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Article about "Jane Eyre" 1994 radio version starring Sophie Thompson and Ciaran Hinds from an old issue of Radio Times magazine. It also includes brief summary about previous "Jane Eyre" adaptations from movies and TV serials.
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#jane eyre#charlotte bronte#jane eyre 1994#sophie thompson#ciaran hinds#jane eyre 1934#jane eyre 1943#jane eyre 1956#jane eyre 1963#jane eyre 1970#jane eyre 1973#jane eyre 1983
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Continuing my foray into every adaptation of Jane Eyre that I come across in no particular order, I watched the 1970 this morning. After 2006 providing the best Jane and worst Rochester, I think I might credit this 1970 with providing what might be my favourite Rochester so far and the worst Jane I could possibly imagine.
Susannah Yorke plays her bold and confident, and while I don't think that book Jane lacks those qualities, she does not exhibit them so openly. Book Jane finds it hard to believe she is lovable, though she wishes for it dearly and learns along her journey; from the very start Yorke's Jane is insulted that the world has not loved her appropriately.
Honestly, they were given a bad script and I suspect bad direction to match, but George C. Scott was defiantly good. Though I do wonder what would happen if my favourite Jane was paired with my favourite Rochester. I almost think that one actor must always substantially outshine the other.
The 1997 remains my favourite overall. I liked that in both that version and this one, I initially found Rochester unhandsome, but as his actions and manner developed, he grew on me. That feels very true to the novel.
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forget being at the club OR at the computer. she should have been running across the moors bronte style.
#rereading jane eyre > which leads to rewatching jane eyre 1983 tv adaptation with timothy dalton > realise that he is insanely hot >#feel unwell in the head enough to start watching everything hes in including the 2 bond films he did (i have never watched a bond movie in#my life before now) >currently watching 1970 wuthering heights with him as heathcliff > going full timothy dalton mode AND full bronte mode#ive never read the book actually i should read it after i finish jane eyre maybe#i think i tried to read it a while back but didnt have the discipline/attention for reading at the time
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Jane Eyre - BBC - September 27, 1973 - October 25, 1973
Drama (5 Episodes)
Running Time: 275 minutes total
Stars:
Sorcha Cusack as Jane Eyre
Juliet Waley as young Jane
Michael Jayston as Edward Rochester
Jean Harvey as Mrs. Reed
Terence Sheppard as John Reed
Amanda Stone as Eliza Reed
Caroline Jewson as Georgiana Reed
Brigid Erin Bates as Bessie
Peggy Atchison as Miss Abbott
John Baddeley as Mr. Lloyd
John Phillips as Mr. Brockhurst
Susan Jameson as Miss Temple
Megs Jenkins as Mrs. Fairfax
Stephanie Beacham as Blanche Ingram
Brenda Kempner as Bertha Rochester
Isabelle Rosin as Adele
Geoffrey Whitehead as St. John Rivers
Tina Heath as Helen Burns
Ann Tirard as Miss Scatcherd
Jaki Harding as Miss Miller
Ronald Mayer as John
Zara Jaber as Grace Poole
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Watching a 1970 adaptation of Jane Eyre that starts with Jane's arrival at Lowood and has her at Thornfield by the 20 minute mark. This movie ain't waitin' around for nobody!
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Timothy Dalton has played Mr Rochester AND Heathcliff??? Man must be all kinds of fucked up
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a list of some spring movies/series 🌷
spring is here!! and so is your friendly neighbourhood little organisation freak of a goblin to give you a list of some spring movies and series.
as always, just close your eyes and point somewhere on this little list, or even put the numbers in a generator and go with whatever the result is ♡
summer | autumn | winter
🐝 ‧₊˚ ⋅ movies ⋅˚₊‧
mary poppins (1964)
the sound of music (1965)
aristocats (1970)
alla vi barn i bullerbyn (1986)
my neighbour totoro (1988)
kiki (1989)
a league of their own (1992)
the secret garden (1993)
pride and prejudice (1995/2005)
whisper of the heart (1995)
clueless (1995)
my best friend’s wedding (1997)
parent trap (1998)
10 things i hate about you (1999)
notting hill (1999)
she's all that (1999)
but i’m a cheerleader (1999)
bring it on (2000)
miss congeniality (2000)
spiritied away (2001)
the wedding planner (2001)
legally blonde (2001)
princess diaries (2001 + 2004)
spy kids (2001-2003)
maid in manhatten (2002)
bend it like beckham (2002)
tuck everlasting (2002)
school of rock (2003)
how to lose a guy in 10 days (2003)
something’s gotta give (2003)
13 going on 30 (2004)
finding neverland (2004)
howl’s moving castle (2004)
saving face (2004)
the notebook (2004)
imagine me and you (2005)
nanny mcphee (2005)
penelope (2006)
miss potter (2006)
step up (2006)
she’s the man (2006)
bridge to terabithia (2007)
enchanted (2007)
atonement (2007)
stardust (2007)
ps i love you (2007)
wild child (2008)
made of honour (2008)
ondine (2009)
bride wars (2009)
valentine’s day (2010)
tangled (2010)
leap year (2010)
easy a (2010)
from up on poppy hill (2011)
jane eyre (2011)
crazy, stupid, love (2011)
what to expect when you’re expecting (2012)
remember sunday (2013)
saving mr banks (2013)
about time (2013)
now you see me (2013 + 2016)
love, rosie (2014)
testament of youth (2014)
kingsman (2014-)
paddington (2014 + 2017)
far from the madding crowd (2015)
burnt (2015)
brooklyn (2015)
cinderella (2015)
the man from u.n.c.l.e. (2015)
lady chatterley's lover (2015/2022)
creed franchise (2015-2023)
me before you (2016)
mother’s day (2016)
this beautiful fantastic (2016)
the light between oceans (2016)
paterson (2016)
how to be single (2016)
hidden figures (2016)
gifted (2017)
dunkirk (2017)
ocean’s eight (2018)
life itself (2018)
peter rabbit (2018)
christopher robin (2018)
tomb raider (2018)
set it up (2018)
crazy rich asians (2018)
spider-verse movies (2018-)
1917 (2019)
the art of racing in the rain (2019)
can you keep a secret? (2019)
booksmart (2019)
someone great (2019)
endings, beginnings (2019)
emma (2020)
enola holms (2020-)
the last letter from your lover (2021)
the world to come (2021)
🌼 ‧₊˚ ⋅ series ⋅˚₊‧
little house on the prairie (1974-1983)
moomin valley (1990-1992)
greys anatomy (2005-)
gossip girl (2007-2012)
skins (2007-2013)
the great british bake off (2010-)
new girl (2011-2018)
brooklyn nine-nine (2013-2021)
the fosters (2013-2018)
the 100 (2014-2020)
jane the virgin (2014-2019)
outlander (2014-)
grace and frankie (2015-2022)
poldark (2015-2019)
critical role (2015-)
howards end (2017)
girlboss (2017)
she's gotta have it (2017-2019)
the bold type (2017-2021)
mr. sunshine (2018)
queer eye (2018-)
crash landing into you (2019)
the witcher (2019-)
dickinson (2019-2021)
sex education (2019-2023)
bridgerton (2020-)
ted lasso (2020-2023)
nevertheless (2021)
the falcon and the winter soilder (2021)
flatshare (2022)
#lea speaks#• comfort if you need it •#movies#comfort movies#movie recommendation#studyblr#cottagecore#dark academia#cozycore#cosycore#hygge#naturecore#tv show recommendations#spring#spring aesthetic#spring movies#springcore#cottage core
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sir that's my emotional support 1970s translated edition of charlotte brontë's jane eyre found discounted for 50 eurocent at the thrift shop when i was in high school
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[ID: A redraw of the 1970 Jane Eyre movie poster. Bust portraits of John Doe, Arthur Lester, and Faroe Lester are drawn in sepia tones against a dark background with a filigree border. The title, “To Perish Twice”, spans the top of the image in yellow with an ornate drop cap. Above that are the top credits: “Arthur Lester” and “John Doe”, “in a story by theinkwell33”, “a Malevolent Big Bang 2023 Production”. Across the bottom it says, “art by Rawkingbunny, Genderfluid-Draws” and “beta read by Cosmya”, with the hashtag “MBB2023”. End ID]
I had the privilege to work with @splitting-infinities as an artist on their Jane Eyre-inspired fic, “To Perish Twice”, for the @malevolentbigbang! Check it out to get your fill of gothic heroine John Doe and brooding recluse Arthur Lester! Also check out @rawkingbunny, who did a great art piece as well as a WHOLE PODFIC! LIKE, ALL 28K WORDS, IT’S INCREDIBLE.
And here are a couple of boys meeting by the fireside:
[ID: Digital painting of John Doe and Arthur Lester by the fireplace in Henley Manor. Arthur is seated in a big red Victorian armchair, one leg crossed over the other. He wears white slacks and a dark blue suit jacket with a sky blue scarf. John stands across from him in front of a second chair. His arms are crossed behind his back, and he wears a charcoal grey doublet and slacks. End ID]
#mbb2023#malevolent big bang 2023#malevolent podcast#malevolent#arthur lester#john doe#malevolent fic rec
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Actress and Author, Lara Parker, of Dark Shadows, Passes at 84
Lara Parker, who found the role of a lifetime at just 28 years old when she was cast by Dark Shadows producer Dan Curtis as the beautiful, vengeful and altogether evil witch Angelique Bouchard Collins, died October 12 in her sleep in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer. She was 84.
Her death was announced by producer Jim Pierson of Dan Curtis Productions, on behalf of Parker’s family.
“I’m heartbroken, as all of us are who knew and loved her,” said her Dark Shadows co-star and longtime friend Kathryn Leigh Scott in a statement. “She graced our lives with her beauty, talent and friendship, and we are all richer for having had her in our lives.”
Parker was born Mary Lamar Rickey on Oct. 27, 1938, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her father, Albert, was an attorney, and her mother, Ann, was active in civic groups.
She graduated from Central High School in Memphis and attended Vassar — she roomed with Jane Fonda there — and Rhodes College in Memphis, where at 19 she served as Wink Martindale’s assistant on his WHBQ-TV show, Dance Party. She then earned a master’s degree from the University of Iowa.
Parker, who also authored four popular Dark Shadows-related novels from 1998-2016, arrived on the supernatural soap opera in 1967, not long after Canadian actor Jonathan Frid had been cast as vampire Barnabas Collins. Frid’s storyline changed the show from a moody, Gothic Jane Eyre-type serial into a flat-out horror show.
During breaks in production, Parker acted on Broadway in September 1968 in Woman Is My Idea, which lasted just five performances, and in the early Brian De Palma film Hi, Mom! (1970), starring Robert De Niro.
And toward the end of the daytime serial, she and fellow castmembers including John Karlen, Kate Jackson, David Selby and Grayson Hall appeared in the poorly received MGM film Night of Dark Shadows (1971).
In 1972, Parker relocated to Los Angeles and went on to appear on episodes of such shows as Medical Center, Kojak, The Rockford Files, Police Woman, Kolchak: The Night Stalker (as a witch) and The Incredible Hulk, where she played David Banner’s first wife in a flashback sequence in the pilot.
In her later years, Parker turned to writing and teaching — her novels include Angelique’s Descent (1998), The Salem Branch (2006), Wolf Moon Rising (2013) and Heiress of Collinwood (2016). The books proved popular among Dark Shadows‘ still-devoted, conventions-attending fan base, as well as devotees of romance and horror genre novels.
Parker kept in touch with her co-stars including Scott, Selby, Roger Davis, the late John Karlen and others throughout her life, particularly once the conventions became annual events in the late 1980s through the 1990s and up to the 50th anniversary celebration in 2017.
Many of the original cast, including Parker, recorded a series of Dark Shadows audio dramas in the 2000s released by Big Finish Productions. They also reunited for a “Smartphone Theatre” Zoom-style, Covid-era performance of A Christmas Carol in 2021 and, on Halloween night 2020, a YouTube/Zoom Dark Shadows cast reunion.
Parker is survived by second husband Jim Hawkins, daughter Caitlin, sons Rick and Andy, and their wives Miranda and Celia; and grandson Wesley.
#Lara Parker#Dark Shadows#Dan Curtis#Jonathan Frid#The Incredible Hulk#Kojak#Kathryn Leigh Scott#Big Finish Productions#David Selby#Grayson Hall#Angelique Bouchard#Angelique Bouchard Collins#Barnabas Collins
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For some reason, I find pleasing to hear Jane saying Mr. Rochester's name in many adaptation versions. They sounded beautiful, perhaps they rarely say it.
What Mr. Rochester said in Chapter 27 was true -
"I liked my name pronounced by your lips
in a grateful happy accent."
#jane eyre#charlotte bronte#mr rochester#edward rochester#edward fairfax rochester#jane eyre 1943#jane eyre 1970#jane eyre 1973#jane eyre 1983#jane eyre 1996#jane eyre 1997#jane eyre 2006#jane eyre 2011#joan fontaine#susannah york#sorcha cusack#zelah clarke#charlotte gainsbourg#samantha morton#ruth wilson#mia wasikowska
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All Creatures Great and Small: Samuel West on his Yorkshire heritage, meeting his fellow cast members and finding Siegfried
All Creatures Great and Small actor Samuel West talks to Stephanie Smith about his Yorkshire heritage, first meeting his fellow cast members – and finding Siegfried Farnon.
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If there is a magic formula for making a hit TV drama series in the 21st century, All Creatures Great and Small has bottled and then gift-wrapped it. Values are key and, says Samuel West, the upcoming Christmas Special spreads a much-needed message of decency and kindness.
“It’s about people coming together in difficulty, to support each other, at a time when so many terrible things are happening in the world,” he says. “It’s got absent friends, people who are missing, people who won’t ever come back, just like life.”
Samuel plays Siegfried Farnon, the Yorkshire Dales vet with a short fuse and a huge heart. It is a role that he has more than made his own, even for those who remember Robert Hardy in the original BBC series that ran from 1978 to 1990.
Samuel West and Peter Wright in All Creatures Great and Small Meets The Yorkshire Vet. Photo: Channel 5
The “new” Channel 5 adaptation launched amid a pandemic-crippled UK back in September 2020, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the publication of If Only They Could Talk, the first of the James Herriot bestsellers penned by Thirsk vet James Alfred “Alf” Wight. There have now been four TV series made (and we are talking to mark the release of a DVD box set of them).
All Creatures has been a great success for Channel 5, with viewing figures for the fourth season peaking at 3.7million. Samuel saw the show’s potential from the off. “I was already thinking about Channel 5 as a good place, because they had given up Big Brother and so they had to fill about 250 hours a year of schedule, and they started filling it with drama, which was delightful.”
When approached to play Siegfried, he was already a respected actor, with a rich and varied career mingling theatre, TV and film, radio and voiceover work. Nominated in 1993 for a BAFTA for Howards End, his film credits also include Jane Eyre, Van Helsing and Notting Hill, while his TV work includes the BBC’s Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (filmed in York in 2015), Waking the Dead, Any Human Heart, Slow Horses, The Crown, Small Axe and four series of Mr Selfridge. He was artistic director of Sheffield Theatres from 2005 to 2007.
He learned that Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning production company Playground was making the new All Creatures. “I had just finished watching Playground’s Wolf Hall, which I had adored, and that period stuff is hard to get right, and expensive to do well,” he says.
The treatment he was sent included a back story about Siegfried, written by lead writer, Ben Vanstone. “It was beautiful,” says Samuel. “Almost sort of Chekhovian in its detail and the cables that ran through the man. They had set a lot of things in this past that had made him layered, and I realised, just from thinking about the man, and looking at the books and remembering Robert Hardy’s performance in the 1970s, that he was going to need a lot of playing. It was going to need vocal and physical size. But I thought, if I am on the right track and I know where I am coming from, I think I’m quite good casting.”
He met Nicholas Ralph (James Herriot), Rachel Shenton (Helen) and Callum Woodhouse (Tristan) on the train from Leeds to Skipton for a couple of days’ rehearsal. Samuel says: “At the end of the journey, I thought, what lovely people, and at the end of the rehearsal, I thought, this ensemble really works, and then they cast Anna Madeley and she was the icing on the cake that was already rising.”
Siegfried is often spotted reading The Yorkshire Post. “Quite right, too,” says Samuel. “ I also love the paper. I think your editorials are sometimes some of the most sensible things I read all week.”
In this series, Siegfried is a widower, a detail not in the Herriot novels but echoing the life of the real man who inspired the character, Donald Sinclair, whose first wife, Evelyn, died of tuberculosis. He was married to his second wife for 53 years. She was called Audrey, which just happens to be the lesser heard name of Anna Madeley’s character, Mrs Hall.
Samuel discovered more about Donald Sinclair when he teamed up with real-life vet Peter Wright while making the programme All Creatures Great and Small Meets The Yorkshire Vet, which airs on Channel 5 just before the All Creatures Christmas Special on December 21. He also visited The World of James Herriot with Alf Wight’s children, Jim Wight and Rosie Page, and has incorporated into Siegfried’s portrayal some of the details they passed on. “My father says, do as much research as you can because, even if only 10 per cent is useful, the more you do, the bigger the 10 per cent is. Except he says I say that.”
Samuel’s father, actor Timothy West, is Bradford-born. Family legend has it that Timothy’s father (actor Lockwood West, known as Harry) was on tour there at the time. “It's not true,” says Samuel. What actually happened was, in pre-NHS days, he and his wife, Olive, also an actor, had been told of an inexpensive maternity home up in Yorkshire. Samuel says: “They were playing in Eastbourne at the time. She went by train to Bradford, had the baby, and Harry continued to do eight shows a week.”
Samuel - who has two daughters, aged nine and six, with his partner, the playwright Laura Wade - plans to save the All Creatures Christmas special to watch with his father and mother, fellow actor Prunella Scales. “My father, in particular, is quite cross that he’s not in it, but he can’t be in everything,” he says. “And we would have to be related - we look increasingly like each other.”
The All Creatures Great and Christmas 2023 episode will be broadcast on December 21, at 9pm in the UK on Channel 5 and My5.
#all creatures great and small#acgas 2020#acgas spoilers#acgas interviews#acgas s4#samuel west#siegfried farnon
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Brewing for @ravenkings concept about Jane Eyre adaptations:
What does your favorite Jane Eyre adaptation say about you?
1946: Orson Wells fascinates you.
1970: your mind is a mystery to me.
1973: you are a positive minded individual or a stickler for play by play adaptations.
1983: you think Timothy Dalton is really really hot.
1996: tenderness and healing from trauma is your jam.
1997: you really, really love Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
2006: you love the romantic tropes of Jane Eyre more than Jane Eyre itself (not that you don't love Jane Eyre anyways).
2011: you are depressed and lonely and really really really craving a change.
Now come at me with the murder comments, just know that I made this one in good humor and half in jest and it'd be lovely if we can keep it... not messy.
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jane eyre adaptations ranked from the hottest to least sexy??? WINKWINK
— 2006; HORNY they’re HORNY, your honor! (almost an ideal JE adaptation generally (and definitely the hottest one))
— 1973; both leads are questionably suited for their parts but the chemistry??? ILLEGAL. (also it has the sexiest st john ever!! repressed and inflamed!!!)
— 1983; im such a slut for height difference, sorry not sorry.
— 1943; it’s very loosely based on JE but the YEARNING is there nonetheless!
— 2011; love making but make it cinematic
— 1997; samantha morton tries her best and at least it’s not boring… i guess????
— 1996; …. nothing sexy about it except for ten seconds of amanda root (and the very best adele!)
i haven’t seen the 1934s, the 1952s hindi one and the 1970s tho (and of course those that are unavailable to stream!)
#btw you should watch the NTL version!! it’s a great one#the theater presentation really showcase just how adaptable JE is not only on screen but on stage as well#jane eyre#sorry if i was harsh on your faves 🥺#anon#ask
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