The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1934
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1h 49m

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Charles Laughton, Fredric March, and Norma Shearer in The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)

Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

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6.9/10

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Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 6 wins & 2 nominations total

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Trivia
Concerned about the public's reaction, the disturbing subplot about Father Barrett's incestuous designs on his daughter was toned down by the studio. However, Charles Laughton famously remarked that they couldn't censor the "gleam" in his eye.

Goofs
It's stated in the beginning that it is 1845, but in the first scene Henrietta sings 'Little Brown Jug', which was written in 1869.

Quotes
Elizabeth Barrett: What's another disaster to one who has known little but disaster all her life? But you're a fighter. You were born for victory and triumph. Oh, and if disaster ever came to you through me...
Robert Browning: Yes, a fighter. But I'm sick of fighting alone. I need a comrade in arms to fight beside me.
Elizabeth Barrett: But not one already wounded in battle.
Robert Browning: Wounded but undaunted, unbeaten, unbroken. What finer comrade could a man ask for?

Connections
Featured in And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)

Soundtracks
Wilt Thou Have My Hand
(1934) (uncredited)
Music by Herbert Stothart
Words by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Performed by Norma Shearer (piano and vocal)
Reprised by her, Maureen O'Sullivan, Katharine Alexander, Vernon Downing,
Neville Clark, Matthew Smith, Robert Carleton, Allan Conrad and Peter Hobbes

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7/10

A very passionate romance!

Sidney Franklin joins the 3 Oscar winners in this Romantic Drama.

The story is told of a young poet (Norma Shearer) who has a serious health problem which prevents her from having a normal life, this young woman falls in love with Mr. Browning (Fredric March) another poet which corresponds to the young woman, but What is the impediment? Her father (Charles Laugthon), a frivolous, cruel and manipulative man who imposes her interests over the wishes of his children.

It is a story full of drama, very well done. The script has no distractions and is enhanced every time.

A good costume and general production, setting the 1800s very well.

The impeccable performances, brought together 3 titans who did a great performance.

Charles Laughton made us hate him, Fredric March believe in love, Maureen O'Sullivan who I did not mention at the beginning but who achieves a tremendous freshness with a very strong character despite being secondary, and finally we have Norma Shearer who earned her fourth Oscar nomination with this role that most evolved and managed to make us empathize.