The lovely Nina Foch.
Just put this on hold at the library. Thanks, Criterion!
The first film version of “Pride & Prejudice” was made by Metro Golden Mayer, and released in 1940. The movie was directed by Robert Z. Leonard from a screenplay by Hunt Stromberg, Aldous Huxley, Helen Jerome. and Jane Murfin; and starred Laurence Olivier, Greer Garson, Maureen O’Sullivan, Edna May Oliver, Mary Boland, and Edmund Gwenn.
Aldous Huxley worked on the screenplay?!?!
The costuming in this version is so ridiculous, but I do love Greer Garson.
Late Spring, 1949. I watched this movie twice in one night (the second time I had the Criterion commentary on).
Moira Shearer in “The Red Shoes” (1948)
Cab Calloway hanging out with Lena Horne in the 1940s. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives.
wonderful people hanging out together.
In 1941, Elizabeth McIntosh was a reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, she wrote an article chronicling her experience that day and the following week. Her editors chose not to publish it. Today the Washington Post published her article for the very first time.
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I know people who refuse to watch this version of Pride & Prejudice because the costuming is so very incorrect for the period. Me, I think Greer Garson is a great Elizabeth Bennet.
“Ingrid Bergman at Stromboli,” Gordon Parks. Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery.
speaks volumes, really.
Three women on their way to take their licensing examination by the Texas State Board of Cosmetology ca. 1940.
Photo: Franklin Papers, Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library.
The Lady Eve (1941) - Directed by Preston Sturges
