| 1 | * CreatorBacklash: Creator/LaurenceOlivier didn't think much of the film, saying "it was difficult to make Mr Darcy into anything more than an unattractive-looking prig". He also felt Creator/GreerGarson was the wrong choice to play Elizabeth. During production he felt that more emphasis had been placed on the sets and costumes than the actors. |
| 2 | * DawsonCasting: Lizzie is twenty in the original book. Creator/GreerGarson was thirty six. Creator/LaurenceOlivier was the same age as Mr Darcy, who is also mid-twenties in the novel. |
| 3 | * ExecutiveMeddling: |
| 4 | ** Lady Catherine was given AdaptationalComicRelief in order to reflect the image associated with her actress Edna May Oliver. |
| 5 | ** The time period is moved to the 1860s in order to have more elaborate and flamboyant costumes. |
| 6 | * HeAlsoDid: The screenplay was written by none other than Creator/AldousHuxley, during a period when his career was in a slump and he took several such jobs. |
| 7 | * SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Irving Thalberg was to direct in 1936, with Creator/ClarkGable as Darcy and Creator/NormaShearer as Elizabeth. However Thalberg's sudden death threw a wrench into those plans and the film was shelved for a couple of years. Before the 1940 version was made, there were attempts at reviving the project with Creator/GeorgeCukor directing Creator/RobertDonat as Darcy. |
| 8 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
| 9 | ** Filmmakers intended to shoot in colour and had been committed to shooting on a particular date. They then discovered that all the Technicolor film had been used up on ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''. Thus despite all the lavish sets and costumes designed, the film had to be shot in black and white. |
| 10 | ** Creator/VivienLeigh was passed over for Elizabeth Bennett, much to her husband Creator/LaurenceOlivier's displeasure. |
| 11 | ** Creator/{{MGM}} considered Creator/MelvynDouglas and Creator/RobertTaylor for Darcy, while Creator/NormaShearer wanted to borrow Creator/ErrolFlynn. |
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