The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934 film)
The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 American film depicting the real-life romance between poets Elizabeth Barrett (Norma Shearer) and Robert Browning (Fredric March), despite the opposition of her father Edward Moulton-Barrett (Charles Laughton).
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and Shearer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
It was written by Ernest Vajda, Claudine West and Donald Ogden Stewart, from the play by Rudolf Besier.
The film was directed by Sidney Franklin.
This film was based upon the famous 1930 play, "The Barretts of Wimpole Street", starring Katharine Cornell.
Subsequent film in 1957
"The Barretts of Wimpole Street" starred Jennifer Jones and Bill Travers.
The W Plan
The W Plan is a 1930 British spy film produced and directed by Victor Saville and starring Brian Aherne, Madeleine Carroll, Gibb McLaughlin, and Gordon Harker.
The screenplay was written by Saville with Miles Malleson and Frank Launder, based on the novel of the same name by Graham Seton.
When the film was released in the United States, Aherne was appearing in" The Barretts of Wimpole Street" on Broadway, and receiving praise for his performance as Robert Browning.
The film was a critical success, but did not do well at the box office.
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957 film)
The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1957 Metrocolor CinemaScope film originating from the United Kingdom, and was a re-make of the earlier 1934 version by the same director, Sidney Franklin.
Both films are based on the play" The Barretts of Wimpole Street" by Rudolf Besier.
The screenplay for the 1957 film is credited to John Dighton, although Franklin used exactly the same script for the second movie as he did for the first.
The film, set in the early 19th century, stars Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, and Bill Travers.
Rudolf Besier
Rudolf Wilhelm Besier( 2 July 1878 – 16 June 1942) was a 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 on dramatisations.
Michael Darlow
Michael Darlow( born 13 June 1934) is a British television producer, director and writer.
After starting as an actor, his first short film was seen by documentary film maker John Grierson and shown on TV and at the 1960 Edinburgh Film Festival.
Darlow's documentary, drama and arts programmes have won international awards including BAFTAs, an Emmy, and Gold at the New York Television Festival.
His works include The World At War episode" Genocide", The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Johnny Cash at San Quentin and" Bomber Harris".
He is a Fellow of the Royal Television Society.
Richard Thorp
Richard Stanley Thorp( 2 January 1932 – 22 May 2013) was an English actor.
He was best known for his 30- year tenure portraying Alan Turner in the ITV soap opera" Emmerdale" from 1982- 2009 and 2010- 2013.
He also appeared in films such as" The Dam Busters"( 1955) and" The Barretts of Wimpole Street"( 1957).
Brian Aherne
William Brian de Lacy Aherne( 2 May 190210 February 1986) was an English actor of stage, screen, radio and television, who enjoyed a long and varied career in England and America.
His first Broadway appearance in" The Barretts of Wimpole Street" in 1931 teamed him with Katherine Cornell, with whom he would appear in many later productions.
In films, he played opposite Madeleine Carroll, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth and Carole Lombard, and was Oscar- nominated for his role as Emperor Maxmilian in" Juarez"( 1939).
On TV he appeared in" Wagon Train" and" Rawhide".
Ernest Vajda
Ernest Vajda( born Ernő Vajda; 27 May 1886 in Komárno, Austria- Hungary, today Slovakia – 3 April 1954 in Woodland Hills, California) was a Hungarian actor, playwright and novelist, but is more famous today for his screenplays.
He co-wrote the screenplay for the film" Smilin' Through"( 1932), based on the hit play by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin.
Vajda also wrote the screenplay for the first film version of Rudolph Besier's" The Barretts of Wimpole Street"( 1934).
Sidney Franklin (director)
Sidney Arnold Franklin (March 21, 1893 – May 18, 1972) was an American film director and producer.
Franklin, like William C. deMille, specialized in adapting literary works or Broadway stage plays.
His brother Chester Franklin (1889–1954) also became a director during the silent film era best known for directing the early Technicolor film "The Toll of the Sea".
Katharine Cornell
Katharine Cornell( February 16, 1893
June 9, 1974) was an American stage actress, writer, theater owner and producer.
She was born in Berlin to American parents and raised in Buffalo, New York.
Dubbed" The First Lady of the Theatre" by critic Alexander Woollcott, Cornell was the first performer to receive the Drama League Award, for" Romeo and Juliet" in 1935.
Cornell is noted for her major Broadway roles in serious dramas, often directed by her husband, Guthrie McClintic.
The couple formed C.& M.C. Productions, Inc., a company that gave them complete artistic freedom in choosing and producing plays.
Their production company gave first or prominent Broadway roles to some of the more notable actors of the 20th century, including many British Shakespearean actors.
Cornell is regarded as one of the great actresses of the American theatre.
Her most famous role was that of English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the 1931 Broadway production of" The Barretts of Wimpole Street".
Other appearances on Broadway included in W. Somerset Maugham's" The Letter"( 1927), Sidney Howard's" The Alien Corn"( 1933), Juliet in" Romeo and Juliet"( 1934), Maxwell Anderson's" The Wingless Victory"( 1936), S. N. Behrman's" No Time for Comedy"( 1939), a Tony Award- winning Cleopatra in" Antony and Cleopatra"( 1947), and a revival of Maugham's" The Constant Wife"( 1951).
Cornell was noted for spurning screen roles, unlike other actresses of her day.
She appeared in only one Hollywood film, the World War II morale booster" Stage Door Canteen", in which she played herself.
She did appear in television adaptations of" The Barretts of Wimpole Street" and Robert E. Sherwood's" There Shall Be No Night".
She also narrated the documentary" Helen Keller in Her Story", which won an Oscar.
Primarily regarded as a tragedienne, Cornell was admired for her refined, romantic presence.
One reviewer observed," Hers is not a robust romanticism, however.
It tends toward dark but delicate tints, and the emotion she conveys most aptly is that of an aspiring girlishness which has always been subject to theatrical influences of a special sort."
Her appearances in comedy were infrequent, and praised more widely for their warmth than their wit.
When she played in" The Constant Wife", critic Brooks Atkinson concluded that she had changed a" hard and metallic" comedy into a romantic drama.
Cornell died on June 9, 1974, in Tisbury, Massachusetts( on Martha's Vineyard), aged 81, and is buried at Tisbury Village Cemetery, Tisbury, Martha ’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.

Question: What is the date of death of the director of film The Barretts Of Wimpole Street (1934 Film)?
Answer: May 18, 1972