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

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  Orson Welles
  Edward Rochester

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  Joan Fontaine
  Jane Eyre

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  Margaret O'Brien
  Adele Varens

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  Peggy Ann Garner
  Jane Eyre (younger)

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  John Sutton
  Dr. Rivers

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  Sara Allgood
  Bessie

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  Henry Daniell
  Henry Brocklehurst

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  Agnes Moorehead
  Mrs. Reed

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  Aubrey Mather
  Colonel Dent

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  Edith Barrett
  Mrs. Fairfax

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  Barbara Everest
  Lady Ingram

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  Hillary Brooke
  Blanche Ingram

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  Elizabeth Taylor
  Helen Burns

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  Billy Bevan
  Bookie (uncredited)

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  Adele Jergens
  Woman at Party (uncredited)

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  Mae Marsh
  Leah (uncredited)

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  Erskine Sanford
  Mr. Briggs (uncredited)

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  John Abbott
  Mason