Director Robert Stevenson collaborated with novelist Aldous Huxley and theatrical-producer John Houseman on the screenplay for this 1944 adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s gothic romance Jane Eyre. After several harrowing years in an orphanage, where she was placed by a supercilious relative for exhibiting the forbidden trait of “willfulness,” Jane Eyre (Joan Fontaine) secures work as a governess.

• Jane Eyre (1943)
• Robert Stevenson
• Orson Welles
• Joan Fontaine
• Margaret OBrien
• Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation