The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Storyline

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.

Top Cast

Norma Shearer

Norma Shearer

Elizabeth Barrett

Fredric March

Fredric March

Robert Browning

Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton

Edward Moulton-Barrett

Maureen O'Sullivan

Maureen O'Sullivan

Henrietta Barrett

Katharine Alexander

Katharine Alexander

Arabel Barrett

Ralph Forbes

Ralph Forbes

Captain Surtees Cook

Ian Wolfe

Ian Wolfe

Harry Bevan

Marion Clayton Anderson

Marion Clayton Anderson

Bella Hedley

Leo G. Carroll

Leo G. Carroll

Dr. Ford-Waterlow

?

Ferdinand Munier

Dr. Chambers

Una O'Connor

Una O'Connor

Wilson

Vernon Downing

Vernon Downing

Octavius Barrett

?

Neville Clark

Charles Barrett

?

Matthew Smith

George Barrett

?

Robert Carleton

Alfred Barrett

?

Allan Conrad

Henry Barrett

?

Peter Hobbes

Septimus Barrett

?

Flush

Himself

Director

Sidney Franklin

Writers

Donald Ogden Stewart, Claudine West, Ernest Vajda

Status

Released

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The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)