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Becky Sharp

Call Number

  • DVD DRAMA (CEN)

Languages

In English, with optional English subtitles.

Performers

Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Kino Lorber, [2019]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (84 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

In the years just preceding Waterloo, best friends Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley 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 adaptation of Thackeray's epic novel Vanity Fair was the first film to be produced in three-strip Technicolor.

Notes

Based on Thackeray's Vanity fair ; from the play "Becky Sharp" by Langdon Mitchell.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1935.

Special features: Audio commentary by film historian Jack Threakston ; KLSC trailers.

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