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Jane Eyre

Name: Jane Eyre
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1943-12-24
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 6.929

★ 6,9 /10 (154 Votes)

1943 EN 97 min

Overview

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?

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Release date

24/12/1943

Votes

154

Popularity

16.1

A love story every woman would die a thousand deaths to live!

Genres

Drama Romance

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

97 min

Budget

$1,705,000

Revenue

$3,550,000

Orson Welles

Edward Rochester

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

Footman

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Alan Edmiston

Dealer

Jean Fenwick

Guest

Mary Forbes

Mrs. Eshton

Arthur Gould-Porter

Young Man

Ethel Griffies

Grace Poole

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Ronald Harris

John Reed

Brandon Hurst

Lowood School Trustee

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Charles Irwin

Auctioneer

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George Kirby

Old Gentleman (uncredited)

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Bud Lawler

Guest

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Gwendolyn Logan

Dowager

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Thomas Louden

Sir George Lynn

Moyna MacGill

Dowager

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Barry Macollum

Trustee

Eily Malyon

Mrs. Skatcher

Nelson McDowell

Lowood School Trustee

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Mary Menzies

Girl in orphanage scene at dinner table

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John Meredith

Guest

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Roseanne Murray

Guest

Tempe Pigott

Fortune Teller

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Nancy June Robinson

Girl

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Marion 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

Guest

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Dan Wallace

Guest

Frederick Worlock

Sam--Waiter at Inn

Eustace Wyatt

Dr. Carter

Original Soundtrack

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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 opening childhood, orphan Jane Eyre gains employment at Thornfield Hall as governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester. A Difference in class and life outlook, Jane and Rochester are by definition pola…

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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 (Orson Welles) at his remote, gothic Thornfield Hall. After an initially rocky start with her employer, things begin to thaw between them but is any of it as it seems...? Robert Stevenson has created…

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