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The Barretts of Wimpole Street

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

6.2(24)19341h 49m2

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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Status
Released
Budget
$820K
Box office
$1.3M
Language
English
  • london, england
  • abusive father
  • poet
  • biography
  • based on play or musical
  • family relationships
  • church
  • free will
  • overbearing father
  • pre-code
  • self confidence
  • father daughter conflict

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereNRPittsburgh, Pennsylvania14 Sept 1934
    • Theatrical21 Sept 1934

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The Barretts of Wimpole Street was released on 21 September 1934.

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    Keiferschultz

    8/1/2024

    I'm sorry, but the scenes with Norma Shearer and Fredric March simply fall flat. Shearer's "fey" acting style is contemptible at the best of times, but her overacting in every single scene simply destroys the fabric of this otherwise well written melodrama. Who saves the day? Charles Laughton of course! His is truly the only performance which shines in this movie. Uno O'Connor and a ravishingly beautiful Maureen…

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    CinemaSerf

    7/4/2025

    7/10

    I thought that there was something almost claustrophobic about this film as we are introduced to a well-off family who live in a grand villa in London’s west end. There are nine siblings, all well into adulthood, and all under the thumb of their oppressive windowed father (Charles Laughton). His red line rule is that none of them are ever to marry, which up until now has not mattered so much. When eldest daughter, an…

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