From Book To Film: The Book: Taking a look at Charlotte Brontë's Dark and Shadowy "Jane Eyre"...The Classic Film: Starring J.Fontaine and O.Welles...

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The film begins with a voice over from Jane Eyre (an original contribution by the screenwriters):

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 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.

Cast

• Joan Fontaine - Jane Eyre
• Orson Welles - Edward Rochester
• Peggy Ann Garner - Jane Eyre as a child
• Elizabeth Taylor - Helen Burns (uncredited)
• Edith Barrett - Mrs. Alice Fairfax
• Agnes Moorehead - Mrs. Reed
• Margaret O'Brien - Adele
• Sara Allgood - Bessie
• Henry Daniell - Henry Brocklehurst
• Hillary Brooke - Blanche Ingram

Jane Eyre (1944) is a classic film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name, made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by William Goetz, Kenneth Macgowan, and Orson Welles (uncredited).

The screenplay was by John Houseman, Aldous Huxley, Henry Koster, and Robert Stevenson, from the novel by Charlotte Brontë. The music score was by Bernard Herrmann and the cinematography by George Barnes.

The film stars Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, Peggy Ann Garner, Sara Allgood, Henry Daniell, Agnes Moorehead, John Sutton, with Betta St. John and Elizabeth Taylor making early, uncredited appearances.

• The film was acclaimed for its recreation of the Yorkshire Moors. It was actually filmed entirely in Hollywood on a heavily disguised sound stage. The long shadows and heavy fog, which added the air of a Gothic novel lacking in so many remakes, were rumored to have been the brainchild of Orson Welles. He was offered a producer's credit as thanks for his contribution but declined the offer, believing that a person who is not a director shouldn't be "just" a producer.

• This was the 7th film version of the novel...All Of This Information is Courtesy Of Wikipedia...

In addition to numerous stage presentations, Brontë's novel has been adapted for the screen several times, one of the earliest of which was produced by Thanhouser Film Corp. in 1910 in a one-reel version starring Marie Eline and Gloria Gallop. Lisbeth Blackstone and Dallas Tyler starred in the 1914 Whitman Features Co. version, and in 1918, Edward Jose directed Alice Brady and Elliott Dexter in Woman and Wife for Select Pictures. In 1921, Hugo Ballin Productions released their version of Jane Eyre, which was directed by Ballin and starred Norman Trevor and Mabel Ballin. The 1934 Monogram production was directed by Christy Cabanne and starred Virginia Bruce and Colin Clive. Ethel Griffies played "Grace Poole" in both the Monogram and Twentieth Century-Fox productions. Other versions of the story include a 1970 British production starring Susannah York and George C. Scott, and directed by Delbert Mann; a 1996 European production directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring William Hurt and Charlotte Gainsbourg; and a 1997 British television co-producion, starring Samantha Morton and Ciaran Hin

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