The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934 film)
1934 American film directed by Sidney Franklin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 American romantic drama film directed by Sidney Franklin based on the 1930 play of the same title by Rudolf Besier. It depicts the real-life romance between poets Elizabeth Barrett (Norma Shearer) and Robert Browning (Fredric March), despite the opposition of her abusive father Edward Moulton-Barrett (Charles Laughton). The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and Shearer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. It was written by Ernest Vajda, Claudine West, and Donald Ogden Stewart, from the successful 1930 play The Barretts of Wimpole Street by Rudolf Besier, and starring Katharine Cornell.
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Directed by | Sidney Franklin |
Screenplay by | Donald Ogden Stewart Ernest Vajda Claudine West |
Based on | The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1930 play by Rudolf Besier |
Produced by | Irving Thalberg |
Starring | Norma Shearer Fredric March Charles Laughton |
Cinematography | William H. Daniels |
Edited by | Margaret Booth |
Music by | Herbert Stothart |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date | September 14, 1934 (1934) |
Running time | 110 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $820,000[1][2][3] |
Box office | $1,258,000 (Domestic earnings)[1] $1,085,000 (Foreign earnings)[1] |
In 1957, Franklin directed a color remake in CinemaScope and Metrocolor starring Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, and Bill Travers.