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