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    The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 American historical romantic drama film directed by Sidney Franklin based on the 1930 play of the same title by...
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  • re-make of the earlier 1934 version by the same director, Sidney Franklin. Both films are based on the 1930 play The Barretts of Wimpole Street by Rudolf...
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    The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1930 play by the Dutch/English dramatist Rudolf Besier, based on the romance between Robert Browning and Elizabeth...
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    Besier The Barretts of Wimpole Street as evidence that 20th-century literary criticism of Barrett Browning's work has suffered more as a result of her popularity...
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    Robert Browning (category English people of Scottish descent)
    the play The Barretts of Wimpole Street, by Rudolph Besier. It was a success and brought popular fame to the couple in the United States. The role of...
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    but he is better known as the son and heir of the celebrated English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, of whose manuscripts and memorabilia...
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    Brian Aherne (category Alumni of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts)
    appearance in The Barretts of Wimpole Street in 1931 teamed him with Katharine Cornell, with whom he appeared in many productions. In films, he played opposite...
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    Browning's main audience for all his poetry was his beloved wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Browning based del Sarto's love for his wife, Lucrezia, on his...
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    from the Portuguese, written c. 1845–1846 and published first in 1850, is a collection of 44 love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The collection...
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    famous role was that of English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the 1931 Broadway production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street. Other appearances on...
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  • The Battle of Marathon is a rhymed, dramatic, narrative poem by Elizabeth Barrett (later Browning). Written in 1820, when Barrett was aged 14, it retells...
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    Aurora Leigh (category Poetry by Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
    novel by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poem is written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number, the number of the Sibylline Books)...
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  • voted the second best picture of 1934 in Film Daily's annual poll of critics, narrowly edged out by The Barretts of Wimpole Street. Two scenes from The House...
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    Charles Laughton (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
    Laughton's biggest film hits were The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Ruggles of Red Gap, Jamaica Inn, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Big Clock, and Spartacus...
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    [who?] she was ignored in favor of Grace Moore for One Night of Love, Norma Shearer for The Barretts of Wimpole Street, and eventual winner Claudette Colbert...
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  • (France) Charlie Chan in London 14 September The Barretts of Wimpole Street Death on the Diamond 15 September The Scarlet Empress 17 September Young and Beautiful...
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    Irving Thalberg (category Film producers from California)
    version of The Merry Widow Riptide (1934) The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) The Merry Widow (1934) What Every Woman Knows (1934) Biography of a Bachelor...
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  • Laughton, 1934 (publicity photo for film The Barretts of Wimpole Street) Una Merkel, 1934 Madge Evans, circa 1935 Greta Garbo (publicity photo for film Ninotchka...
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    Norma Shearer (category American film actresses)
    Of these, The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) proved her most successful at the box office, making a profit of $668,000, in part because the film contained...
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  • Rudolf Besier (category Dutch people of the Dutch East Indies)
    Dutch/English dramatist and translator best known for his play The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1930). He worked with H. G. Wells, Hugh Walpole and May Edginton...
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    Ernest Vajda (category Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States)
    screenplay for the first film version of Rudolph Besier's The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934). The Unknown Tomorrow (1923) The Crown of Lies (1926) You Never...
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    Ian Wolfe (category American male film actors)
    (1921). Wolfe made his film debut in The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934). He appeared in many films, including Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Alfred Hitchcock's...
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    Sebastian, or, Virtue Rewarded (category Poetry by Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
    Rewarded" is the name of an unpublished poem written around 1815 by the 9-year-old Elizabeth Barrett, later famous as Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The autographed...
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    Sidney Franklin (director) (category Film directors from San Francisco)
    Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957; a scene-for-scene remake of the 1934 version) The Dark Angel (1935) The Good Earth...
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  • Guthrie McClintic (category Film directors from Washington (state))
    was on A. A. Milne's The Dover Road. McClintic's first major success was on The Barretts of Wimpole Street featuring his wife, the American actress Katharine...
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    Armstrong Browning Library & Museum (category University and college academic libraries in the United States)
    the home of the largest collections of works by English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Additionally it is thought to house the...
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    The Academy also announced that The Barretts of Wimpole Street came in second, and The House of Rothschild third. The Academy also announced that The...
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    Maureen O'Sullivan (category American film actresses)
    in six Tarzan films between 1932 and 1942, alongside Johnny Weissmuller. O'Sullivan also appeared in films such as The Thin Man (1934), Anna Karenina...
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    Casa Guidi (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    inhabited by Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning between 1847 and Mrs Browning's death in 1861. Their only child, Robert Barrett Browning (known as Pen), was...
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    and Lyrics in 1845. This poem, set in seventeenth-century France, is the monologue of a woman speaking to an apothecary as he prepares a poison, which she...
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