A love story every woman would die a thousand deaths to live!
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 meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. 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 Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
- 6.9
- 1943
- Released
- 1h 37m
Joan Fontaine
Jane Eyre
Margaret O'Brien
Adele Varens
Peggy Ann Garner
Jane Eyre (younger)
John Sutton
Dr. Rivers
Sara Allgood
Bessie
Henry Daniell
Henry Brocklehurst
Agnes Moorehead
Mrs. Reed
Aubrey Mather
Colonel Dent
Edith Barrett
Mrs. Fairfax
Barbara Everest
Lady Ingram
Hillary Brooke
Blanche Ingram
Elizabeth Taylor
Helen Burns
Billy Bevan
Bookie (uncredited)
Adele Jergens
Woman at Party (uncredited)
Mae Marsh
Leah (uncredited)
Erskine Sanford
Mr. Briggs (uncredited)
John Abbott
Mason
Harry Allen
Guard
Ted Billings
Townsman
Ruth Brady
Woman at Party
Colin Campbell
Proprietor
David Clyde
Guard on Coach from Lowood
Charles Coleman
Guard on Coach to Lowood
Alec Craig
FootmanAlan Edmiston
Dealer
Jean Fenwick
Guest
Mary Forbes
Mrs. Eshton
Arthur Gould-Porter
Young Man
Ethel Griffies
Grace PooleRonald Harris
John Reed
Brandon Hurst
Lowood School TrusteeCharles Irwin
AuctioneerGeorge Kirby
Old Gentleman (uncredited)Bud Lawler
GuestGwendolyn Logan
DowagerThomas Louden
Sir George Lynn
Moyna MacGill
DowagerBarry Macollum
Trustee
Eily Malyon
Mrs. Skatcher
Nelson McDowell
Lowood School TrusteeMary Menzies
Girl in orphanage scene at dinner tableJohn Meredith
GuestRoseanne Murray
Guest
Tempe Pigott
Fortune TellerNancy June Robinson
GirlMarion Rosamond
Guest
Billie Seward
Woman at Party
Yorke Sherwood
Beadle
Ivan F. Simpson
Mr. Woods - the Minister
Gerald Oliver Smith
Footman at Gateshead
Betta St. John
Girl
Leslie Vincent
GuestDan Wallace
Guest
Frederick Worlock
Sam--Waiter at Inn
Eustace Wyatt
Dr. Carter
Released
en
$1,705,000.00
$3,550,000.00
- #based on novel or book
- #love triangle
- #riding accident
- #yorkshire
- #orphan
- #moor (terrain)
- #gothic
- #discipline
- #governess
- #19th century
Reviews
Undoubtedly my favourite Brontë story, and amongst the best adaptations of period drama you could ever wish to see. Joan Fontaine is superb in the title role, a girl forced into a brutal orphanage following the death of her father. After many years of abuse at the hands of the monstrous "Brocklehurst" (Henry Daniell) she finds a post as a governess to the daughter of the reclusive Edward Rochester
Are you always drawn to the loveless and unfriended? Jane Eyre is directed by Robert Stevenson who co-adapts the screenplay with John Houseman, Aldous Huxley and Henry Koster. Based on the Charlotte Brontë novel of the same name, it stars Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine and Peggy Ann Garner. Music is scored by Bernard Herrmann and George Barnes is the cinematographer. After a harsh and eye openi