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Her script is virtually unsurpassable, and who can resistHugh GrantandAlan Rickmanas romantic leads?
It’s enough to make us swoon like Marianne, played here by a youngKate Winslet.
Anya Taylor-Joy in ‘Emma.'; Colin Firth in ‘Pride and Prejudice’; Emma Thompson in ‘Sense and Sensibility’.Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection
Best Dressed: Emma Woodhouse in Emma.
(2020), Clueless (1995), and Emma (1996)
Emma Woodhouse (a.k.a.
Cher Horowitz inClueless) has money, and she knows how to spend it.
Anya Taylor-Joy in ‘Emma.'; Alicia Silverstone in ‘Clueless’; Gwyneth Paltrow in ‘Emma’.Courtesy Everett Collection (3)
She has lace gowns, fussy hats, and Alaia dresses, and she knows how to wear them.
Get us to a pianoforte, stat!
Though you may find yourself going, “Is this a Noxzema commercial, or what?”
Alicia Silverstone and Stacey Dash in ‘Clueless’.Paramount/Getty
Four or five thousand a year and sick dance moves?
Be still our hearts.
We all think it.
Jonny Lee Miller and Romola Garai in ‘Emma’.BBC
Class Clown: Emma.
But her wit is too often downplayed in screen adaptations.
Darcy gets all the love, but this take on Tilney has us running for our fainting couch.
Jonny Lee Miller and Frances O’Connor in ‘Mansfield Park’.Miramax/courtesy Everett Collection
And then there’sHugh Grant’s Daniel Cleaver!
Just look at him!
What a handsome pair!
J.J. Feild in ‘Northanger Abbey’.ITV/Shutterstock
What an appropriate flirtation!
Dan Stevens in ‘Sense and Sensibility’; Jennifer Ehle in ‘Pride and Prejudice’.BBC/Courtesy Everett Collection
Amanda Root in ‘Persuasion’.Carlo Chinca/BBC/Courtesy Everett Collection
Kate Beckinsale in ‘Love & Friendship’; Hugh Grant in ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’.Courtesy Everett Collection (2)
Greg Wise in ‘Sense and Sensibility’.Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection
