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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.

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Greer Garson
as Elizabeth Bennet
Laurence Olivier
as Mr. 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

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Among afficionados 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.

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