But they are forbidden connubial happiness when it is revealed that Rochester is still married to a gibbering lunatic whom he is forced to keep locked in his attic. Under Jane's gentle influence, Rochester drops his forbidding veneer, going so far as to propose marriage to Jane. But Jane's employer, the brooding, tormented Edward Rochester (Orson Welles), terrifies the prim young governess. Her little charge, French-accented Adele (Margaret O'Brien), is pleasant enough. After several harrowing years in an orphanage, where she was placed by a supercilious relative for exhibiting the forbidden trait of 'wilfulness', Jane Eyre (Joan Fontaine) secures work as a governess. 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.
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