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