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With Jane Lapotaire, Joss Ackland, Jeremy Brett, Nigel Stock. Jane Lapotaire and Joss Ackland star in this adaptation of Rudolph Besier's play. Elizabeth Barrett is kept a virtual prisoner by her father. Then the poet Robert Browning bursts into her life.
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- Drama
- Michael Darlow
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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
Malvern, Worcestershire. Setting. Elizabeth Barrett's bed-sitting-room at 50 Wimpole Street, London, in 1845. 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
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- 1982
- Michael Darlow
This film has been made several times and is unique as it hints at the dark side of a Victorian father's attachment and need to control his 8 children after the death of his wife. It has made it this far as a tale to be told because it involves a love story between poets Elixabeth Barrett-Browning and Robert Browning ( a jug of wine and thou ...
12/30/1982 (GB) History , Drama 2h 42m. User. Score. Overview. Jane Lapotaire and Joss Ackland star in this adaptation of Rudolph Besier's play. Elizabeth Barrett is kept a virtual prisoner by her father. Then the poet Robert Browning bursts into her life. Michael Darlow. Director. Rudolph Besier. Writer. Reviews. Discussions 0.
Claudine West. Screenplay. Donald Ogden Stewart. Screenplay. 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.