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Jane Eyre
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
1943 · Directed by Robert Stevenson · 97 min · Drama · Romance · 10 frames
Tagline
A love story every woman would die a thousand deaths to live!
Crew
- Screenplay: Aldous Huxley, John Houseman, Robert Stevenson
- Cinematography: George Barnes
- Edited by: Walter Thompson
- Music: Bernard Herrmann
- Production design: William L. Pereira
- Produced by: William Goetz, Kenneth Macgowan
Cast
- Orson Welles as Edward Rochester
- Joan Fontaine as Jane Eyre
- Margaret O'Brien as Adele Varens
- Peggy Ann Garner as Jane Eyre (younger)
- John Sutton as Dr. Rivers
- Sara Allgood as Bessie
- Henry Daniell as Henry Brocklehurst
- Agnes Moorehead as Mrs. Reed
- Aubrey Mather as Colonel Dent
- Edith Barrett as Mrs. Fairfax
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: 20th Century Fox
- Budget: $1,705,000
- Box office: $3,550,000
- Themes: based on novel or book, love triangle, riding accident, yorkshire, orphan, moor (terrain), gothic, discipline, governess, 19th century
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