Jane Eyre
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?
From the archive
The first sound adaptation of the Charlotte Bronte classic about a Victorian orphan who secures a governess position at mysterious Thornfield Hall and falls in love with her employer. Virginia Bruce ... Jane Eyre Colin Clive ... Edward Rochester Beryl Mercer ... Mrs. Fairfax David Torrence ... Mr. Brocklehurst Aileen Pringle ... Lady Blanche Ingram Edith Fellows ... Adele Rochester John Rogers ... Sam Poole Jean Darling ... Jane Eyre as a Child Lionel Belmore ... Lord Ingram Jameson Thomas ... Charles Craig Ethel Griffies ... Grace Poole Claire Du Brey ... Bertha Rochester William Burress ... Minister Joan Standing ... Daisy Richard Quine ... John Reed rest of cast listed alphabetically: Gretta Gould ... Miss Temple (uncredited) Anne Howard ... Georgianna Reed (uncredited) Olaf Hytten ... Jeweler (uncredited) Gail Kaye ... Mary Lane (uncredited) Edith Kingston ... Lady Ingram (uncredited) Desmond Roberts ... Dr. John Rivers (uncredited) Clarissa Selwynne ... Mrs. Reed (uncredited) Hylda Tyson ... Bessie (uncredited) William Wagner ... Halliburton (uncredited
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- Director
- Christy Cabanne
- Starring
- Virginia Bruce, Colin Clive, Beryl Mercer, David Torrence, Aileen Pringle, Edith Fellows, John Rogers, Jean Darling
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