Il film racconta la storia della sensibile e dotata poetessa Elizabeth Barrett, che, grazie all'amore del poeta Browning, trovò la forza di guarire dalla paralisi e il coraggio di ribellarsi ad un padre severissimo.
- Genere: Dramma, Romance
- Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Parola chiave: london, england, abusive father, poet, biography, based on play or musical, family relationships, church, free will, overbearing father, pre-code, self confidence, father daughter conflict, overprotective father, domineering father, literary figure, loss of legs, father daughter relationship, hopelessly in love, cruel father
- Cast: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Katharine Alexander, Ralph Forbes