Jane Eyre

Film and Television Adaptations

Jane Eyre has engendered numerous adaptations http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0111576/.

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• 1996: Jane Eyre, directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring William Hurt as Rochester, Charlotte Gainsbourg as Jane, supermodel Elle Macpherson as Blanche Ingram, Anna Paquin as the young Jane, and Geraldine Chaplin as Miss Scatcherd.
• 1983: Jane Eyre, with Timothy Dalton as Rochester.
• 1970: Jane Eyre, starring George C. Scott as Rochester and Susannah York as Jane.
• 1944: Jane Eyre, with a screenplay by John Houseman and Aldous Huxley. It features Orson Welles as Rochester, Joan Fontaine as Jane and a very young (and uncredited) Elizabeth Taylor as Helen Burns.

Four versions appeared in Hollywood in 1910, 1914a & 1914b, and 1921 during the Silent film era. In addition, Jane Eyre was the basis for the two silents, The Castle of Thornfield (1915) and Woman and Wife (1918). It was also released in 1926 in Germany as the silent film Waise von Lowood, Die (Orphan of Lowood). The first Hollywood talkie or Sound film version of the novel was released in 1934.

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Hollywood - Silent film - Germany - Sound film

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Several more versions appeared on British and American television in 1946, 1956, 1961, 1963, and 1973. It was released in 1956 in Hong Kong as Mei gu or The Orphan Girl. It was also released in Mexico first in 1963 as El Secreto and later in 1978 as Ardiente Secreto.

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Hong Kong - Mexico

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