Inspiring the ages
The Telegraph lists the various film adaptations that Pride and Prejudice has inspired over the years. The article is terribly meta; for instance, we learn that in the 1967 version,
Ian Fleming’s niece Lucy, playing Lydia, wore the same costumes used in a 1936 stage production by her mother, Celia Johnson, who played Elizabeth.
*head spins* And wasn’t that the one in which Susannah Harker’s mother played Jane Bennet?
And let’s not forget that in the 1995 version:
The production also had a unique Austen connection - Anna Chancellor, who played Caroline Bingley, is a distant relative of the author.
More P&P meta: Barbara Leigh-Hunt is godmother to Judi Dench’s daughter. (Thanks to Alert Janeite Liz for pointing out the obvious. :))
September 3rd, 2005 at 3:05 pm
Susannah Harker’s mother played Jane Bennet in the 1967 version of P&P.
Here are links to three pictures of the 1967 P&P taken from a newspaper article at that time period.
http://www.pemberley.com/photos/other/1967Bingley_Jane.jpg
http://www.pemberley.com/photos/other/1967E_D.jpg
http://www.pemberley.com/photos/other/1967Bennets.jpg
September 3rd, 2005 at 3:09 pm
How can Barbara-Leigh Hunt be Judi Dench’s godmother when Judi Dench is a year older then Barbara? Did they arrange this when they were older? That is very strange. Very strange indeed!
September 3rd, 2005 at 7:11 pm
Oooh, I’ve never seen those pics. Thanks, Sylvia. I wonder why this version never been ‘named’ - like we have P+P0 for 1940 version, P+P1 (1980), P+P2 (1995) and now P+P3. Is it good adaptation of P+P ?
As for the godmother business, I think Barbara L-H is actually godmother to Finty Williams, Dame Judi’s actress daughter.
September 4th, 2005 at 11:53 am
As for the godmother business, I think Barbara L-H is actually godmother to Finty Williams, Dame Judi’s actress daughter.
That makes a lot more sense…I had read it somewhere but didn’t really think it through.
But STILL!
September 5th, 2005 at 12:30 am
I think they just refer to that version as P&P 1967. It’s not available on VHS or DVD so no one really has bothered to name it anything.