Jane Eyre (1943)
A love story every woman would die a thousand deaths to live!
97 min
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?
- Release date
- December 24, 1943
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $1,705,000
- Box office
- $3,550,000
Trailer
Cast
- Orson Welles as Edward Rochester
- Joan Fontaine as Jane Eyre
- Margaret O'Brien as Adele Varens
- Peggy Ann Garner as Jane Eyre as a Child
- 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
Crew
- Robert Stevenson · Director
- Charlotte Brontë · Writer
- Aldous Huxley · Writer
- Robert Stevenson · Writer
- John Houseman · Writer
- Bernard Herrmann · Composer
- George Barnes · Cinematographer
- Walter Thompson · Editor
- William L. Pereira · Production designer