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Brand New 4K Restoration from the 35mm Nitrate Negative & Positive Separations! In the years just preceding Waterloo, best friends Becky Sharp (Miriam Hopkins, Trouble in Paradise) and Amelia Sedley (Frances Dee, I Walked with a Zombie) graduate from Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for Girls. The wealthy Amelia invites the penniless Becky into the bosom of her family home while the manipulative Becky plots her climb up the social ladder. Entirely lacking in scruples and unhampered by conscience or morality, Becky ascends to the very pinnacle of society, crushing anyone who stands in her path. Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, Rouben Mamoulian’s (Love Me Tonight, The Mark of Zorro) adaptation of Thackeray’s (The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.) epic novel Vanity Fair was the first film to be produced in three-strip Technicolor. Screenplay by Francis Edward Faragoh (Little Caesar, Frankenstein) and co-starring Cedric Hardwicke (The Lodger), Billie Burke (The Young in Heart), Nigel Bruce (Suspicion) and Alan Mowbray (I Wake Up Screaming).
Original Release
06/13/1935
US Release
06/13/1935
Cast
Name | Character |
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Miriam Hopkins | Becky Sharp |
Frances Dee | Amelia Sedley |
Cedric Hardwicke | Marquis of Steyne |
Billie Burke | Lady Bareacres |
Alison Skipworth | Miss Crawley |
Nigel Bruce | Joseph Sedley |
Alan Mowbray | Rawdon Crawley |
G.P. Huntley | George Osborne |
William Stack | Pitt Crawley |
George Hassell | Sir Pitt Crawley |
Directors
Writers
William Makepeace Thackeray, Francis Edward Faragoh, Langdon Mitchell
Cast
Name | Character |
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Miriam Hopkins | Becky Sharp |
Frances Dee | Amelia Sedley |
Cedric Hardwicke | Marquis of Steyne |
Billie Burke | Lady Bareacres |
Alison Skipworth | Miss Crawley |
Nigel Bruce | Joseph Sedley |
Alan Mowbray | Rawdon Crawley |
G.P. Huntley | George Osborne |
William Stack | Pitt Crawley |
George Hassell | Sir Pitt Crawley |
William Faversham | Duke of Wellington |
Charles Richman | Gen. Tufto |
Doris Lloyd | Duchess of Richmond |
Colin Tapley | William Dobbin |
Leonard Mudie | Tarquin |
May Beatty | Briggs |
Charles Coleman | Bowles |
Bunny Beatty | Lady Blanche |
Finis Barton | Miss Flowery |
Olaf Hytten | The Prince Regent |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Kenneth Macgowan | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1936 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated |