Devotion
It tells ALL about those Brontë sisters!...They didn't dare call it love- they tried to call it Devotion
Director Curtis Bernhardt
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.
Trailer
Cast
Ida Lupino
Emily Brontë
Nancy Coleman
Anne Brontë
Ethel Griffies
Aunt Elizabeth Branwell
Micheline Cheirel
Mademoiselle Blanche (uncredited)
Eily Malyon
Mrs. Thornton's Friend at the Ball (uncredited)
Odette Myrtil
Mademoiselle Heger (uncredited)
Harry Cording
Coachman with Frightened Horses (uncredited)
Rita Lupino
Giselle (uncredited)
Olivia de Havilland
Charlotte Brontë
May Whitty
Lady Thornton
Crauford Kent
Club Member (uncredited)
Montagu Love
Rev. Brontë
Reginald Sheffield
Charles Dickens (uncredited)
Donald Stuart
Mr. Tripp (uncredited)
Arthur Kennedy
Branwell Brontë
Sydney Greenstreet
William Makepeace Thackeray
Victor Francen
Constantin Heger
Tanis Chandler
French Student (uncredited)
Elspeth Dudgeon
Elderly Reader of "Jane Eyre" (uncredited)
Doris Lloyd
Mrs. Ingraham (uncredited)
Edgar Norton
Club Member (uncredited)
Billy Bevan
Mr. Ames (uncredited)
Edmund Breon
Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
Wallis Clark
Mr. George Smith (uncredited)
David Clyde
Land Agent (uncredited)
Yorke Sherwood
Man (uncredited)
Leo White
Waiter (uncredited)
Paul Henreid
Rev. Arthur Nicholls
Jeffrey Sayre
Guest at Thornton's Ball (uncredited)
Florence Wix
Englishwoman (uncredited)