Devotion
Drama
It tells ALL about those Brontë sisters!...They didn't dare call it love- they tried to call it Devotion
In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.
1946-04-05
en
Cast
Director
Curtis Bernhardt
Ida Lupino as Emily Brontë
Paul Henreid as Rev. Arthur Nicholls
Olivia de Havilland as Charlotte Brontë
Sydney Greenstreet as William Makepeace Thackeray
Nancy Coleman as Anne Brontë
Arthur Kennedy as Branwell Brontë
May Whitty as Lady Thornton
Victor Francen as Constantin Heger
Montagu Love as Rev. Brontë
Ethel Griffies as Aunt Elizabeth Branwell
Billy Bevan as Mr. Ames (uncredited)
Edmund Breon as Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
Tanis Chandler as French Student (uncredited)
Micheline Cheirel as Mademoiselle Blanche (uncredited)
Wallis Clark as Mr. George Smith (uncredited)
David Clyde as Land Agent (uncredited)
Harry Cording as Coachman with Frightened Horses (uncredited)
Elspeth Dudgeon as Elderly Reader of "Jane Eyre" (uncredited)
Forrester Harvey as Hoggs (uncredited)
Crauford Kent as Club Member (uncredited)
Doris Lloyd as Mrs. Ingraham (uncredited)
Rita Lupino as Giselle (uncredited)
Eily Malyon as Mrs. Thornton's Friend at the Ball (uncredited)
Odette Myrtil as Mademoiselle Heger (uncredited)
Edgar Norton as Club Member (uncredited)
Jeffrey Sayre as Guest at Thornton's Ball (uncredited)
Reginald Sheffield as Charles Dickens (uncredited)
Yorke Sherwood as Man (uncredited)
Donald Stuart as Mr. Tripp (uncredited)
Leo White as Waiter (uncredited)
Florence Wix as Englishwoman (uncredited)