Devotion
Devotion (1931) is an 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.
Plot
Shirley Mortimer is the second daughter of a wealthy London family, who view her as plain and treat her as little more than a servant. When her father's friend David Trent visits, she becomes smitten. Upon hearing that he and his son are in need of a new domestic, she disguises herself as an elderly matron, Mrs. Halifax, and begins to work for him. He is a defense attorney, currently defending a man, painter Norman Harrington, on the charge of murdering his wife.
More details
author | Horace Jackson |
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contentLocation | London |
director | Robert Milton |
editor | Daniel Mandell |
genre | drama |
keywords | defense attorney estranged wife even family home hear meet young woman |
musicBy | Arthur Lange |
producer | Charles R. Rogers |
productionCompany | RKO Radio Pictures |
publisher | RKO Studios |
theme | romantic drama |