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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 (Charles Laughton).
- September 14, 1934
- Irving Thalberg
The Barretts of Wimpole Street. 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. Presented first at the Malvern Festival in August 1930, the play transferred to the ...
- Rudolf Besier
- 20 August 1930
- 1930
- Elizabeth Barrett's bed-sitting-room at 50 Wimpole Street, London, in 1845
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.
- (2.1K)
- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Sidney Franklin
- 1934-09-21
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1957 British CinemaScope historical film originating from the United Kingdom; it was a re-make of the earlier 1934 version by the same director, Sidney Franklin. [4] Both films are based on the 1930 play The Barretts of Wimpole Street by Rudolf Besier. The screenplay for the 1957 film is credited to John ...
- $2.2 million
- Sam Zimbalist
The Barretts of Wimpole Street: Directed by Sidney Franklin. With Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna. Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Sidney Franklin
- 1957-01-16
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.
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 ...
- Romance
