(The award for Most Bizarre Literary Convergence has got to be the screenwriting credit for “Brave New World” author, Aldous Huxley.) But the chemistry between Garson and Olivier does full justice to Jane. The most “Hollywoodized” of the film versions of Austen, purists will enjoy noting the places where the film diverges from the novel. Directorial changes and the start of WWII forced the production to move to Los Angeles. The movie was originally intended to be filmed in England in 1936, with Norma Shearer and Clark Gable in the lead roles. Darcy (Laurence Olivier) spar decorously in this marvelous version of Austen’s second novel.
To pay tribute to one of literature’s greatest accidental screenwriters, here are three of Austen’s finest novels brought to life on film.Įlizabeth Bennet (Greer Garson) and Mr. But what we really come to Austen for is the masterful weaving of character and plot into narratives that satisfy the human thirst for just desserts - both sour and sweet. She is big everywhere, and that fame, founded on the English author’s wise, witty observations on life and love among the upper classes of Britain, has only grown thanks to a steady stream of film and TV versions of her six novels.Īrdent Janeites will argue tirelessly the merits and faults of each production, but one can never fault the dialogue, which flows from Austen’s own tart style of speech. I hope she knows how big she is in Uruguay.”
Indeed, when she accepted the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for “ Sense and Sensibility,” Emma Thompson (who also stars in the film) said: “I went to visit Jane Austen’s grave in Winchester Cathedral, to pay my respects and to tell her about the grosses. Though she published anonymously and went criminally unread while she was alive, the industry that's grown up around her work since the late 1800s would match the economy of a medium-sized South American country. It's an astounding but true fact that Jane Austen never really grows old.
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