Elizabeth Refuses

{{Short description|1957 Australian television play}}

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| based_on = {{Based on|Pride and Prejudice|Jane Austen}}

| writer = Margaret Macnamara

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| director = William Sterling

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| country = Australia

| language = English

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| runtime = 30 mins

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| released = {{Start date|1957|02|05|df=y}} (Sydney)

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Elizabeth Refuses is a 1957 Australian TV play based on the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. It was directed by William Sterling. It was performed live from Sydney on 5 February 1957.{{cite magazine|magazine=ABC Weekly|date=19 January 1957|page=19|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1553673736|title=Seen on Channel 2}}

The adaptation was written by English writer Margaret Macnamara of a number of scenes from Jane Austen's novel. It ran for 30 minutes on the ABC.{{Cite magazine|date=2 February 1957|title=TV—Channel 2 ABN |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1553674637|page=31|magazine=ABC Weekly}}