
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?
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

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
Alan Edmiston
Dealer

Jean Fenwick
Guest

Mary Forbes
Mrs. Eshton

Arthur Gould-Porter
Young Man

Ethel Griffies
Grace Poole
Ronald Harris
John Reed

Brandon Hurst
Lowood School Trustee
Charles Irwin
Auctioneer
George Kirby
Old Gentleman (uncredited)
Bud Lawler
Guest
Gwendolyn Logan
Dowager
Thomas Louden
Sir George Lynn

Moyna MacGill
Dowager
Barry Macollum
Trustee

Eily Malyon
Mrs. Skatcher

Nelson McDowell
Lowood School Trustee
Mary Menzies
Girl in orphanage scene at dinner table
John Meredith
Guest
Roseanne Murray
Guest

Tempe Pigott
Fortune Teller
Nancy June Robinson
Girl
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
Dan Wallace
Guest

Frederick Worlock
Sam--Waiter at Inn

Eustace Wyatt
Dr. Carter
Crew

Robert Stevenson
Director, Screenplay

John Houseman
Screenplay

Aldous Huxley
Screenplay

Charlotte Brontë
Novel
Walter Thompson
Editor
George Barnes
Director of Photography
William Goetz
Producer
Kenneth Macgowan
Producer

Orson Welles
Associate Producer
William L. Pereira
Production Design
René Hubert
Costume Design
Guy Pearce
Makeup Artist
W.D. Flick
Sound
Roger Heman Sr.
Sound
Fred Sersen
Special Effects

Bernard Herrmann
Original Music Composer
Thomas Little
Set Decoration
Ross Dowd
Assistant Set Decoration
Barbara Keon
Assistant Script
James Basevi
Art Direction
Wiard B. Ihnen
Art Direction
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