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The Barretts of Wimpole Street topped the Film Daily year-end poll of 424 critics as the best film of 1934. The film was considered a success at the box office. According to MGM records it earned theater rentals of $1,258,000 in the US and Canada and $1,085,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $668,000.
- September 14, 1934
- Irving Thalberg
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
A classic Hollywood romance film based on the play by Rudolf Besier, starring Norma Shearer and Fredric March. The film follows the story of an invalid poetess who marries a young poet against her father's wishes.
- Sidney Franklin, Hugh Boswell
- Norma Shearer
Jan 9, 2024 · 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
It was filmed in 1934, starring Fredric March, Norma Shearer and Charles Laughton. That film was remade scene-for-scene and almost shot-for-shot, in colour, in 1957, starring Bill Travers , Jennifer Jones and John Gielgud .
- Rudolf Besier
- 20 August 1930
- 1930
- Elizabeth Barrett's bed-sitting-room at 50 Wimpole Street, London, in 1845
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Release Date (Theaters): Sep 8, 1934 original. Release Date (Streaming): Mar 17, 2017. Runtime: 1h 50m. Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Production Co: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Cast & Crew. Norma...
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Summaries. Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning. In 1845 London, the Barrett family is ruled with an iron fist by its stern widowed patriarch, Edward Moulton-Barrett.
