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My Forbidden Past (1951) - Only The Great Beauties

Barbara (Ava Gardner) has contrived to meet a boat, unable to shake conniving cousin Paul (Melvyn Douglas), ostensibly meeting another cousin (Jack Briggs) but really after ex-lover professor Mark (Robert Mitchum), who has a new wife (Janis Carter) and who believes she jilted him, in My Forbidden Past, 1951.

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A beauty with a skeleton in her closet seeks revenge on the suitor who jilted her in My Forbidden Past (1951) starring Ava Gardner.
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Without preamble, Ava Gardner appears as New Orleans belle Barbara, with Robert Mitchum as unmarried academic lover Mark, plotting a dramatic departure, opening director Robert Stevenson's My Forbidden Past, 1951, also starring Melvyn Douglas.
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Ben Mankiewicz introduces My Forbidden Past, 1951.

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