#wimpole

[earlgreyandco]

i like to take him to fancy houses and pretend hes giving me a tour

[sophbun]

ave maria

[musicandoldmovies]

Remembering Maureen O'Sullivan on her birthday

In The Barretts of Wimpole Street

[ljblueteak]

“Michael [Cooper] talked Robert Fraser into putting a 45 rpm record-player under the dashboard in his car. They’d be dashing through Hyde Park blasting out Otis Redding or James Brown, heading for Ronnie Scott’s or Jane Asher’s.

Michael would take Robert and me to places where Robert Fraser was afraid to go even though he was a titled person, the son of a lord. He wouldn’t dream of going to Jane Asher’s unannounced, whereas Michael would say, ‘It’s cool, it’s cool’ and sure enough it would be--we’d be welcomed with open arms. It would be about 3 am and he’d bring in his Otis Redding tape or something and it would be OK”--Terry Southern in Blinds & Shutters

[coopmillandmarch]

Fredric March photographed for The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934).

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

TV GIRL AT HOME -- SWEATER GIRL FOR THE CAMERA.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a then age 17 Jane Asher (born April 5, 1946) English TV and film actress, photographed at her house on Wimpole Street, London, England, on July 9, 1963.

Sources: www.pinterest.com/pin/hayley-others--453456256241873181 (Pinterest 2x).

[byneddiedingo]

Norma Shearer and Charles Laughton in The Barretts of Wimpole Street (Sidney Franklin, 1934)

Cast: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Katharine Alexander, Ralph Forbes, Marion Clayton Anderson, Ian Wolfe, Ferdinand Munier, Una O'Connor, Leo G. Carroll. Screenplay: Ernest Vajda, Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart, based on a play by Rudolph Besier. Cinematography: William H. Daniels. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons, Film editing: Margaret Booth. Music: Herbert Stothart.

The Barretts of Wimpole Street displays Norma Shearer as queen of the MGM lot, taking on a role that had been associated with Katherine Cornell, who played Elizabeth Barrett in the 1931 Broadway production of Rudolf Besier's play and then toured the country with it. Irving Thalberg, the head of production at MGM, offered the role in the film version to Cornell, but she turned it down -- as she did all film offers. (Cornell reportedly was reluctant to have her performances recorded on film because she feared they would grow dated and ludicrous, as so many performances from the silent era had become.) The logical choice for the movie then became Shearer, Thalberg's wife, who was entering a new phase in her career: Having turned 30 in 1932, she was beginning to outgrow the more lively persona that she displayed in her earlier movies. Unfortunately for her reputation today, most of the films she began to make have effaced the earlier image: She seems distantly "respectable" in the later movies. The Barretts of Wimpole Street was one of her more popular vehicles, and although the film as a whole is stodgy, Shearer makes a credible transition from the oppressed invalid of the early part of the film to the defiant woman who elopes with her lover, Robert Browning (Fredric March), at the end. It helps that Charles Laughton hams it up wonderfully as Edward Moulton-Barrett, Elizabeth's father, who is determined to keep any of his eight children from marrying as long as he is alive. Although the Production Code forbade any explicit mention of either incest or sexual obsession, Laughton's performance makes it clear in the climactic scene not only that he is disturbed by his own sexuality and may have forced himself on his late wife, but also that he has incestuous feelings for Elizabeth. Her horror at this revelation precipitates her elopement with Browning.

[ludmilachaibemachado]

🌺 Jane pictured on her bicycle outside her home in Wimpole Street London, 4th April 1963🌺

Via @janeasherdaily on Instagram🌺

[jingle-bones]

Real life becomes reel life in the dramatisation of the courtship of poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Read my new review of The Barretts of Wimpole Street here:

[insidecroydon]

From a GP's on the High Street to hosting dinner for the King

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: An eminent and pioneering surgeon of the Victorian age, who performed operations on European monarchs and could command fees equivalent to £10m in modern-day values, began his medical career as a GP in Croydon. DAVID MORGAN traces the remarkable career of polymath Sir Henry Thompson Portrait of a polymath: Sir Henry Thompson, as painted by Milais in 1881 Discovering that…

[delightfullyatomicfest]

Alright, if they’re covering 1962-1969 (they’re probably not) and they’re focusing each film on a different Beatle, to stop it being repetitive it’s either a case of real focus on their non-Beatles life and / or focus on one time period for each of them specifically (they probably won’t).

So anyway this is my wild day one guess:

Ringo - 1962-3: joins the band, worrying that he’s not fitting in but meeting Mo, angst of not being on Love Me Do, hitting no 1, easy way in to introduce the other characters to the audience

John - 1964-5: Beatlemania, first US Tour, AHDN, disillusionment setting in

Paul - 1966-7: End of touring, pepper, artsy, cocaine, arrogance, Brian’s death, failure of MMT

George - 1968-69 Apple / breakup - growing confidence, India, great songs, lots of angst, ill mum, breaking down of relationship with Pattie, maybe a Bob Dylan guest appearance. End it with the last time all four were together so Abbey Road /The End, or Pattie’s birthday two days later.

[girlinthebrightbluejeans]

I've found that Wallace Wimpole's (Bill Thompson, also the voice of Droopy dog) voice makes my brain happy.

[beatlepaul4ever]

Outrage as Deep fake Paul escapes and rampages around Wimpole Street looking for deep fake Jane.

[achillean-archives]

Missing Pieces (1991)

[beatleswings]

JANE ASHER at her home in 57 Wimpole Street, London. 1964.

[centuriespast]

Diana Disarming Cupid: Elizabeth Dashwood (1741–1832), Duchess of Manchester, and Her Son George Montagu (1763–1772), Viscount Manderville Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) National Trust, Wimpole Hall