Jane Eyre

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?

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