The Barretts of Wimpole Street
When poets love, Heaven and Earth fall back to watch!
Starring: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Katharine Alexander
Writer: Rudolph Besier, Ernest Vajda, Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart
Release Date:
September 21, 1934
September 21, 1934
Ratings:
6.0 / 10
6.0 / 10
Director:
Sidney Franklin
Sidney Franklin
Companies:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Overview
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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