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
Sydney Greenstreet
William Makepeace Thackeray
Paul Henreid
Rev. Arthur Nicholls
May Whitty
Lady Thornton
Ethel Griffies
Aunt Elizabeth Branwell
Micheline Cheirel
Mademoiselle Blanche (uncredited)
Harry Cording
Coachman with Frightened Horses (uncredited)
Yorke Sherwood
Man (uncredited)
Leo White
Waiter (uncredited)
Rita Lupino
Giselle (uncredited)
Odette Myrtil
Mademoiselle Heger (uncredited)
Jeffrey Sayre
Guest at Thornton's Ball (uncredited)
Edmund Breon
Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
Tanis Chandler
French Student (uncredited)
Olivia de Havilland
Charlotte Brontë
Arthur Kennedy
Branwell Brontë
Montagu Love
Rev. Brontë
Elspeth Dudgeon
Elderly Reader of "Jane Eyre" (uncredited)
Doris Lloyd
Mrs. Ingraham (uncredited)
Edgar Norton
Club Member (uncredited)
Nancy Coleman
Anne Brontë
Crauford Kent
Club Member (uncredited)
Florence Wix
Englishwoman (uncredited)
Ida Lupino
Emily Brontë
Victor Francen
Constantin Heger
Wallis Clark
Mr. George Smith (uncredited)
David Clyde
Land Agent (uncredited)
Eily Malyon
Mrs. Thornton's Friend at the Ball (uncredited)
Donald Stuart
Mr. Tripp (uncredited)
Billy Bevan
Mr. Ames (uncredited)
Reginald Sheffield
Charles Dickens (uncredited)