Becky Sharp
A struggling but resourceful woman works her way up the social ladder and reaches the pinnacle of polite British society during the Napoleonic era.
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DVD-R Details
- Based on Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: June 22, 2004
- Originally Released: 1935
- Label: Alpha Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Miriam Hopkins, Cedric Hardwicke & Nigel Bruce | |
Performer: | Frances Dee, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth, Alan Mowbray, Colin Tapley, G.P. Huntley & Charles Richman | |
Directed by | Rouben Mamoulian | |
Edited by | Archie Marshek | |
Screenwriting by | Francis Edward Faragoh | |
Composition by | Roy Webb | |
Produced by | Kenneth Macgowan | |
Director of Photography: | Ray Rennahan |
Entertainment Reviews:
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The triumph of technicolor. Robert Edmond Jones is responsible for the superb color design, Rouben Mamoulian directed, Miriam Hopkins plays Becky. A picture that cost a fortune and will probably make several.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: C+ --
Failed to sizzle.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
With the exception of Miriam Hopkins in the title role, the acting in Becky Sharp is almost violently negligible.
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Vanity Fair
Rating: B --
Mamoulian's film is best known for its innovative use of three-color Technicolor, but in the title role, Miriam Hopkins gives a strong, Oscar-nominated performance.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
In the years just preceding Waterloo, best friends Amelia Sedley (Frances Dee) and Becky Sharp (Miriam Hopkins) 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.
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The first Technicolor feature is a loose adaptation of Thackeray's VANITY FAIR. Something of a gold-digger, little orphan Becky sets her cap for Joseph Sedley, the wealthy brother of her best friend Amelia. But even the dull-witted Joseph realizes that his family would not smile upon such a union and so never proposes. Frustrated, Becky leaves the Sedley household, and, using her brains, beauty and charm, claws her way into the upper class. Rather tough going, but worth seeing (particularly the recently restored version) a watershed movie moment. Academy Award Nominations: Best Actress--Miriam Hopkins.
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