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20 April 1946 (USA)
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Acclaimed...THE GREATEST LOVE STORY OF THE YEAR! Tender! Endearing! more
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In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte vie for the affection of the Reverend Arthur Nichols...
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A rarely seen enjoyable film
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(Complete credited cast)| Ida Lupino | ... | Emily Bronte | |
| Paul Henreid | ... | The Reverend Arthur Nicholls | |
| Olivia de Havilland | ... | Charlotte Bronte | |
| Sydney Greenstreet | ... | William Makepeace Thackeray | |
| Nancy Coleman | ... | Anne Bronte | |
| Arthur Kennedy | ... | Branwell Bronte | |
| Dame May Whitty | ... | Lady Thornton | |
| Victor Francen | ... | Constantin Heger | |
| Montagu Love | ... | Reverend Bronte | |
| Ethel Griffies | ... | Aunt Branwell | |
| Edmund Breon | ... | Sir John Thornton | |
| Odette Myrtil | ... | Mme. Heger | |
| Doris Lloyd | ... | Mrs. Ingraham | |
| Marie De Becker | ... | Tabby | |
| Eily Malyon | ... | Mrs. Thornton's Friend at the Ball |
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USA:107 min
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Filmed between November 11, 1942 and mid-February 1943, the movie premiered on April 5, 1946 at the Strand Theater in Manhattan. The release had been delayed while Olivia de Havilland, after completing Government Girl (1943) on loan to RKO, successfully sued Warner Bros. to terminate her contract without providing the studio an extra six months to make up for her time on suspension.
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Crew or equipment visible: When Emily enters her brother's sickroom and doesn't completely shut its door, a hand and arm very obviously reaches out from outside the room and shuts it.
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Charlotte Bronte:
I know nothing. I understand nothing. And yet, I have dared to write 200,000 words about life!
[tosses manuscript on floor]
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[tosses manuscript on floor]
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Featured in Between Two Worlds: Erich Wolfgang Korngold (2001) (TV)
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Although not historically accurate, this is a very enjoyable romantic view of the Bronte sisters and their devotion to each other and to their drug addicted brother. I am surprised that it has not been shown as often as the overwrought versions of Jane Eyre and Wuthering heights which were made around that time.
The performances are excellent, even more so because they are quietly underplayed for the times. The attention to detail is good, except for the scene where Charlotte returned to find Emily on her deathbed but left the front door wide open! Growing up on the Yorkshire moors about 10 miles away from Haworth, I know that no one would ever leave the door open on a cold stormy night. I kept wanting to shout in Yorkshire dialect "Put t'wood in't hoile!" (Shut the door, in English)
The Bronte sisters have been the subject of vastly more scholarly print than their combined output, but this film skims over the heartbreak and hardship they endured. One has to see the bleakness of the Haworth parsonage and the moors to begin to grasp what it must have been like for them. Death was a constant companion, taking all of them away in their early adulthood. Death from drink, tubercolosis and in Charlotte's case, childbirth, were the norm for those who survived infancy. Their lives were bleak, but their imagination was rich.
Picky picky details aside, this films deserves to be shown more often.