The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Suitor Robert Browning (Fredric March) encourages heretofore invalid fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett (Norma Shearer) in making her way around her London home until her father (Charles Laughton), less supportive of her recovery, interrupts, in The Barretts Of Wimpole Street, 1934.

London, 1845, Anabel and Henrietta (Katharine Alexander, Maureen O?Sullivan) persuade their invalid poet sister Elizabeth Barrett (Norma Shearer) to receive admiring fellow poet Robert Browning (Fredric March), calling for the first time, in MGM?s The Barretts Of Wimpole Street, 1934.

All siblings here, Norma Shearer as invalid poet Elizabeth Barrett (later Browning), Maureen O’Sullivan lively sister Henrietta, Matthew Smith, Neville Clark among brothers when their autocratic father (Charles Laughton) appears, framing the story, early in MGM’s The Barretts Of Wimpole Street, 1934.