Devotion

Aspiring novelist Emily Bronte (Ida Lupino) at work, sister Charlotte (Olivia De Havilland) agonizing, as their rogue brother Branwell (Arthur Kennedy) is delivered home by Nicholls (Paul Henreid), just-arrived assistant to their clergyman father, in the loose literary bio-pic Devotion, 1946.

Prepared by their maiden aunt (Ethel Griffies), Bronte sisters Emily, Anne and Charlotte (Ida Lupino, Nancy Coleman, Olivia De Havilland) escorted to a dance by new local cleric Nicholls (Paul Henreid), standing in for their carousing brother (Arthur Kennedy), in Warner Bros.' Devotion, 1946.

Vignette introducing the Bronte' brother and sisters (Arthur Kennedy as Branwell, Nancy Coleman as Anne, Olivia De Havilland as Charlotte, Ida Lupino as Emily), two of whom wish to become governesses, in West Yorkshire, England ca. 1835, in the fanciful family biography Devotion, 1946.

The Bronte sisters and their brother fight personal demons in the film biography, Devotion (1946),with Ida Lupino & Olivia de Havilland.