Pride and Prejudice poster
Screenplay Aldous Huxley, Jane Murfin
Director Robert Z. Leonard

Pride and Prejudice

Tagline: The Gayest Comedy Hit of the Screen! Five Gorgeous Beauties on a Mad-Cap Manhunt!

Release Date: 1940-07-26

Duration: 118 minutes

Synopsis

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.

Casting

  • Greer Garson
    Elizabeth Bennet
  • Laurence Olivier
    Mr. Darcy
  • Edmund Gwenn
    Mr. Bennet
  • Maureen O'Sullivan
    Jane Bennet
  • Edna May Oliver
    Lady Catherine de Bourgh
  • Ann Rutherford
    Lydia Bennet
  • Edward Ashley
    Mr. George Wickham
  • Melville Cooper
    Mr. Collins
  • Bruce Lester
    Mr. Bingley
  • Marsha Hunt
    Mary Bennet