Jane Eyre (1944)

This lavish black-and-white production was the first Jane Eyre I ever saw, and I must admit, what stood out to me were the Elizabeth Taylor scenes. Taylor plays Helen Burns (to Margaret O’Brien’s Jane), and the scenes where Helen is punished for her vanity and her hair is cut off and when she finally dies – that’s really what stood out for a nine-year-old me. Btw, it’s Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine as Rochester and Jane.