Adaptations of Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre, the 1847 novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, has frequently been adapted for film, radio, television, and theatre, and has also inspired a number of rewritings and reinterpretations.
Silent films
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- 1910: Jane Eyre, starring Irma Taylor (Jane), Marie Eline (Young Jane), and Frank Hall Crane (Rochester)[1][2]
- 1914: Jane Eyre, starring Lisbeth Blackstone, Dallas Tyler, Harrish Ingraham, and John Charles[2]
- 1914: Jane Eyre, directed by Frank Hall Crane, starring Ethel Grandin (Jane) and Irving Cummings (Rochester)
- 1915: Jane Eyre, starring Louise Vale[3]
- 1915: The Castle of Thornfield, produced in Italy
- 1918: Woman and Wife, adapted by Paul West, directed by Edward José, starring Alice Brady[4]
- 1921: Jane Eyre, directed by Hugo Ballin, starring Norman Trevor and Mabel Ballin[5]
- 1926: Orphan of Lowood, produced in Germany, directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Sound films
- 1934: Jane Eyre, starring Colin Clive and Virginia Bruce[6]
- 1943: I Walked with a Zombie, a Val Lewton horror movie loosely based on Jane Eyre, starring Tom Conway and Frances Dee[7]
- 1943: Jane Eyre, screenplay by John Houseman and Aldous Huxley, starring Orson Welles (Rochester), Joan Fontaine (Jane), Agnes Moorehead (Mrs. Reed), Margaret O'Brien (Adele), Peggy Ann Garner (Young Jane), and Elizabeth Taylor (Helen Burns).[8]
Fontaine also starred in Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 film Rebecca, based upon the Daphne du Maurier novel influenced by Jane Eyre.[9] - 1952: Sangdil (also known as Jane Eyre), an Indian Hindi-language version directed by R. C. Talwar, starring Madhubala.[10]
- 1956: The Orphan Girl, from Hong Kong[11]
- 1962: The Man I Love, from Egypt, directed by Hussein Hilmy El Mohandes and starring Magda al Sabahi and Yehia Chahine
- 1963: El Secreto (English: "The Secret"), released in Mexico[12]
- 1968: Bedi Bandavalu, Indian Kannada-language film adaptation directed by C. Srinivasan, starring Chandrakala and Kalyan Kumar in the lead roles.
- 1970: Jane Eyre, starring George C. Scott and Susannah York; released in theatres in Europe but direct-to-TV in the U.S. in 1971[13]
- 1972: Shanti Nilayam, an Indian adaptation in Tamil directed by G.S. Mani, starring Kanchana[14]
- 1972: Shanti Nilayam, an Indian adaptation in Telugu directed by C. Vaikuntarama Sastry, starring Anjali Devi
- 1996: Jane Eyre, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring William Hurt (Rochester), Charlotte Gainsbourg (Jane), Elle Macpherson (Blanche Ingram), Joan Plowright (Mrs. Fairfax), Anna Paquin (Young Jane), Fiona Shaw (Mrs. Reed), and Geraldine Chaplin (Miss Scatcherd)[15]
- 1997: Jane Eyre, directed by Robert Young, starring Ciarán Hinds and Samantha Morton[16]
- 2011: Jane Eyre, directed by Cary Fukunaga, starring Mia Wasikowska (Jane), Michael Fassbender (Rochester), and Judi Dench (Mrs. Fairfax)[17]
Radio
- 1938: The Mercury Theatre on the Air, 18 September 1938, with Orson Welles and music by Bernard Herrmann; the acetate recording was irreparably damaged by its use in preparing the 1943 motion picture[18]: 91
- 1940: The Campbell Playhouse, 31 March 1940, with Orson Welles and Madeleine Carroll[19][20]
- 1941: The Screen Guild Theater, 2 March 1941, with Brian Aherne and Bette Davis[21][22]
- 1943: The Weird Circle, 26 December 1943, in a half-hour adaptation using almost none of the novel's original dialogue and with no cast credits[23]
- 1944: The Philco Radio Hall of Fame, 13 February 1944, an "impression" by Joan Fontaine (20:40–32:20)[24][25]
- 1944: The Lux Radio Theatre, 5 June 1944, with Orson Welles and Loretta Young[26]
- 1944: Matinee Theater, 3 December 1944, with Victor Jory and Gertrude Warner[27][28]
- 1946: The Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air, 28 June 1946, adapted by Norman Corwin, with Orson Welles and Alice Frost[29]
- 1948: The Lux Radio Theatre, 14 June 1948, with Ingrid Bergman and Robert Montgomery[26][30]
- 1949: NBC University Theatre[31]
- 1994: Jane Eyre, British radio, January 1994, with Sophie Thompson and Ciarán Hinds[32]
- 1994 "BBC Radio Presents Jane Eyre" (Abridged) AudioBook (4 audiocassettes); ISBN 9780553473971; Running Time: 240 minutes; Performance by Juliet Stevenson; Bantam Doubleday Dell; BBC Enterprises;[33]
- 2009: Jane Eyre, British radio, August 2009[34]
- 2016: Jane Eyre, BBC Radio 4 as ten 15-minute episodes, from 29 February 2016, with Amanda Hale and Tom Burke[35][36]
Television
- 1949: Studio One in Hollywood – Jane Eyre, 12 December 1949, with Charlton Heston and Mary Sinclair
- 1952: Studio One in Hollywood – Jane Eyre, 4 August 1952, with Kevin McCarthy and Katharine Bard
- 1956: Jane Eyre, a BBC series starring Stanley Baker and Daphne Slater[37][38]
- 1957: Jane Eyre, an NBC Matinee Theatre production starring Patrick Macnee and Joan Elan[39]
- 1957: Jane Eyre, an Italian television miniseries starring Raf Vallone and Ilaria Occhini[40]
- 1961: Jane Eyre, a TV movie directed by Marc Daniels starring Sally Ann Howes and Zachary Scott[41]
- 1963: Jane Eyre, a BBC series starring Richard Leech and Ann Bell.[42]
- 1970: Jane Eyre, starring George C. Scott and Susannah York; direct-to-TV in the U.S. but given theatrical release in Europe (also listed above)
- 1971: Jane Eyre, part of Novela (TVE), starring María Luisa Merlo as Jane and Rafael Arcos as Rochester,[43] there are 15 episodes total with a run time of 372min total.[44]
- 1972: Jana Eyrová, produced by Czechoslovak television, starring Marta Vančurová (Jane) and Jan Kačer (Rochester)[45]
- 1973: Jane Eyre, a BBC series starring Sorcha Cusack (Jane), Michael Jayston (Rochester), Juliet Waley (Young Jane), and Tina Heath (Helen Burns); much of the dialogue is taken directly from the original novel[46]
- 1978: Telenovela – Ardiente secreto (English: The Impassioned Secret), a 20-part serial novel broadcast in Mexico[47]
- 1982: BBC Classics Presents: Jane Eyrehead, a parody by SCTV starring Andrea Martin (Jane Eyrehead), Joe Flaherty (Rochester), John Candy, Eugene Levy and Martin Short[48]
- 1983: Jane Eyre, a BBC series starring Zelah Clarke (Jane), Timothy Dalton (Rochester), Sian Pattenden (Young Jane) and Colette Barker (Helen Burns),[49] directed by Julian Charles Becket Amyes[50]
- 1995: Persistence of Vision (Star Trek: Voyager)
- 1996: Ruk Diow Kong Jenjira, a Thai TV drama on Channel 3, starring Willie McIntosh and Sirilak Pongchoke.[51]
- 1997: Jane Eyre, an ITV film starring Ciarán Hinds and Samantha Morton[52]
- 2006: Jane Eyre, a BBC series starring Ruth Wilson (Jane), Georgie Henley (Young Jane), and Toby Stephens (Rochester)[53]
- 2007: Kula Kumariya, a Sri Lankan teledrama screened on Swarnavahini, directed by Bermin Lylie Fernando, starring Ravindra Randeniya (Mr. Edward Daraniyagala) and Anarkali Akarsha (Suwimali)[54]
