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The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
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Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: London, 1845. A somber drama about the relationship between the poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. The Barrett family lives in a beautiful house on Wimpole Street. But beyond the facade... London, 1845. A somber drama about the relationship between the poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. The Barrett family lives in a beautiful house on Wimpole Street. But beyond the facade of their lovely home lies a tyrannical patriarch who stifles his daughter Elizabeth. The poor girl is a bed-ridden invalid who lives in solitude with her poetry and her little dog. But when she meets Browning, a handsome suitor and fellow poet, she finds the strength to make a miraculous recovery. [More]
Starring: Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Katherine Alexander
Starring: Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Katherine Alexander, Una O'Connor, Ian Wolfe, Norma Shearer, Ralph Forbes
Director: Sidney Franklin
Director: Sidney Franklin
Producer: Irving Thalberg
Screenwriter: Ernest Vajda, Claudine West, Donald Stewart
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Reviews for The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Sidney Franklin's first version of the story is stiff and stagy, but it offers good roles for Charles Laughton as the tyrannical and abusive father and Norma Shearer as his invalid poet-daughter.
When not even Charles Laughton, playing a deranged, scarily pious, and pretty obviously incestuous domineering father can save a film, you know you have problems.
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