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(1940) Greer Garson is the spirited Elizabeth and Laurence Olivier is the stiff Darcy in the lavish MGM adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, which won an Oscar for Best Art Direction. Aldous Huxley was a screenwriter on the production, directed by MGM stalwart Robert Z. Leonard, and Edna May Oliver, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mary Boland, and Ann Rutherford co-star.

Five classic literary adaptations from the Golden Age of Hollywood, available in a box set or individually. David Selznick produced the lavish MGM adaptations of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield (1935), starring Freddie Bartholomew and W.C. Fields, and A Tale of Two Cities (1935), starring Ronald Colman. Greer Garson is the spirited Elizabeth and Laurence Olivier is the stiff Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (1940), Jackie Cooper and Wallace Beery headline Treasure Island (1934), and Norma Shearer is Marie Antoinette (1938), co-starring Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, and Robert Morley. See Cult and Classics for more details on individual titles.