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The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 American romantic drama film directed by Sidney Franklin based on the 1930 play of the same title by Rudolf Besier. It depicts the real-life romance between poets Elizabeth Barrett ( Norma Shearer ) and Robert Browning ( Fredric March ), despite the opposition of her abusive father Edward Moulton-Barrett ...
The Barretts of Wimpole Street: Directed by Sidney Franklin. With Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan. Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
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- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Sidney Franklin
- 1934-09-21
Rudolph Besier's play, The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1931), the love story of Victorian-era poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, was a Broadway hit starring Katharine Cornell as Barrett, Brian Aherne as Browning, and Cedric Hardwicke as Barrett's monstrously domineering father.
- Sidney Franklin, Hugh Boswell
- Norma Shearer
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Jan 9, 2024 · Language. English. The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 film, dramatizing the Real Life courtship and marriage of the famed Victorian-era British poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Addeddate. 2024-01-09 13:32:25.
Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett (Norma Shearer) is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta (Maureen O'Sullivan), but...
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- Norma Shearer
- Sidney Franklin
- Romance
Overview. Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him.
The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 American romantic drama film directed by Sidney Franklin based on the 1930 play of the same title by Rudolf Besier. It depicts the real-life romance between poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, despite the opposition of her abusive father Edward Moulton-Barrett.