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	The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		IMDb > The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
		Barrett, whose warped personality and twisted sensual ego forces him to demand complete, unswerving obedience from his terrified offspring.
		Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861), the eldest of ten children, lived a very happy childhood by all accounts, free to write and pursue her intellectual interests.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0024865 (802 words)

	Miss Kitty Takes to the Road: The Barretts of Wimpole Street in Seattle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As the windowed wall of Elizabeth Barrett's room fell into place before the distant canvas glimpses of Wimpole Street and the windows in turn were hung with the rich portieres and valances of yesteryear, the enthusiasm mounted.
		The focal point of The Barretts of Wimpole Street is the couch from which Robert Browning rescues the sleeping princess.
		As Elizabeth Barrett, Miss Cornell must spend the entire first act, probably the longest act in all dramatic literature, supine upon that couch, and it is a matter for very careful calculation to have the lights which play upon it adjusted to the fraction of an inch.
	washingtonhistory.org /wshs/columbia/articles/0403-a4.htm (3135 words)

	The Barretts of Wimpole Street
		Edward Barrett (John Gielgud) governs his family with strict regulations and does not allow his children to socialize outside the home.
		Barrett becomes infuriated over the developing relationship between Elizabeth and Robert.
		The Barretts Of Wimpole Street had been filmed successfully in 1934 with Norma Shearer, Fredric March and Charles Laughton under the direction of Sydney Franklin.
	home.hiwaay.net /~oliver/barretts.html (203 words)

	Greenwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Barretts of Wimpole Street fame came to Jamaica in the 1660s and amassed great wealth from their sugar plantations.
		Both Greenwood and Barrett Hall, a couple miles up the hill behind it, once belonged to Richard Barrett, a leading planter in the island who was once Speaker of the Assembly and Custos of the parish of St. James.
		He was a cousin of the Moulton Barretts of Cinnamon Hill and thus related to the Barretts of Wimpole Street.
	www.jnht.com /st_james/grnwood.html (145 words)

	Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Elizabeth Barrett Browning is best known for her series of 44 love sonnets known as Sonnets from the Portuguese.
		She is also the heroine of The Barretts of Wimpole Street, a play which tells the story of her courtship and marriage.
		Elizabeth Barrett Browning's reputation as a poet was higher than her husband's during her lifetime, then she lost popularity.
	www3.baylor.edu /abl/elizpoetry.htm (206 words)

	Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
		He bursts upon the Barrett household and in the first scene with Elizabeth proclaims his deep love for her.
		His zest for life, and devotion to Elizabeth, bring the young woman to the point where she is ready to marry him and run away to Italy.
		Her father tries to keep her with him, but nothing prevails, and the lovers leave Wimpole Street to embark on their life together.
	www.dramatists.com /cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1161 (231 words)

	[minstrels] How do I love thee? -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
		I was recently reminded of this poem while watching a re-run of 'The Barretts of Wimpole Street' with Lawrence Olivier and Greer Garson in the lead - marvellous performances in a marvellous play.
		For centuries, the Barrett family, who were part Creole, had lived in Jamaica, where they owned sugar plantations and relied on slave labor.
		Immortalized in 1930 in the play The Barretts of Wimpole Street, by Rudolf Besier (1878-1942), their romance was bitterly opposed by her father, who did not want any of his children to marry.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/269.html (1550 words)

	goatdog's movies - The Barretts of Wimpole Street, 1934
		The titular Barretts are Elizabeth Barrett—known to the world with an additional last name that she picks up during this film— her eight siblings, and her horrible father Edward.
		In real life, she had a lung ailment and was injured in a fall from a horse, both of which left her pretty much out of commission.
		Norma Shearer was nominated for Best Actress and the film for Best Picture; Shearer lost to Claudette Colbert, who deserved her award while Shearer wouldn't have, and the film lost to It Happened One Night, and everything was right with the world.
	goatdog.com /moviePage.php?movieID=649 (722 words)

	Basil Rathbone: The Barretts of Wimpole Street
		Basil Rathbone was not part of the Broadway production, but joined the cast for the tour, which began in October, 1933.
		Elizabeth Barrett's Bed-Sitting-Room at 50 Wimpole Street, London, in 1845.
		Because of marital difficulties and because he had suffered from love, the elder Barrett attempts to discourage any love-affairs into which his children might enter.
	www.basilrathbone.net /theater/barretts.htm (233 words)

	Divas - The Site / Sorceress
		The Barretts of Wimpole Street, confided to an interviewer that the cast was actually attractive “in person”, and that its extent was such that one could not be entirely sure Norma was looking directly at a particular individual.
		The Barretts of Wimpole Street show her with a pair fully three-quarters of an inch long, heavily mascara-ed.
		She also used cosmetic tricks with the rest of her face to make her eyes more prominent; the main pattern was to keep anything from distracting attention from her carefully highlighted eyes.
	www.divasthesite.com /sorceress.htm (5838 words)

	The Barretts of Wimpole Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 film depicting the real-life romance between poets Elizabeth Barrett (Norma Shearer) and Robert Browning (Fredric March), despite the opposition of her father Edward Moulton-Barrett (Charles Laughton).
		In 1957, Sidney Franklin filmed a word-for-word, and nearly shot-for-shot Metrocolor remake, of The Barretts of Wimpole Street, in Cinemascope.
		This version starred Jennifer Jones as Elizabeth, John Gielgud as her father, Bill Travers as Robert Browning, and Keith Baxter in his film debut.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Barretts_of_Wimpole_Street (1243 words)

	Amazon.com: Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934): Video: Norma Shearer,Fredric March,Charles Laughton,Maureen ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The whole Barrett family is miserable, and everyone (even relatives) tells Elizabeth that in her weakened condition it's only a matter of time before she dies.
		Elizabeth Barrett was already a well known poetess when Robert Browning came to Wimpole Street to pay her his respects--and Browning was really unknown.
		"The Barretts of Wimpole Street", was an prestigious stage play that gave famed actress Katherine Cornell one of her most memorable acting roles in the early years of...
	www.amazon.com /Barretts-Wimpole-Street-Norma-Shearer/dp/6302308321 (1591 words)

	TIME.com: The New Pictures -- Jan. 21, 1957 -- Page 1
		In the past quarter-century, Poet Robert Browning and Poetess Elizabeth Barrett have become almost as famed a pair of lovers to U.S. audiences as Romeo and Juliet.
		The principal reason for the fame of all three is Rudolf Besier's play, The Barretts of Wimpole Street.
		Liberally sprinkling the dialogue with quotations from the lovers'letters and poems, Playwright Besier applied the golden formula, love triumphs over tyranny, and for a climax had his bedridden heroine rescued from the sick room by her lover.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,865705,00.html (734 words)

	The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934 b 110') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934 b 110')
		In 1845 Elizabeth Barrett (Norma Shearer) has been shut up as an invalid in a room for five years, but her doctor suggests a change.
		The buoyant spirit of the poetic Robert raises the spirits of Elizabeth sufficiently to liberate her from her father's control.
	www.san.beck.org /MM/1934/BarrettsofWimpoleSt.html (486 words)

	The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		IMDb > The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957)
		The original play by Rudolf Besier was produced in Broadway and was performed at the Empire Theatre from 9 February 1931 to December 1931.
		Sir John Gielgud was a superb actor cast in the role of Elizabeth's tyrannical father.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0050169 (263 words)

	Movie Info for The Barretts of Wimpole Street on MSN Movies
		First filmed in 1934 with Norma Shearer, Fredric March and Charles Laughton, Rudolf Bessier's stage hit The Barretts of Wimpole Street was lavishly remade in CinemaScope and Metrocolor in 1957.
		This time around, Jennifer Jones stars as the beautiful invalid Elizabeth Barrett, who lives under the despotic rule of her Victorian-era father Edward Moulton Barrett (John Gielgud).
		The Barretts of Wimpole Street was the final directorial effort of Sidney Franklin, who also helmed the 1934 version.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=69720 (139 words)

	Norma Shearer @ Lynn's Classic Movie Favorites - Featured Films - The Barretts of Wimpole Street, 1934
		The Barretts of Wimpole Street is the story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's life at home and her escape to marry Robert Browning, the famous poet.
		When producer Irving Thalberg cast his wife, Norma Shearer, in the role of Elizabeth Barrett, William Randolph Hearst was enraged that his protégé, Marion Davies, was not given the role.
		So Hearst pulled Davies out of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and placed her with Warner Brothers for the remainder of her career, and for over a year, the name "Norma Shearer" did not appear in any Hearst newspapers.
	classicmoviefavorites.com /shearer/barretts.html (223 words)

	Robert Browning Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Robert Browning is known to the general public as the writer of "The Pied Piper," the hero of the play, The Barretts of Wimpole Street—and little more.
		His parents supported him in this endeavor until he was in his thirties and married Elizabeth Barrett.
		He was always true to his vocation but received little public appreciation until the publication of The Ring and the Book in 1868-1869 when he was in his fifties.
	www3.baylor.edu /abl/rbrowning.htm (422 words)

	The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) - Channel 4 Film review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Franklin's first adaptation of Besier's famous play (he would return to it more than 20 years later) is a typically lush MGM production set in 19th-century London.
		The tyrannical father of the wealthy Barretts (Laughton) has banned members of his family from marrying, but he cannot stop daughter Elizabeth (Shearer) meeting and falling in love with the poet Robert Browning (March).
		The film drips with prestige, the three actors all having won Oscars in the three years leading up to its making, and they all put in good work here amid the handsome sets.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=100861 (149 words)

	Art Poster Print - Barretts of Wimpole Street by unknown Print Size: 17 x 11 inches. - SHOP.COM
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	The Barretts of Wimpole Street \| Plot \| MTV Movies
		The series' April 2, 1956 presentation was Guthrie McClintic's adaptation of Rudolf Besier's 1931 Broadway hit The Barretts of Wimpole Street.
		Repeating her celebrated stage role as the fragile, invalided poetess Elizabeth Barrett was McClintic's wife, Katherine Cornell, in her first television appearance.
		Previously filmed by Hollywood in 1934 with Norma Shearer, Fredric March and Charles Laughton, The Barretts of Wimpole Street would again go before the cameras one year after this well-mounted Producers' Showcase production, this time with Jennifer Jones, Bill Travers and John Gielgud.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/235755/plot.jhtml (264 words)

	The Brownings 1 in ZhurnalWiki
		Katharine Cornell (an actress who played the role of EBB in "The Barretts of Wimpole Street") says in her preface:
		In their lives the Brownings gave evidence that the romance of which they and the other poets of their generation wrote, was actual and substantial.
		So it was with Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, both of whom were living persons predestined to understand the fulness and warmth of life.
	zhurnal.net /ww/zw?TheBrownings1 (618 words)

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