Sense and Sensibility (1995), Marianne Brandon

Marianne meets the older Colonel Brandon (Alan Rickman), who falls in love with her at first sight. Competing with him for her affections is the dashing but deceitful John Willoughby (Greg Wise), whom Marianne falls in love with. On the morning she expects him to propose marriage to her, he instead leaves hurriedly for London. Unbeknownst to the Dashwood family, Brandon s ward Beth, illegitimate daughter of his former love Eliza, is pregnant with Willoughby s child, and Willoughby s aunt Lady Allen has disi