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Becky Sharp

Becky Sharp
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theatrical release poster
Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
Produced by Kenneth Macgowan
Rouben Mamoulian
Robert Edmond Jones
Screenplay by Francis Edward Faragoh
Story by William Makepeace Thackeray
Langdon Mitchell
Starring Miriam Hopkins
Alan Mowbray
Frances Dee
Cedric Hardwicke
Music by Roy Webb
Cinematography Ray Rennahan
Edited by Archie Marshek
Production
company
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release date
June 13, 1935 (1935-06-13)
Running time
84 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Becky Sharp is a 1935 American historical drama film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Miriam Hopkins. Other supporting cast were Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth, Nigel Bruce, and Alan Mowbray.

The film is based on the play of the same name by Langdon Mitchell, which in turn is based on William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair. The play was made famous in the late 1890s by actress Minnie Maddern Fiske. The screenplay was written by Francis Edward Faragoh. The film was considered a landmark in cinema as the first feature film to use the newly developed three-strip Technicolor production throughout, opening the way for a growing number of color films to be made in Britain and the United States in the years leading up to World War II.

The film recounts the tale of a lower-class girl who insinuates herself into an upper-class family, only to see her life and the lives of those around her destroyed.

Becky Sharp (Miriam Hopkins), a socially ambitious English young lady manages to survive during the years following Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.

In her efforts to advance herself, she manages to link up with a number of gentlemen: the Marquis of Steyne (Cedric Hardwicke), Joseph Sedley (Nigel Bruce), Rawdon Crawley (Alan Mowbray), and George Osborne (G. P. Huntley Jr).


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