Forbidden Fruit (1921 American Color Silent Drama film)

Forbidden Fruit is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Agnes Ayres, Forrest Stanley, Clarence Burton, and Kathlyn Williams. It is a remake of the 1915 film The Golden Chance, which was also directed by DeMille. The film survives in prints at George Eastman House and the Library of Congress.

Plot
Mrs. Mallory (Williams) persuades Mary Maddock (Ayres), her unhappily married seamstress, to take the place of an absent guest at her dinner party so that her husband can complete a business deal with Nelson Rogers (Stanley) rather than make his trip out West. Gorgeously gowned and very beautiful, Mary wins the heart of Nelson at the party, who asks her to marry him. Mary realizes what she is missing and remains faithful to her abusive and idle husband Steve Maddock (Burton), whom she supports. After a final insult from him (throwing a shoe at her bird that knocks the cage out a window to its death), she remains with the Mallorys, who need her for a weekend with Nelson.

Cast
Agnes Ayres as Mary Maddock
Clarence Burton as Steve Maddock
Theodore Roberts as James Harrington Mallory
Kathlyn Williams as Mrs. Mallory
Forrest Stanley as Nelson Rogers
Theodore Kosloff as Pietro Giuseppe
Shannon Day as Nadia Craig
Bertram Johns as John Craig
Julia Faye as Maid
William Boyd (uncredited)