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** The 1974 film has thirty-three-year-old Sarah Miles as Estella, who's a teenager in her first appearance.

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** The 1974 film has thirty-three-year-old Sarah Miles Creator/SarahMiles as Estella, who's a teenager in her first appearance.
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** The 1974 film has thirty-three-year-old Sarah Miles as Estella, who's a teenager in her first appearance.
** The 1989 miniseries also has the same actress (Kim Thomson, who was in her late twenties at the time) play Estella throughout, including as a teenager.


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** The 1917 film is lost.
** One episode of the 1959 miniseries is lost.


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* RemakeCameo: Jean Simmons, who played Estella in the 1946 film, went on to play Miss Havisham in the 1989 miniseries.
* RoleReprise:
** Francis L. Sullivan played Mr. Jaggers in both the 1934 and 1946 films.
** Alec Guinness and Martita Hunt played Herbert Pocket and Miss Havisham in both the 1939 stage version and the 1946 film.
* SettingUpdate:
** ''An Orphan's Tragedy'' (1955) changes the setting from Victorian England to 1950s Hong Kong.
** ''Fitoor'' (2016) changes the setting to India.
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* BigNameFan: Creator/JohnIrving cites this novel as the one that first inspired him to start writing.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original ending has Pip, who is still single, briefly see Estella in London; after becoming Bentley Drummle's widow, she has remarried. This was changed following comments by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that the ending was too sad

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original ending has Pip, who is still single, briefly see Estella in London; after becoming Bentley Drummle's widow, she has remarried. This was changed following comments by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that the ending was too sadsad.
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* MoneyDearBoy: The novel was only written because Dickens's magazine ''All the Year Round'' was doing poorly and the only thing that would revive it was a serialized Dickens novel.

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* DawsonCasting: Creator/JohnMills playing Pip from the age of 18 to 25 in the 1946 film adaptation, was actually 38 at the time of filming.

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* DawsonCasting: Creator/JohnMills playing Pip from the age CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/CharlesDickens named this as one of 18 to 25 in the 1946 film adaptation, was actually 38 at the time of filming.his own favourite novels.



* ThrowItIn: Invoked by director Creator/DavidLean in the 1946 film adaptation. Creator/AlecGuinness (Herbert) struggled with a close-up in which he had to laugh out loud. Lean told him to forget about the whole thing, sat by his side, and made a little signal to the camera to start turning in the course of the conversation. He said something which made Guinness laugh and then said, "Cut". Guinness: "So he got this shot on a totally false premise... but thank God. I don't think I would have ever achieved it otherwise".

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* ThrowItIn: Invoked WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original ending has Pip, who is still single, briefly see Estella in London; after becoming Bentley Drummle's widow, she has remarried. This was changed following comments by director Creator/DavidLean in Edward Bulwer-Lytton that the 1946 film adaptation. Creator/AlecGuinness (Herbert) struggled with ending was too sad
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** It is documented that Creator/CharlesDickens encountered
a close-up in which wealthy recluse called Elizabeth Parker on whom it is widely believed he had to laugh out loud. Lean told him to forget about based the whole thing, sat by his side, and made a little signal to character, whilst staying in Newport, Shropshire, at the camera to start turning in aptly named Havisham Court.
** It has been suggested that
the course icy teasing of the conversation. He said something which made Guinness laugh and then said, "Cut". Guinness: "So he got this shot character Estella is based on a totally false premise... but thank God. I don't think I would have ever achieved it otherwise".Ellen Ternan's reluctance to become Dickens' mistress.
** It is believed that Dickens revised Herbert Pocket's appearance to resemble his son Charley.
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* DawsonCasting: John Mills playing Pip from the age of 18 to 25 in the 1946 film adaptation, was actually 38 at the time of filming.

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* DawsonCasting: John Mills Creator/JohnMills playing Pip from the age of 18 to 25 in the 1946 film adaptation, was actually 38 at the time of filming.



* ThrowItIn: Invoked by director Creator/DavidLean in the 1946 film adaptation. Alec Guinness (Herbert) struggled with a close-up in which he had to laugh out loud. Lean told him to forget about the whole thing, sat by his side, and made a little signal to the camera to start turning in the course of the conversation. He said something which made Guinness laugh and then said, "Cut". Guinness: "So he got this shot on a totally false premise... but thank God. I don't think I would have ever achieved it otherwise".

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* ThrowItIn: Invoked by director Creator/DavidLean in the 1946 film adaptation. Alec Guinness Creator/AlecGuinness (Herbert) struggled with a close-up in which he had to laugh out loud. Lean told him to forget about the whole thing, sat by his side, and made a little signal to the camera to start turning in the course of the conversation. He said something which made Guinness laugh and then said, "Cut". Guinness: "So he got this shot on a totally false premise... but thank God. I don't think I would have ever achieved it otherwise".
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* ThrowItIn: Invoked by director David Lean in the 1946 film adaptation. Alec Guinness (Herbert) struggled with a close-up in which he had to laugh out loud. Lean told him to forget about the whole thing, sat by his side, and made a little signal to the camera to start turning in the course of the conversation. He said something which made Guinness laugh and then said, "Cut". Guinness: "So he got this shot on a totally false premise... but thank God. I don't think I would have ever achieved it otherwise".

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* ThrowItIn: Invoked by director David Lean Creator/DavidLean in the 1946 film adaptation. Alec Guinness (Herbert) struggled with a close-up in which he had to laugh out loud. Lean told him to forget about the whole thing, sat by his side, and made a little signal to the camera to start turning in the course of the conversation. He said something which made Guinness laugh and then said, "Cut". Guinness: "So he got this shot on a totally false premise... but thank God. I don't think I would have ever achieved it otherwise".
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* DawsoonCasting: John Mills playing Pip from the age of 18 to 25 in the 1946 film adaptation, was actually 38 at the time of filming.

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* DawsoonCasting: DawsonCasting: John Mills playing Pip from the age of 18 to 25 in the 1946 film adaptation, was actually 38 at the time of filming.



* ThrowItIn: Invoked by director David Lean. Alec Guinness (Herbert) struggled with a close-up in which he had to laugh out loud. Lean told him to forget about the whole thing, sat by his side, and made a little signal to the camera to start turning in the course of the conversation. He said something which made Guinness laugh and then said, "Cut". Guinness: "So he got this shot on a totally false premise... but thank God. I don't think I would have ever achieved it otherwise".

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* ThrowItIn: Invoked by director David Lean.Lean in the 1946 film adaptation. Alec Guinness (Herbert) struggled with a close-up in which he had to laugh out loud. Lean told him to forget about the whole thing, sat by his side, and made a little signal to the camera to start turning in the course of the conversation. He said something which made Guinness laugh and then said, "Cut". Guinness: "So he got this shot on a totally false premise... but thank God. I don't think I would have ever achieved it otherwise".
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* BigNameFan: Creator/JohnIrving cites this novel as the one that first inspired him to start writing.

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* BigNameFan: Creator/JohnIrving cites this novel as the one that first inspired him to start writing.writing.
* DawsoonCasting: John Mills playing Pip from the age of 18 to 25 in the 1946 film adaptation, was actually 38 at the time of filming.
* DeletedScene: Modern printings of the novel usually include the original ending as an appendix.
* ThrowItIn: Invoked by director David Lean. Alec Guinness (Herbert) struggled with a close-up in which he had to laugh out loud. Lean told him to forget about the whole thing, sat by his side, and made a little signal to the camera to start turning in the course of the conversation. He said something which made Guinness laugh and then said, "Cut". Guinness: "So he got this shot on a totally false premise... but thank God. I don't think I would have ever achieved it otherwise".
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* BigNameFan: [[APrayerForOwenMeany John Irving]] sites this novel as the one that first inspired him to start writing.

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* BigNameFan: [[APrayerForOwenMeany John Irving]] sites Creator/JohnIrving cites this novel as the one that first inspired him to start writing.
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