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The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1930 play by the Dutch/English dramatist Rudolf Besier, based on the romance between Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, and her domineering father's unwillingness to allow them to marry.
- Rudolf Besier
- 20 August 1930
- 1930
- Elizabeth Barrett's bed-sitting-room at 50 Wimpole Street, London, in 1845
With Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna. 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, History
- Sidney Franklin
- 1957-01-16
Description. A play in three acts. Setting. Elizabeth Barrett's bed-sitting-room at 50, Wimpole Street, London. 1845. People. Production Staff. Opening Night Cast. Replacements. Theatre Owned / Operated by Charles Frohman, Inc. Produced by Katharine Cornell. Written by Rudolf Besier. Directed by Guthrie McClintic.
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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
One of the most famous plays of the modern theatre. The text is Katharine Cornell's prompt script. The scene is Elizabeth Barrett's room. Here she lives with her father, sisters and brothers. Never too healthy, she has been kept prisoner by her domineering father, who rules his family with unbelievable severity.
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.
