Rent Pride and Prejudice (1940)
3.8 of 5 from 48 ratings
1h 52min
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- Synopsis:
Like the arrows she launches at an archery target during an elegant lawn party, Elizabeth Bennet's wit is pointed and unerring. "If you want to be really refined, you have to be dead", she says, skewering the imperious airs of her hosts. Jane Austen's timeless 1813 novel of unlikely romance is richly adapted in this lavish Academy Award-winner. Greer Garson portrays spirited Elizabeth, one of five Bennet sisters hoping for matrimony. Laurence Olivier plays Darcy, whose arrival at a nearby estate sets maiden hearts aflutter. But first impressions can mean so very much. Elizabeth and Darcy find reasons to view each other with disdain, setting in motion a velvet struggle of 'Pride and Prejudice', perception and reality, forgiveness and love. You'll be irresistibly caught up in it. - Actors:
- Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Maureen O'Sullivan, Ann Rutherford, Frieda Inescort, Edmund Gwenn, Karen Morley, Heather Angel, Marsha Hunt, Melville Cooper, Edward Ashley, Bruce Lester, E.E. Clive, Vernon Downing, Marjorie Wood, Marten Lamont, May Beatty, Gia Kent
- Directors:
- Robert Z. Leonard
- Producers:
- Hunt Stromberg
- Writers:
- Aldous Huxley, Jane Murfin, Jane Austen, Helen Jerome, Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason, Tess Slesinger, John Van Druten
- Others:
- Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance
- Collections:
- Award Winners, Holidays Film Collection, Ireland At the Oscars, Romantic Film Pairings for Valentine's Day, Top 10 Movie Marriage Proposals, Top Films
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