The first filmed adaptation of a Jane Austen novel came with Emma in 1937, starring the young Margaret Rutherford as Emma and Charles Laughton as Mr Knightley. This adaptation did not escape the censors: a 10-second sequence in which an incautious Harriet, attending a ball at Donwell Abbey, performs a suggestive lap dance for Robert Martin, has only recently been reinstated.
By Craig Brown The Telegraph 26/01/2008 www.telegraph.co.uk
7.25.2008
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A lap dance in a JA movie, who would have thought it possible.
ReplyDeleteCan we locate that footage? Or even the original film?
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