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Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations. This classic Hollywood version was released in 1940. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, Aldous Huxley served as one of the screenwriters on the production.
Cast and crew
- Greer Garson as Elizabeth Bennet
- Laurence Olivier as Fitzwilliam Darcy
- Mary Boland as Mrs. Bennet
- Edna May Oliver as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
- Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane Bennet
- Ann Rutherford as Lydia Bennet
- Frieda Inescort as Caroline Bingley
- Edmund Gwenn as Mr. Bennet
- Karen Morley as Charlotte Collins
- Heather Angel as Kitty Bennet
- Marsha Hunt as Mary Bennet
Reactions
Among aficionados of Jane Austen's original novel, this movie adaptation is notorious for drastically diverging from the novel in a number of ways (most prominently in its treatment of the Lady Catherine de Bourgh character) and being excessively "Hollywoodized" — and for putting the women in clothes based on the styles of the late 1820s and the styles of the 1830s which were quite different from the Regency styles appropriate to the novel's setting.
However, as a film, it has been critically well received.
External links
1940 films | Films based on Jane Austen works | Adaptations of works by Jane Austen | Period films
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