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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 film directed by Sidney Franklin, dramatizing the Real Life courtship and marriage of the famed Victorian-era British poets Elizabeth Barrett (Sonnets from the Portuguese) and Robert Browning.London, 1845: Elizabeth "Ba" Barrett (Norma Shearer), then 35 years old, is already a well-known poet. She is also an invalid and shut-in, who has not left her room in years and hardly ever even stands on her feet. It soon becomes apparent, however, that Ba isn't quite as sickly as she's made out to be, and has in fact been kept semi-imprisoned by her cold and domineering widowed father, Edward Moulton-Barrett (Charles Laughton). Already rebelling against her father's dictatorial control, Ba has even more reason to rebel when admirer and fellow poet Robert Browning (Fredric March) pays a social call and declares his love for her.Based on a 1930 stage play by Rudolph Besier, which starred the famous American stage actress Katharine Cornell. Cornell declined an offer to star in this film, and in fact never appeared in any film except for a cameo As Herself in Stage Door Canteen.A remake, again directed by Sidney Franklin and starring Jennifer Jones and John Gielgud, was released in 1957. | |
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Pervert Dad | |
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Pervert Dad: See Incest Subtext above. | |
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Could Say It, But... | |
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Could Say It, But...: Part of Edward's passive-aggressive (but mostly aggressive) behavior towards Elizabeth. | |
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Fantasy-Forbidding Father | |
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Fantasy-Forbidding Father: When the fantasy is something like, say, getting married, or even going outside. | |
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Elmuh Fudd Syndwome | |
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Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Three years before the trope namer made his debut. In any case, Ba's incredibly irritating Cousin Bella talks this way. ("We're going to Pawis on our honeymoon! Then Wome!") | |
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Knight Templar Parent | |
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Knight Templar Parent: Edward. He has essentially imprisoned his daughter, forcing her to drink porter beer that she loathes because the doctor says it's good for her — and when the doctor prescribes milk instead, making her drink the damn beer anyway for obedience's sake and demanding that she do it in a spirit of loving, willing cheerfulness — insisting that her curtains be closed, forbidding her from attempting to walk downstairs. And he acts this way with his other daughters, refusing to let Henrietta even see her suitor, Captain Cook of the British Army. | |
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Good-Looking Privates | |
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Good-Looking Privates: Not a private, an officer, but—Capt. Cook is so handsome in his dress uniform that Henrietta insists he come in so Elizabeth can see him in all his Bling of War. This leads to an ugly confrontation when Edward returns unexpectedly and catches the three of them in Elizabeth's room. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Elizabeth finally lets Edward have it near the end, telling him that she sees he doesn't really love his family at all, and that he is a "shadow" over their lives. | |
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Shrug of God | |
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Shrug of God: In-Universe. At their first meeting, Elizabeth asks Robert about a particularly obscure passage in one of his poems. Robert puzzles over it for a bit and then admits that he doesn't know what it means either. | |
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Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny | |
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Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny: In his Villainous Breakdown, Edward more or less admits that his own unyielding grip on Elizabeth and Henrietta is driven by his own belief that sex is sinful, because it led to him raping his wife. | |
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As Himself | |
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As Himself: Flush the dog gets this credit. | |
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Based on a True Story | |
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Based on a True Story: Edward Moulton-Barrett might or might not have been a deeply disturbed Covert Pervert as the film suggests, but he did oppose the courtship of Elizabeth and Robert, and he did disinherit her after she got married, and did so for all his children who got married. The film fails to mention that Elizabeth's brothers were also against her marriage, and shunned Robert Browning, believing him to be a Gold Digger. | |
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Expospeak | |
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Expospeak: A conversation between Elizabeth and her doctor in the first scene neatly establishes that 1) Elizabeth is a published poet, 2) she is an invalid and a shut-in, and 3) Robert Browning has written her a fan letter. | |
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Marital Rape License | |
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Marital Rape License: Edward, as part of his Villainous Breakdown at the end, strongly implies—at least as far as 1934 censorship allowed—that all of his children after Elizabeth, totaling eight, resulted from Edward raping his wife. | |
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Sexless Marriage | |
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Sexless Marriage: Apart from her father's tyranny, Elizabeth cites this as a reason to not marry Robert, saying that she can't provide him "passionate love" or children, due to her ill health. (In Real Life Elizabeth Barrett wound up delivering a son.) | |
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It's All About Me | |
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It's All About Me: Edward's real reason for keeping Elizabeth in his home as a virtual prisoner. When all his hectoring about her health fails to dissuade Elizabeth from taking a trip to Italy, he falls back on guilt. He accuses her of abandoning him and leaving him alone—his eight other children (in real life he had twelve!) not being sufficient companionship. | |
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Wedding Finale | |
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Wedding Finale: Ends with Elizabeth and Robert's marriage. | |
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Incest Subtext | |
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Incest Subtext: It gradually becomes clear that Edward's fixation on his daughter is not about her health but about something far darker. After more or less admitting that he repeatedly raped his late wife (see Marital Rape License below), as well as commenting about how Sex Is Evil And He Is Horny, Edward embraces Elizabeth and starts saying some most un-fatherly things about how they have to be together forever. It's after this little talk that Elizabeth decides to get the hell out and go away with Robert. The studio demanded the Incest Subtext be toned down but Charles Laughton later said they couldn't tone down the "gleam" in his eye. | |
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And Your Little Dog, Too! | |
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And Your Little Dog, Too!: At the end, having been informed that Elizabeth has left home forever, Edward goes into Villainous BSoD for a minute. Then he snaps out of it, saying "Yes...I'll have her dog." He turns to one of his sons and orders for Elizabeth's dog to be destroyed, only for a triumphant Henrietta to tell him that Ba took the dog with her. | |
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Would Hit a Girl | |
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Would Hit a Girl: Edward's Villainous Breakdown starts hitting high gear when, after finding out about Henrietta and Capt. Cook, he grabs her arms and twists painfully, while demanding that she vow to give him up. | |
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Love Before First Sight | |
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Love Before First Sight: Robert announces this at his first meeting with Elizabeth, saying he has already fallen in love with her through her poetry and her letters. | |
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