Pride And Prejudice
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Shonda Rhimes' Bridgerton is just the latest period drama to capture our attention, and it's all Colin Firth's fault.
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The world outside is pretty awful, but at least we still have movies.
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How many of the BBC's top 100 books have you read?
From Bridget Jones' Diary to Pride & Prejudice – the novels that 'shaped our world'.
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Gwyneth Paltrow and Keira Knightley 'too whiney and wooden' for Jane Austen movies
Gwyneth Paltrow and Keira Knightley were both thoroughly unsuitable to star in movie adaptations of Jane Austen novels, according to an expert on the celebrated novelist.
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Colin Firth almost didn't get the Mr Darcy role because he was 'too ginger'
Whatever Colin Firth does in his career, it’ll be tough to shake off his breakthrough role, as Mr Darcy in the BBC’s 1995 adaptation of ‘Pride and Prejudice’. Speaking to an audience at the BFI to mark his 80 birthday, Davies said: “I was a bit doubtful about Colin at the time because of his colouring at the time.