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Devotion is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Ann Harding and Leslie Howard based on the 1930 Pamela Wynne novel A Little Flat in the Temple.Its plot involves a woman who disguises herself and gains employment in the home of the man she loves.
Devotion 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.
Promotional still with Conchita Montenegro. In 1931, Leslie Howard was new to Hollywood, having only appeared in two films, Outward Bound (1930) and Devotion (1931). In the spring of 1931, he was filming Never the Twain Shall Meet, A Free Soul with Norma Shearer and Clark Gable, and Five and Ten with Marion Davies—shooting one movie in the morning and another in the afternoon. [3]
Delevanti had a career as an actor on the English stage and, after his emigration to the United States in 1921, performed on the American stage throughout the 1920s. His first film appearance was in Devotion (1931). In 1938 he appeared in Red Barry for director Ford Beebe, who would later marry Delevanti's daughter, Kitty.
Jonathan Majors and Glen Powell forge a strong friendship in 'Devotion,' a spirited war story about the Navy's first Black pilot.
The Lady Refuses is a 1931 American pre-Code melodrama film, directed by George Archainbaud, from a screenplay by Wallace Smith, based on an original story by Guy Bolton and Robert Milton. It stars Betty Compson as a destitute young woman on the verge of becoming a prostitute, who is hired by a wealthy man to woo his ne'er-do-well son away from ...
First published as a serial in Black Mask magazine in 1930, it then was collected in 1931 (in London; the American edition followed 3 months later). It tells the story of a gambler and racketeer , Ned Beaumont, whose devotion to Paul Madvig, a crooked political boss , leads him to investigate the murder of a local senator's son as a potential ...
Westward Passage is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Robert Milton and starring Ann Harding, Laurence Olivier, ZaSu Pitts and Irving Pichel. [2] The screenplay concerns a woman who falls in love and marries, but soon discovers how unpleasant her new husband is. [3]