The Forbidden Street 1949 original vintage lobby card on heavy card stock. 11x14 inches.

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.

Movie lobby cards are a uniquely American creation. They are a hybrid of movie posters and, usually, movie star photos. Back in the early 1910s, the small
nickelodeons, where films were first shown, started morphing into larger, more permanent, and more elegant venues.