Devotion
It tells ALL about those Brontë sisters!...They didn't dare call it love- they tried to call it Devotion
1946 | 107m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Curtis Bernhardt |
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| Writer: | Theodore Reeves, Keith Winter |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Apr 05, 1946 |
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| Director: | Curtis Bernhardt |
| Writer: | Theodore Reeves, Keith Winter |
| Genres: | Drama |
| Keywords | biography, historical figure, victorian england, sibling rivalry, sister sister relationship, female writer |
| Production Companies | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 (Update) Entered: Apr 15, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Ida Lupino | Emily Brontë |
| Paul Henreid | Rev. Arthur Nicholls |
| Olivia de Havilland | Charlotte Brontë |
| Sydney Greenstreet | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Nancy Coleman | Anne Brontë |
| Arthur Kennedy | Branwell Brontë |
| May Whitty | Lady Thornton |
| Victor Francen | Constantin Heger |
| Montagu Love | Rev. Brontë |
| Ethel Griffies | Aunt Elizabeth Branwell |
| Hartney J. Arthur | Man (uncredited) |
| Billy Bevan | Mr. Ames (uncredited) |
| Edmund Breon | Sir John Thornton (uncredited) |
| Tanis Chandler | French Student (uncredited) |
| Micheline Cheirel | Mademoiselle Blanche (uncredited) |
| Wallis Clark | Mr. George Smith (uncredited) |
| David Clyde | Land Agent (uncredited) |
| Harry Cording | Coachman with Frightened Horses (uncredited) |
| Howard Davies | Englishman (uncredited) |
| Frank Dawson | Club Member (uncredited) |
| Marie De Becker | Tabby (uncredited) |
| Elspeth Dudgeon | Elderly Reader of "Jane Eyre" (uncredited) |
| Forrester Harvey | Hoggs (uncredited) |
| P.J. Kelly | Shepherd (uncredited) |
| Crauford Kent | Club Member (uncredited) |
| Sonia Lefkova | Marie (uncredited) |
| Elayne Lima | French Student (uncredited) |
| Doris Lloyd | Mrs. Ingraham (uncredited) |
| Rita Lupino | Giselle (uncredited) |
| Eily Malyon | Mrs. Thornton's Friend at the Ball (uncredited) |
| John Meredith | Ted (uncredited) |
| Odette Myrtil | Mademoiselle Heger (uncredited) |
| Edgar Norton | Club Member (uncredited) |
| Sylvia Opert | French Student (uncredited) |
| Hilda Plowright | Elderly Woman (uncredited) |
| Jeffrey Sayre | Guest at Thornton's Ball (uncredited) |
| Irina Semochenko | French Student (uncredited) |
| Violet Seton | Mrs. Crump (uncredited) |
| Reginald Sheffield | Charles Dickens (uncredited) |
| Yorke Sherwood | Man (uncredited) |
| Geoffrey Steele | Man (uncredited) |
| Donald Stuart | Mr. Tripp (uncredited) |
| David Thursby | Farmer (uncredited) |
| Leo White | Waiter (uncredited) |
| Florence Wix | Englishwoman (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Ernest Haller | Director of Photography |
| Rudi Fehr | Editor |
| Curtis Bernhardt | Director |
| Erich Wolfgang Korngold | Original Music Composer |
| Don Siegel | Editorial Services |
| Hugo Friedhofer | Orchestrator |
| Theodore Reeves | Original Story |
| Robert M. Haas | Art Direction |
| John Holden | Special Effects |
| Jack Oakie | Special Effects |
| Rex Wimpy | Special Effects |
| Casey Roberts | Set Decoration |
| Milo Anderson | Costume Design |
| Perc Westmore | Makeup Artist |
| Keith Winter | Screenplay |
| Jesse Hibbs | Assistant Director |
| Stanley Jones | Sound |
| James Leicester | Editorial Services |
| Leo F. Forbstein | Music Director |
| Edward Chodorov | Additional Writing |
| James Vincent | Dialogue Coach |
| Simon Bucharoff | Orchestrator |
| Bernhard Kaun | Orchestrator |
| Leonid Raab | Orchestrator |
| Milan Roder | Orchestrator |
| Ernst Toch | Orchestrator |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Jack L. Warner | Executive Producer |
| Robert Buckner | Producer |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 3 |
| 2024 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 4 |
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| 2024 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 3 |
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| 2025 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
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Based (very) loosely on real events, this is quite an entertaining tale of two strong willed Brontë women - Charlotte (Olivia de Havilland) and Emily (Ida Lupino) and of their enthusiasm for local curate "Nicholls" (the rather decent but insipid Paul Henreid) and for getting their wonderfully imagin ... ative stories published. In that aspiration, they are joined by their sister Anne (Nancy Coleman) and all of this takes place as they must try and save their artist brother Bramwell (Arthur Kennedy) from a future at the bottom of a bottle. The cast and the writing deliver an engaging and authentic tale of family, a strong and close family that found itself struggling to satisfy the needs of its constituents - and as with many films set around this period, it demonstrates just how difficult it was for a woman to be given the opportunity to do just about anything that did not fit with her marital duties. There are a couple of scenes stolen by the avuncular Sydney Greenstreet's portrayal of William Makepeace Thackerey - whose "Vanity Fair" was contemporary with this timeframe - and by the end I felt I understood a little more of the complexities of this family and of the times. Well worth a watch.