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Jane Eyre Overview:

Jane Eyre (1943) was a Drama - Black-and-white Film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Kenneth Macgowan and William Goetz.

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Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles star in “Jane Eyre”: The Ultimate Gothic Romance

By Stephen Reginald  on Jul 30, 2024 From Classic Movie Man

Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles star in “Jane Eyre”: The Ultimate Gothic Romance Jane Eyre (1943) is a gothic romance directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine. Based on the classic novel by Charlotte Bronte, the screenplay was written by John Houseman,... Read full article

Silver Screen Standards: Jane Eyre (1943)

By Jennifer Garlen on Nov 14, 2023 From Classic Movie Hub Blog

Silver Screen Standards: Jane Eyre (1943) I’ve spent the fall of 2023 swimming in the wake of Jane Eyre, both the original 1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë and the 1943 adaptation starring Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles. I’ve been teaching a class about the novel for one lifetime learning prog... Read full article

Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles star in “Jane Eyre”

By Stephen Reginald on Jan 9, 2021 From Classic Movie Man

Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles star in “Jane Eyre” Jane Eyre (1943) is a gothic romance directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine. Based on the classic novel by Charlotte Bronte, the screenplay was written by John Houseman, Aldous Huxley, and Robert St... Read full article

Jane Eyre (1943)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Feb 1, 2018 From 4 Star Films

Are you always drawn to the loveless and unfriended? ~ Edward Rochester When it’s deserved. ~ Jane Eyre I can still recall visiting the Bronte Parsonage, marveling at the fact that these sisters were able to have such a lasting impact on the world of literature — a world so often dominat... Read full article

Jane Eyre (1943)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Feb 1, 2018 From 4 Star Films

Are you always drawn to the loveless and unfriended? ~ Edward Rochester When it’s deserved. ~ Jane Eyre I can still recall visiting the Bronte Parsonage, marveling at the fact that these sisters were able to have such a lasting impact on the world of literature — a world so often dominat... Read full article

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Jane Eyre Quotes:

Edward Rochester: I put my requests in an absurd way. The fact is once and for all, I do not wish to treat you as an inferior, but I've baffled through varied experiences with many men of many nations and roved over the globe while you've spent your whole life with one set of people in one house. Don't you agree it gives me the right to be masterful and abrupt?
Jane Eyre: Do as you please, sir. You pay me 30 pounds a year for receiving your orders.
Edward Rochester: Are you always drawn to the loveless and unfriended?
Jane Eyre: When it's deserved.
[first lines]
Jane Eyre: [narrating] My name is Jane Eyre... I was born in 1820, a harsh time of change in England. Money and position seemed all that mattered. Charity was a cold and disagreeable word. Religion too often wore a mask of bigotry and cruelty. There was no proper place for the poor or the unfortunate. I had no father or mother, brother or sister. As a child I lived with my aunt, Mrs. Reed of Gateshead Hall. I do not remember that she ever spoke one kind word to me.
Jane Eyre: I should never mistake informality for insolence. One, I rather like; the other, no free-born person would submit to, even for a salary.
Edward Rochester: Humbug! Most free-born people would submit to anything for a salary.
Mrs. Reed: [introducing Jane] This, Mr. Brocklehurst, is the child in question. She is the daughter of my late sister's husband by an unfortunate union which we in the family prefer to forget. For some years she's lived in this house.
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Jane Eyre Facts
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onJune 5, 1944 with Orson Welles reprising his film role.
Joan Fontaine's sister Olivia de Havilland went on to portray Charlotte Bronte (the author of Jane Eyre), a couple years later in the film Devotion.
Director Stevenson was a member of the Bronte Society.
Orson Welles did enough work behind the scenes that the production company offered him a producer credit, which he turned down. Welles's official reason for this is a belief that a person who is not directing the film shouldn't be "just" a producer.
Composer Bernard Herrmann also wrote an operatic version of Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights."
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