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