Mr. Darcy, the Yankees are Coming!

Did you know that sometimes TCM shows a 1940 version of Pride and Prejudice starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier? How exciting!

The most strinking thing was the costumes. I am no expert on the clothing of the era, but I thought that Lizzie looked suspiciously like Scarlett O'Hara. I looked on the IMDB page and guess what? Greer Garson said that the costumes were leftovers from Gone with the Wind, aka my childhood obsession.

And to add to the weirdness, the screenwriter was Aldous Huxley, so maybe the Darcys go on to found a creepy dystopia on the grounds of Pemberly. I wish I could watch the movie all the way through, but it's too hard. In the first scene they are shopping for fabric and a little woman with curly hair and a round face walks into the shop. Aunt Pitty! I just keep waiting for them to call each other "Melly" in Southern accents, which only makes their weird fake British accents more annoying.

"Miss Bingley, I don't know nothin bout birthin no babies!"



P.S. I do know that GWTW is horrible and racist.