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Devotion is a american film of genre Drama directed by Edward Chodorov released in USA on 20 april 1946 with Olivia de Havilland
Devotion (1946)
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Add to a movie listDevotion is a 1946 American biographical film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Olivia de Havilland, and Sydney Greenstreet. Based on a story by Theodore Reeves, the film is a highly fictionalized account of the lives of the Brontë sisters. The movie features Montagu Love's last role; he died almost three years before the film's delayed release.
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The story takes place in the early 1800s, when the Brontë sisters Charlotte and Anne have made the decision to leave their family - their sister Emily, their brother Branwell, their aunt and their vicar father - to take positions as governesses in other families. The two sisters long to break free from their tedious life and get experiences from the outside world, to prepare for their careers as writers.Actors
Olivia de Havilland
(Charlotte Brontë)
Ida Lupino
(Emily Brontë)
Paul Henreid
(Rev. Arthur Nicholls)
Sydney Greenstreet
(William Makepeace Thackeray)
Nancy Coleman
(Anne Brontë)
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