THE MAKING OF JANE AUSTEN, BY DEVONEY LOOSER
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Chapter Seven:
Stage to Screen Pride and Prejudice: 
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Hollywood's First Austen and Its Unrealized Screenplays

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Chapter Seven: Stage to Screen Pride and Prejudice: Hollywood's First Austen and Its Unrealized Screenplays
It was a bumpy road from Helen Jerome's hit Broadway and West End Play, Pride and Prejudice: A Sentimental Comedy (1935-36), to the big screen and MGM film version starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier. We've long known that it's a story featuring missteps, an unfortunate death, and countless Darcys and Elizabeths. There were also staggering numbers of screenwriters. Read more about their little-known attempts to update Austen in their failed, but fascinating, unpublished screenplays. These unpublished scripts range from the daring to the ridiculous, in a circuitous path that led to the first Hollywood Austen.

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P. S. Read more, too, about that strange, oft-repeated yarn that claims Austen on the big screen is all thanks to Harpo Marx.

Is  It  right  for  your  book  club?

Yes, definitely! The paperback edition includes a brief reader's guide with discussion questions. I'd love to hear from you if you're considering choosing it.

This book works best in clubs familiar with Austen's fiction or film adaptations. (You could read or watch Pride and Prejudice and then choose this book.)

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