Overview

Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.

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Cast

Norma Shearer

Fredric March

Charles Laughton

Maureen O'Sullivan

Katharine Alexander

Ralph Forbes

Ian Wolfe

Marion Clayton Anderson

Leo G. Carroll

Ferdinand Munier