''Jane Eyre'' is a 1943 American film adaptation of

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's 1847 novel of the same name, released by

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. It was directed by

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and produced by the uncredited

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and

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; Welles also stars in the film as

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, with

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playing the title character. The screenplay was written by John Houseman,

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, and director Robert Stevenson. The musical score was composed and conducted by

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, and the cinematography was by George Barnes.

Plot

Orphaned, unloved, and unwanted ten-year-old Jane Eyre lives with her cruel, selfish, uncaring maternal aunt via marriage, Mrs. Reed of Gateshead Hall, and her spoiled, bullying son. Jane is ecstatic when Mrs. Reed, eager to be rid of her, arranges for Jane to be sent to Lowood Institution, a charity boarding school for young girls, run by the disciplinarian Mr. Brocklehurst. Based on what Mrs. Reed has told him, Mr. Brocklehurst labels Jane a liar in front of her schoolmates and orders her to stand on a stool for hours on her first day of attendance. She is comforted and befriended by another student, Helen Burns. Later, Jane protests when Brocklehurst orders that Helen's naturally curling hair be cut. Both are punished by being forced to walk circles in a courtyard during a downpour. Dr. Rivers, a sympathetic physician who periodically checks on the students, brings the girls inside, but it is too late for Helen, who dies that night. Ten years later, in 1840, twenty-year-old Jane turns down Brocklehurst's offer of a teaching position. She advertises for and accepts a job as governess for a young girl named Adèle. When Jane arrives at Thornfield, a gloomy, isolated mansion, she initially thinks her employer is Mrs. Fairfax, who is in fact the housekeeper for the absent master. Jane goes for a walk one night only to startle a horse into throwing and slightly injuring its rider, Edward Rochester—who she doesn't realize is her employer. When Jane arrives back at Thornfield, she discovers this fact, and Rochester calls her into his library to interview her. His brusque manner contrasts with her quiet, gentle demeanor, and he finally dismisses her with the wish that she will enjoy her stay there. That night, Jane is awakened by strange laughter. She investigates, and discovers that Rochester's bed curtains are on fire. She rouses the sleeping man and they extinguish the fire without rousing anyone. Rochester bids her wait while he goes to another wing of the house, where mysterious seamstress Grace Poole keeps to herself. When he returns, he tells Jane nothing other than that the matter is under control. The next morning, he leaves Thornfield. A winter and spring go by before he returns with a large group of guests. Jane is greatly saddened when Mrs. Fairfax discloses that everyone expects Rochester to marry the vivacious and snobbish Blanche Ingram. However, Rochester confides to Jane his conviction that Blanche is attracted only by his wealth. When a man named Richard Mason of

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, arrives at Thornfield, Jane sees that Rochester is disturbed. That night, a pained scream awakens everyone. Rochester assures his guests it is just a servant's reaction to a nightmare, but after he sends them back to their rooms, he has Jane secretly tend to a bleeding Mason in the tower while he fetches a doctor. Behind her, a locked wooden door rattles with someone trying to get out, but Rochester orders Jane to ignore everything she sees or hears. Rochester has the doctor take Mason away. Rochester has a private conversation with Blanche, in which he bluntly asserts that she is a gold digger. Offended, she and the other guests leave. Unaware of this development, Jane broaches the topic of her future employment elsewhere after Rochester gets married, and confesses that she does not want to leave Rochester. In response, Rochester reveals that he loves her and not Blanche, and proposes marriage to her, which she accepts. During the wedding ceremony, an attorney intervenes and declares that Rochester has a wife by the name of Bertha Antonietta Mason, who is mentally ill and deranged. This is confirmed by Mason, Rochester's brother-in-law. Rochester calls off the marriage ceremony and takes Jane and Mason back to Thornfield to reveal Bertha, who is insane to the point of animalistic behavior, and lives in a tower cell guarded by Grace Poole. Rochester explains to Jane that his and Bertha's marriage was arranged when he was a teenager, and he did not truly know her. He was helpless as she drove herself mad, and has been searching for happiness with a real partner ever since, which caused him to become desperate when he fell for Jane. Though they admit they still love each other, Jane rejects Rochester's offer to stay as his mistress, and she determinedly departs Thornfield to preserve her principles. With her funds exhausted, Jane returns to Gateshead. She discovers that her aunt has suffered a stroke, caused by worry over the ruinous gambling habits of her son, who it is revealed has committed suicide. Mrs. Reed is happy to see Jane and they reconcile. After Mrs. Reed dies, Jane ponders what to do next, even considering working for Mr. Brocklehurst, when she hears Rochester's anguished voice calling her name during a storm. Jane returns to Thornfield and finds it in ruins. Mrs. Fairfax informs her that Bertha had escaped confinement, set the place on fire, and fled to the roof. While Fairfax took Adèle to safety, Rochester tried to rescue Bertha, but she jumped to her death. The burning staircase collapsed underneath Rochester, badly wounding him. With no other impediments, Jane reunites with Rochester, who is now blind from the fire. He tells her she should not waste her life with a crippled man like him, but she has made her choice to stay. They reaffirm their love and kiss passionately. Jane narrates that she married Rochester, and when their son was born, her husband's vision was sufficiently restored for him to see their child.

Cast

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as Adèle Verans *

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as young Jane Eyre * John Sutton as Dr. Rivers *

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as Bessie *

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as Mr. Brocklehurst *

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as Mrs. Reed *

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as Colonel Percy Dent *

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as Mrs. Fairfax *

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as Lady Ingram *

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as Blanche Ingram *

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as Grace Poole *

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as Mrs. Skatcher *

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as Mr. Woods *

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as Mr. Briggs *

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as Mason * Elizabeth Taylor as Helen Burns *

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as Leah *

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as Mrs. Eshton * Thomas Louden as Sir George Lynn *

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as Beadle * Ronald Harris as John Reed * Charles Irwin as Auctioneer *

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as Dowager *

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as Dowager *

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as Footman at Gateshead *

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as Guest *

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as Woman at party * Adele Jergens as Woman at party * Eustace Wyatt as Dr. Carter * Harry Allen as Guard * Charles Coleman as Guard * Billy Bevan as Bookie *

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as Fortune teller/Gypsy *

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as Footman *

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as Young Man * Brandon Hurst as Trustee

Production

Development under David O. Selznick

David O. Selznick hired John Houseman in February 1941 while Houseman was directing Philip Barry's play ''Liberty Bell''. Houseman's first assignment for the producer would be writing the script to ''Jane Eyre''. Houseman later said "I foolishly believed I would then produce the film because Selznick had just made ''Gone with the Wind'' and ''Rebecca'' and I believed he was going to take a rest from producing for a while and let me do the producing for his studio. This was one of the reasons I went to work for him. But I didn't know David Selznick! It was absolutely out of the question that he would dream of letting anybody else do anything."JOHN HOUSEMAN THE PRODUCER'S SIGNATURE INTERVIEW Handzo, Stephen. Film Comment; New York Vol. 11, Iss. 2, (Mar/Apr 1975): 18-21. Houseman says he started work on the screenplay during rehearsals for the

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's Broadway production of ''

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''. Robert Stevenson, a British director Selznick had under contract, was sent to New York City to work with him. After the play's March 24 premiere, Houseman and Stevenson flew to the West Coast and completed the screenplay over the next five weeks. According to Houseman, Stevenson did most of the work. "We finished it and presented it to our leader, only to discover that he had not the slightest intention of producing it," Houseman wrote.

also contributed to the screenplay, rendering the character of Mrs. Rochester unseen—assuring that she would be more menacing, and circumventing British censorship regulations on the depiction of madness. Other contributors to the script include DeWitt Bodeen and playwright Keith Winter. (Houseman - who had nothing to do with producing the final film - says when he saw the movie he was unhappy and asked for his name to be taken off, but they refused, so his credit stayed.)

Under 20th Century Fox

Selznick executive Daniel O'Shea began to offer the production as a package that included the services of Stevenson as director, Joan Fontaine as star, architect

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as production designer and George Barnes as cinematographer. The price was so "fabulous", Houseman wrote, that it took a year to find a buyer. In the midst of the war boom in November 1942, Selznick finally sold the package to

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at 20th Century Fox, which Goetz was running in the absence of

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. It was part of an overall deal where Selznick sold the rights to several projects - and talent he had attached. Other film projects included ''

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'' and '' Claudia'', and talent contracts with Stevenson, Alfred Hitchcock,

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, George Barnes, Stanley Cortez, Gene Kelly, Alan Marshall, Ingrid Bergman and Joan Fontaine. Of all the projects, ''Jane Eyre'' was the one closest to being realised, but Selznick had been frustrated by his ability to get the right leading man.

Under Orson Welles

Selznick had always wanted Orson Welles to play the role of Edward Rochester, but despaired of ever getting him because of his contract with RKO Pictures. When Welles was signed for ''Jane Eyre'' in December 1942, he was no longer with RKO, and was eager to earn money to purchase, develop and cut the footage he had shot for '' It's All True'', an ill-fated project for the U.S. government for which he had received no payment. He hired himself out as an actor—the first of many times that Welles would support his own film projects by acting in more conventional films. Welles was also struggling to retain his place in Hollywood as a producer, and he negotiated a role as the associate producer of ''Jane Eyre'' as well as top billing. He was paid $100,000—the same amount he received for his multiple responsibilities in '' Citizen Kane''. Welles had already adapted ''Jane Eyre'' twice for radio. ''

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'' broadcast of September 18, 1938, is lost because Welles used the acetate original to prepare the film and the recording was irreparably damaged. In early December 1942, Selznick wrote Goetz that he and Welles agreed on the importance of casting character actors who were new to motion pictures. He offered to be present at a casting meeting, and asked that Welles be there, as well—"because I know few people in the history of the business who have shown such a talent for exact casting, and for digging up new people."

players from stage and radio who appear in ''Jane Eyre'' include

, Eustace Wyatt and

; but the character roles generally went to familiar Hollywood performers, many of them with British stage credits.

Music

Welles and Selznick persuaded 20th Century Fox to hire

to compose the score for ''Jane Eyre''. When the film's co-producer with Welles,

, asked Herrmann what work he had done before, the composer angrily replied, "Well, I never hearda ''you'', either!" Herrmann based his score for ''Jane Eyre'' on the score he had written for " Rebecca" (December 9, 1938), the first episode of Welles's radio series, '' The Campbell Playhouse''. Alfred Newman, head of the Fox music department, admired Herrmann's work for RKO and gave him the rare privilege of conducting his own score—the first of many that Herrmann wrote for the studio.

Filming

''Jane Eyre'' was in production from February 3 until mid-April 1943. On April 8, ''

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'' noted that Welles would receive an onscreen credit as associate producer. In an April 17 memo to Goetz, which he blind-copied to Stevenson, Selznick protested that such a credit would be unfair to the director, "who pretty clearly took up the responsibility of producer where I left off."

You know as well as I do that Orson is such a personality that if he is credited as a producer, Stevenson's credit is likely to degenerate into something of a stooge status, as has occurred with
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on '' Journey into Fear''—and, mind you, on ''Journey into Fear'', Orson chose not even to have his own name appear in connection with the production ...

Three months later, in a letter to 20th Century Fox, a Selznick attorney agreed to Welles receiving a producer credit if he wanted it:

We have only just learned that Mr. Welles did a great deal more producing on the picture than we had previously known. We have been informed by people from your studio that Mr. Welles worked on the sets, changes in the script, in casting, among other things, and that he had charge of the editing ...

Although the associate producer credit was stated in his contract, Welles chose to waive it. "Certainly I did a lot more than a producer ought to, but Stevenson didn't mind that," he later said, adding that they got along very well on the picture. "And I don't want to take credit away from him, all of which he deserves." No producer credit appears on the screen or in the Screen Achievement Records Bulletin of the

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Release

''Jane Eyre'' premiered in New York City February 4, 1944, and in Los Angeles six days later, February 10, 1944. Although the film had its British premiere in late December 1943, it bears a 1944 U.S. copyright in the screen credits and it is often considered a 1944 picture.

Home media

* 1993: Fox Video, VHS (1247), , 1993 * 2007: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Region 1 DVD, UPC 024543425748, 2007.
Special features theatrical trailer and production stills; audio commentary by Joseph McBride and Margaret O'Brien; audio commentary by Nick Redman, Steven C. Smith and Julie Kirgo; isolated music track; " Know Your Ally: Britain", directed by Robert Stevenson; "Locked in the Tower: The Men Behind ''Jane Eyre''" (2006), written and directed by John Cork, with commentary by Scott McIsaac,

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, Bob Thomas, Hugh Stevenson,

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and Ursula Henderson. * 2013: Twilight Time, Screen Archives Entertainment, Blu-ray Disc (limited edition of 3,000), November 12, 2013. Includes special features in 2007 DVD release. Critic

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wrote, "

fans will be interested in the film's isolated 'M&E' (music and sound effects) track, which makes this disc a dynamite soundtrack experience as well."

Notes

References

External links

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Review at JaneEyre.net

1944 ''Jane Eyre'' Trailer, Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine
Streaming audio
"Jane Eyre"
(March 31, 1940) on '' The Campbell Playhouse'', with Orson Welles and

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"Jane Eyre"
(June 28, 1946) on ''

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'', with Orson Welles and

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(Indiana University Bloomington)
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