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M-G-M. Director Sidney Franklin; Producer Sam Zimbalist; Screenplay John Dighton; Camera F.A. Young; Editor Frank Clarke; Music Bronislau Kaper; Art Director Alfred Junge

Jennifer Jones
John Gielgud
Bill Travers
Virginia McKenna
Jean Anderson
Vernon Gray

Lovers of the classics will find The Barretts of Wimpole Street a reliving of the romance between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning as originally plotted in Rudolf Besier's play and in a 1934 screen version, also made by Metro.

Sidney Franklin, who directed the original screen version starring Norma Shearer and Fredric March, helms this production.

Jennifer Jones, while a surprisingly healthy-looking Elizabeth, plays the invalid literary figure with great skill. Bill Travers' Browning, the vigorous, colorful poet who managed to court and win the delicate Elizabeth under the nose of her despotic father, is personable and competent enough.

John Gielgud, the father with an almost incestuous attachment for his daughter, repeats the role originally done by Charles Laughton with all the stern menace it requires. Virginia McKenna is lively and appealing as the younger sister, Henrietta, secretly in love with Vernon Gray, good as Captain Surtees Cook.

(Color) Widescreen. Extract of a review from 1957. Running time: 104 MIN.

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