Pride & Prejudice (1940) - Lady Catherine confronts Elizabeth Bennet 

Those Gone With The Wind dresses in this version always crack me up 😂

Absolutely the best version of P & P!

The clothes make this version look more like Gone with the wind.

Boy, they really took literally license. Lady Catherine had no such power over Darcy.

Lady Catherine (that great old dragon Edna May Oliver) is far more comic and harmless in this version, but MGM broadened everything in this adaptation. Animated and bouncy, Austen comes across more like Dickens. Once one adjusts to this, it's a happy and carefree experience, and certainly the most fun of all the different versions.

I can understand the comments about costuming and casting, but having never read the book I found this movie highly entertaining, taken for what it is.

One thing is for sure. Although I like this version for the humor value, the costumers didn't do much research. Jane Austen lived during a time in England called "The Regency Period." That was during the Napoleonic War and the dress was much different than the type of wear the women are wearing. The Josefine dresses were popular and not Dickensian garb which became prominent during the early Victorian era.

I realize, among other things about this version, Greer Garson is probably not very many people’s favorites Elizabeth Bennett but I really enjoy her-especially in this scene. How she plays off Lady Catherine, she’s so cool and calm yet witty and sarcastic.

This was the first version of the film I saw, and will forever remain my favourite.

I love this film. Who cares about the costumes and inaccuracies to the book.

I like how they used this scene to reveal that Darcy arranged the wedding with Lydia and Wickum. That is a good choice by the director to speed up the story by several minutes.

Edna Mae Oliver was amazed how the film script changed the famous role of Lady Catherine, a truly awful and imperious individual. But being an experienced actress of the greatest skill (the original Parthy in "Show Boat") she took it in stride. With that horse face (her own description), size and voice, she said you used to come home at night, look in the mirror, and laugh heartily at all the money she was making. She was very talented, very skilled and very smart..

The best version of Pride and Prejudice is the 1990s BBC series staring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.

She doesn't have the power to do s*** to Darcy. His father's money isn't tied to that woman. I don't think the people who put this on actually read the friggin book.

LOL, this is not Pride and Prejudice, but it is amusing in its own way.

Yes indeed this is the best version. The 2nd best version being the one with Colin Firth starring in it.

Big departure from the book. This meeting is covered in Chapter 56.Lady Catherine never steps into the Bennett house but requests Elizabeth to accompany her on a walk outside in the garden. But more than just a change of location, the story has been re-written. Elizabeth already knew that Darcy had bought Wyckham off and forced him to marry Lydia. This was no great surprise to Elizabeth. Nor, in the book, does Lady Catherine threaten to disown her nephew. What this chapter of the book offers the reader is to see Elizabeth go head to head with the Lady Catharine. In this regard the movie falls far short of the novel.

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Love this scene; love both characters.

I wonder if they did't study the history before making the costumes or the other versions are the wrong ones?

The lady Catherine from the 2005 movie was more believable in my opinion - much more threatening

I have a little problem with the costume and the jewelry that Elizabeth Bennet is wearing where the hell is the supposed to be taking place. She's coming across like a southern belle. The clothes don't look right the accent sure isn't right. It sounds strange.

My very favorite movie, the best version of this book! But I can’t get the complete movie anymore….

Loved this movie...and EMO et al are simply brilliant!

The way cstherine storms up to the chair, like an angry teenage girl 😂

Lady Catherine had no saying over Darcy's money. It came from his father. Bullshit line.

Edna Mae Oliver would have been great if she had ever played Queen Mary, the Grandmother of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd.

I thought Greer Garson looked too old to play Lizzy.

Awesome

Edna May Oliver was a wonderful actress and well cast as Lady Catherine (Greer Garson's rather dull, IMO). But it's a pity this version of Pride & Prejudice was directed by a studio hack, Robert Z. Leonard, and not by a director who would understand the drama inherent in this scene which is really the climax of the book. This should be a battle between two very strong willed women and even between two classes and while Elizabeth has a sharp wit, it in no way should be funny.

Wacky costumes and accents!

This movie pride and predudice this (1940) with Lawerence Olivier is my favorite!

The early victorian/romance period costumes were available at this time, and kept the filming budget down. While we all would have prefered Regency gowns, I love tbis interpetation of Elizabeth. Jennifer Ehlers Elizabeth was more controled . The humor of Elizabeth was limited to Ehles eyes . Knightlys Elizabeth was missing this aspec of the Character. Greer and Ehler were warmer.

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Can't find full movie, so sad

Greer Garson may have been too old and the film may have gotten just about every major aspect wrong from the book, but I'm biased as its the first version I'd seen and when I think Elizabeth Bennett Greer is usually the one I think of first. Part of what I think works is that while Lizzy is twenty and Greer was in her 30s when she played her, the character is supposed to be wise beyond her years and more mature than her sisters (which meets halfway with the fact that Greer looked younger than her actual age). I think Greer's natural warmth goes a long way towards establishing what Jane Austen described as "a lively, playful disposition which delighted in anything ridiculous" and "something more of quickness than her sisters." I get why its not everyone's cup of tea but I just love it

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i love this movie but i can't find the full one,pity

I used to hate this version. Really, people need to get over the idea they are better writers than Jane Austen. Even if they are Aldous Huxley. But now I have to admit that aside from Greer Garson, the cast and direction are great. If only they were in a version truer to the book, they would be perfect.

Not true to the book, yet brilliant nonetheless.

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Too bad it's not the full movie.

Love Edna Mae

Great Movie! bad costuming

Very inaccurate

they botched it so bad

They couldn't even get the clothing right in this one...ah, the massive ignorance of hollywood...!

P&P 2005 Delicious!

The absolute worst version of this great classic novel.

Worst film version ever.

Very bad.

Just awful.