Pride and Prejudice

August 28th, 2008

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Pride and Prejudice

Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Drama
Release Year: 1940
Country: USA
Runtime: 117
Rating: 6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
  • When pretty girls t-e-a-s-e-d men into marriage...

    • Writing by: Jane Austen - novel
    Victor Heerman - uncredited
    Aldous Huxley - writer
    Helen Jerome - dramatisation
    Jane Murfin - writer

    Produced by: Hunt Stromberg - producer

    Cast: Greer Garson - Elizabeth Bennet
    Laurence Olivier - Mr. Darcy
    Mary Boland - Mrs. Bennet
    Edna May Oliver - Lady Catherine de Bourgh
    Maureen OSullivan - Jane Bennet
    Ann Rutherford - Lydia Bennet
    Frieda Inescort - Caroline Bingley
    Edmund Gwenn - Mr. Bennet
    Karen Morley - Charlotte Collins
    Heather Angel - Kitty Bennet
    Marsha Hunt - Mary Bennet

    Music: Herbert Stothart
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    Plot Outline: Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them...
    Plot: Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice, and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.

    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    Scenes from the movie are shown throughout the credits.

    Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Anachronisms: The story takes place during the Regency Era of England (1812-1830) but the costumes, recycled from Gone with the Wind (1939) according to Greer Garson, are from the US Civil War era with wide hoops and corseted bodices.

    Trivia: There are 7 entries in the trivia list - like these:
    • The studios first choice for Darcy was Clark Gable.
    • Many costumes designed by Walter Plunkett for Gone with the Wind (1939) were used again the following year in this film for some of the large crowd scenes, although Adrian created the gowns for the principals in this film. A modest budget partially explains why the costumes are not at all accurate for the assumed period of the film and reusing Plunketts elaborate fashions saved MGM money in making this film.
    • Frieda Inescort, who plays ultra-snob Caroline Bingley, was suffering from multiple sclerosis at the time she made this film.


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