Pride and Prejudice | film by Leonard [1940] (original) (raw)

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• discussed in biography
  • In Robert Z. Leonard: Dancing Lady to Ziegfeld Girl
    …working with MacDonald, Leonard made Pride and Prejudice (1940), an acclaimed adaptation of the Jane Austen classic, with Laurence Olivier, Greer Garson, and Maureen O’Sullivan heading the cast; the script was cowritten by English novelist Aldous Huxley. After the lacklustre
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• Oscar to Gibbons and Groesse for best art direction, 1940
• popularity of Austen’s books
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    In Jane Austen: Austen’s accomplishments and legacy
    … was notably adapted into a 1940 movie starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier and a 1995 TV miniseries with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth. Other film adaptations of Pride and Prejudice include Bride & Prejudice (2004), directed by Gurinder Chadha and starring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan; a 2005 film featuring Keira
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    In Pride and Prejudice: Movies and other adaptations
    Notable adaptations included the 1940 film with Greer Garson as Elizabeth and Laurence Olivier as Darcy, the 1995 TV miniseries starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth, and the 2005 movie featuring Keira Knightley and
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role of

• Garson
  • In Greer Garson
    …films of the period include Pride and Prejudice (1940), Blossoms in the Dust (1941, the first time she was teamed with her frequent costar Walter Pidgeon), Random Harvest (1942), and Madame Curie (1943), but the film that cemented her reputation and image was Mrs. Miniver (1942). Filmed during World War…
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• O’Sullivan
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    In Maureen O’Sullivan
    …Yank at Oxford (1938), and Pride and Prejudice (1940), before appearing in Tarzan’s New York Adventure (1942), the last in the Tarzan series.
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