Jane Eyre (1996 film) estate (and ultimately Mr. Rochester) with his wife, Bertha (Maria Schneider), who is mentally ill and kept locked away in an upstairs attic with a nurse, Grace Poole (Billie Whitelaw). The marriage is stopped by Bertha's brother Richard Mason (Edward de Souza) and lawyer Briggs (Peter Woodthorpe). Jane flees, her world crashing down is a nightmare. She recovers in the parsonage of her original aunt's home, discovers she is now a wealthy woman inheriting her long-lost uncle's fortune in Madeira. She gets a proposal of marriage from Parson St. John Rivers but her heart and soul is with Rochester. Jane
Jill St. John Kay Kendall. St John then signed a contract with 20th Century Fox who tried to build her into a star. She played the daughter of Clifton Webb in "The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker" (1959) and "Holiday for Lovers" (1959), then was put in an adventure movie, "The Lost World" (1960). "Nothing but starlet parts," she later said. "You know, the daughter, the niece, the girlfriend." Fox picked up their option on her. Warner Bros borrowed her for "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" (1961), then she had a support part in "Tender Is the Night" (1962). St John had a key