Forbidden Cocktails: Libations Inspired by the World of Pre-Code Hollywood

What might Jean Harlow have sipped for Dinner at Eight? What did Barbara Stanwyck take to steal herself in Baby Face? If you're a classic film fan who's ever pondered these questions, or are a bartender or at-home entertainer who adores Prohibition-era cocktails, this guide to mixed drinks inspired by Pre-Code Hollywood is essential reading. The stars and stories of the "forbidden" time in moviemaking before strict censorship was enforced and the movies reflected a raucous freedom that would be unseen again for decades take the spotlight in Forbidden Cocktails. With 50 film-and-drink pairings and packaged handsomely with more than 100 full-color and black-and-white photos throughout, this is a practical and stunning homage to a singularly exuberant and evocative era.

Movie-and-cocktail pairings include: The Divorcee / Balanced Account
Hell's Angels / Platinum Blonde
Dracula / Count Draiquiri
Strangers May Kiss / Stranger's Kiss
The Public Enemy / Tom Powers
Night Nurse / My Pal Rye
Shanghai Express / Shanghai Lily
Scarface / First Ward
One Way Passage / Passage to Paradise
Trouble in Paradise / Lubitsch Touch
Call Her Savage / Greenwich Village
Sign of the Cross / Naked Moon
Gold Diggers of 1933 / Pettin' in the Park
Flying Down to Rio / Hotel Hibiscus
It Happened One Night / It Happened One Morning
The Thin Man / Asta