The Barretts of Wimpole Street

“When poets love, Heaven and Earth fall back to watch!”

Elizabeth Barrett (Norma Shearer) is a poet who wants more than the sickroom where she has spent years recovering. Her father, Edward Moulton-Barrett (Charles Laughton), rules the Wimpole Street household and has no plans to let her leave it. Sidney Franklin follows her first meeting with the poet Robert Browning (Fredric March), and Elizabeth finds herself with a reason to hope.