Devotion

Devotion is a 1946 highly-fictionalized biographical film account of the lives of the Brontë sisters starring Ida Lupino as Emily Brontë, Paul Henreid, Olivia de Havilland as Charlotte Brontë, and Sydney Greenstreet as William Makepeace Thackeray. The movie features Montagu Love's last role; he died almost three years before the film's delayed release. Devotion was filmed between November 11, 1942 and mid-February 1943, but was delayed to be screened until April 5, 1946 at the Strand Theater in Manhattan, due to a law suit by Olivia de Havilland against Warner Brothers. De... Havilland successfully sued her studio to terminate her contract without providing the studio an extra six months to make up for her time on suspension. It proved a landmark case for the industry. In the review of ‘’Devotion’’ in the ‘’New York Times’’, Brosley Crowther wrote: “The Warners have simplified matters to an almost irreducible extreme and have found an explanation for the Brontës in Louisa May Alcott terms. They have visioned sombrous Emily, the author of Wuthering Heights, and Charlotte, the writer of Jane Eyre, as a couple of 'little women" with a gift.
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