The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
Country: US
Technical: bw 109m
Director: Sidney Franklin
Cast: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan
Synopsis:
The daughter of a stern patriarch, who has forbidden his offspring to marry, falls in love with the poet Robert Browning, with whom she shares a poetic correspondence.
Review:
Affecting MGM costume drama, conceived as a prestige picture for Mrs Thalberg. The acting is stilted now, but it still rises to one or two powerful scenes.
Country: US
Technical: bw 109m
Director: Sidney Franklin
Cast: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan
Synopsis:
The daughter of a stern patriarch, who has forbidden his offspring to marry, falls in love with the poet Robert Browning, with whom she shares a poetic correspondence.
Review:
Affecting MGM costume drama, conceived as a prestige picture for Mrs Thalberg. The acting is stilted now, but it still rises to one or two powerful scenes.
Country: US
Technical: bw 109m
Director: Sidney Franklin
Cast: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan
Synopsis:
The daughter of a stern patriarch, who has forbidden his offspring to marry, falls in love with the poet Robert Browning, with whom she shares a poetic correspondence.
Review:
Affecting MGM costume drama, conceived as a prestige picture for Mrs Thalberg. The acting is stilted now, but it still rises to one or two powerful scenes.