Edna May Oliver
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Edna May Oliver was an American stage and film actress. During the 1930s, she was one of the better-known character actresses in American films, often playing tart-tongued spinsters.
Oliver in c. 1940
Oliver (center) in lobby card for David Copperfield (1935)
John Barrymore, Oliver and Leslie Howard in Romeo and Juliet (1936)
Pride and Prejudice is a 1940 American romance film adaptation of Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, the screenpla
Edna May Oliver
…musical The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle. A 1940 comic performance as Laurence Olivier's Mr. Darcy's domineering aunt Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice and a 1941 role as Merle Oberon's grandmother in Lydia concluded her film career. She was also cast in noncomedic films such as Cimarron (1931), Ann…
Theatrical release poster
Garson as Elizabeth Bennet
Olivier as Mr. Darcy