist friend's suspicions about their affair. Most of the plot is utterly ridiculous, but it's also maddeningly watchable thanks to some terrific chemistry between Stanwyck and Adolphe Menjou.
Review of Forbidden
