![]() Love & Friendship – have had one theatrical movie adaptation each. Sense & Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Lady Susan – a.k.a. Pride has been adapted the most out of Austen’s books, including as the Bollywood-style Bride & Prejudice, and most recently in 2005 with Keira Knightley. The first significant (and surviving) adaptation was 1940’s Pride and Prejudice, starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier, with the screenplay co-written by Aldous Huxley. ![]() Austen’s mastery of irony combined with her scintillating insight and ability to mine for humor in relationships has made her novels resonate well past her lifetime and into the cinematic medium that would rise 100 years after her death. Jane Austen books may have been around for centuries now, but in the movie world she’s as popular as she’s ever been. (Photo by Roadside Attractions/courtesy Everett Collection) All Jane Austen Movies Ranked by Tomatometer ![]()
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