1 | * CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/CharlesDickens named this as one of his own favourite novels. |
2 | * DawsonCasting: |
3 | ** The 1974 film has thirty-three-year-old Creator/SarahMiles as Estella, who's a teenager in her first appearance. |
4 | ** 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. |
5 | * DeletedScene: Modern printings of the novel usually include the original ending as an appendix. |
6 | * MissingEpisode: |
7 | ** The 1917 film is lost. |
8 | ** One episode of the 1959 miniseries is lost. |
9 | * 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. |
10 | * RemakeCameo: Jean Simmons, who played Estella in the 1946 film, went on to play Miss Havisham in the 1989 miniseries. |
11 | * RoleReprise: |
12 | ** Francis L. Sullivan played Mr. Jaggers in both the 1934 and 1946 films. |
13 | ** Alec Guinness and Martita Hunt played Herbert Pocket and Miss Havisham in both the 1939 stage version and the 1946 film. |
14 | * SettingUpdate: |
15 | ** ''An Orphan's Tragedy'' (1955) changes the setting from Victorian England to 1950s Hong Kong. |
16 | ** ''Fitoor'' (2016) changes the setting to India. |
17 | * 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. |
18 | * WriteWhoYouKnow: |
19 | ** It is documented that Creator/CharlesDickens encountered a wealthy recluse called Elizabeth Parker on whom it is widely believed he based the character, whilst staying in Newport, Shropshire, at the aptly named Havisham Court. |
20 | ** It has been suggested that the icy teasing of the character Estella is based on Ellen Ternan's reluctance to become Dickens' mistress. |
21 | ** It is believed that Dickens revised Herbert Pocket's appearance to resemble his son Charley. |
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