Jane Eyre

...five years later in 1948. In between, Welles found work as an actor in other directors' films. He starred in the 1943 film adaptation of Jane Eyre '', trading credit as associate producer for top billing over Joan Fontaine. He also had a...

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...version of the novel. Tagline: A Love Story Every Woman would Die a Thousand Deaths to Live! 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,...

In this article: Orson Welles, Gothic novel, Charlotte Bronte, Robert Stevenson, John Houseman, Mercury Theatre on the Air, and Kenneth Macgowan

...Academy Award for Best Special Effects for the action/adventure movie Reap the Wild Wind (1942 ). He was production designer of the drama Jane Eyre '' (1944 ), and of the war drama ''Since You Went Away (1944 ) . Pereira was also the...

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He married Frances Howard sometime after the death of her first husband Samuel Goldwyn and they later divorced. Stevenson's widow, Ursula Henderson, appeared as herself in the documentary Locked in the Tower: The Men behind Jane Eyre in 2007.

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...military show finale of Thousands Cheer. She played a young French girl, and spoke and sang all her dialogue with a French accent, in Jane Eyre '' (1944). Arguably her most memorable role was as "Tootie" in ''Meet Me in St. Louis...

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...War II, he appeared in one of his most memorable film roles, as the cruel Henry Brocklehurst in Jane Eyre '', opposite Joan Fontaine who played Eyre. In the 1950s and 60s, he did much television, and memorably appeared as the malevolent Dr....

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...has a certain innocence, a certain old-fashioned quality about it," she said. "The structure is still similar to 'Wuthering Heights' or 'Jane Eyre'." If there's one thing that certainly has changed, it's the sex. There's a whole lot more of...

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