zaterdag 14 april 2012

I received a reaction with this question: Why is it there is no mention of the movie circa 1949 entitled "Devotion"...about the Brontes?




My answer: I never heard of this movie before. So I was looking for information. It is nice to learn something new. Thank you for the question.

OnWikipedia/Devotion I read:



Devotion is a 1946 highly-fictionalized biographical film account of the lives
 of the Brontësisters starring Ida Lupino as Emily BrontëPaul Henreid
Olivia de Havilland as Charlotte Brontë, and Sydney Greenstreet as 
William Makepeace Thackeray. The movie featuresMontagu 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.[1]
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 
Reviews you can read here.
youtube.com you can see an original Trailer for the film DEVOTION [1943]


2 opmerkingen:

  1. Highly-fictionalized indeed. It's not Bronte fiction or even Bronte fantasy , it's Bronte sausage lol
    They have Emily and Charlotte both in love with Mr. Nicholls and Charlotte easily concurs London society!

    However Ida Lupino's portrait of Emily is so touching , it's well worth watching imo

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  2. The whole movie is currently posted on You Tube

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNRFq4BvJB4

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