Becky Sharp (1935) (9/9)

Set against the background of the Battle of Waterloo, Becky Sharp is the story of Vanity Fair by Thackeray. Becky and Amelia are girls at school together, but Becky is from a "show biz" family, or in other words, very low class. Becky manages to insinuate herself in Amelia's family and gets to know all their friends. From this possibly auspicious- beginning, she manages to ruin her own life, becoming sick, broke, and lonely, and also ruins the lives of many other "loved ones". In the movie we get to see the class distinctions in England at the time, and get a sense of what it was like for the English military at the time of the Napoleonic wars.
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 (as G.P. Huntley Jr.)
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 ... Capt. William Dobbin
Leonard Mudie ... Tarquin

• Category

  Film & Animation

[mimiluvfromsf]

Thank you! So kind of you to upload a fun and unusual movie.

[J77147]

EXCELLENT  MOVIE, 5*****

[MARTINKUK1]

Thanks for posting this unique Mamoulian's film. Three aspects make it interesting: Miriam Hopkins' performance, three strip Technicolor and imagery which was always so important for Rouben Mamoulian.