The Barretts of Wimpole Street1934
When poets love, Heaven and Earth fall back to watch!
Director
Screenplay
Claudine West, Ernest Vajda, Donald Ogden Stewart
Actors
Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Katharine Alexander, Ralph Forbes, Ian Wolfe, Leo G. Carroll, Una O'Connor
Music
Versions
Theatrical – 109 Minutes
Genres
About the film
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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