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The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Cast

Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan View All


Crew

Donald Ogden Stewart (Screenplay), Claudine West (Screenplay), Sidney Franklin (Director), Ernest Vajda (Screenplay) View All

Release: Sep. 21st, 1934
Runtime: 1 hour, 49 minutes
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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Citizen Rules
It's quite an intense story of a maniacal father, aptly played by Charles Laughton, who controls, threatens and sends fear into the heart of his adult children, especially the two young women, Elizabeth (Norma Shearer) and Henrietta (Maureen O'Sullivan).


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