Jane Eyre

Synopsis

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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Cast

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

Crew

Art

• Wiard B. Ihnen Art Direction
• James Basevi Art Direction
• William L. Pereira Production Design
• Thomas Little Set Decoration
• Ross Dowd Assistant Set Decoration

Camera

• George Barnes Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

• René Hubert Costume Design
• Guy Pearce Makeup Artist

Crew

• Fred Sersen Special Effects
• Barbara Keon Assistant Script

Directing

• Robert Stevenson Director

Editing

• Walter Thompson Editor

Production

• Orson Welles Associate Producer
• William Goetz Producer
• Kenneth Macgowan Producer

Sound

• Bernard Herrmann Original Music Composer
• Roger Heman Sr. Sound
• W.D. Flick Sound

Writing

• Aldous Huxley Screenplay
• Charlotte Brontë Novel
• John Houseman Screenplay
• Robert Stevenson Screenplay

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