The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1934 "When poets love, Heaven and Earth fall back to watch!"

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

6.9 | 1h49m | NR | en | Drama

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. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.

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6.9 | 1h49m | NR | en | Drama , Romance

Synopsis

Cast

Norma Shearer ,Fredric March ,Charles Laughton

Director

Cedric Gibbons

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ,

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Cast

Norma Shearer

as Elizabeth Barrett

[2008] Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood [2002] The Kid Stays in the Picture [1942] Her Cardboard Lover [1942] We Were Dancing [1940] A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound [1939] The Women [1938] Marie Antoinette [1936] Romeo and Juliet [1934] The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Fredric March

as Robert Browning

[2007] Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman [2003] Complicated Women [1973] The Iceman Cometh [1967] Hombre [1964] Seven Days in May [1962] The Condemned of Altona [1960] Inherit the Wind [1957] Albert Schweitzer [1956] Island of Allah

Charles Laughton

as Edward Moulton-Barrett

[1969] The Epic That Never Was [1962] Advise & Consent [1960] Under Ten Flags [1960] Spartacus [1957] Witness for the Prosecution [1954] Hobson's Choice [1953] Young Bess [1953] Salome [1952] Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd