An all-star cast; including Orson welles, Joan Fontaine, Agnes Moorhead and Elizabeth Taylor-breathes life into this enchanting 1944 version of Charlotte Bronte's gothic romance. After spending her childhood in an orphanage, young Jane Eyre becomes governess to the ward of an imposing older man named Edward Rochester. Ultimately, Jane's gentle influence forces Rochester to drop his forbidding veneer, and he proposes to her. But the discovery that Rochester is already married, and that his volatile wife is imprisoned in the attic, prompts Jane to leave as a series of tragic events unfold.