Becky Sharp (1935) (Part 1/9)

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

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[lorax121323]

Is it American or British

[ClassicMovieFan96]

@lorax121323 It's American

[102936]

Hopkins' Becky Sharp is actually alot closer to how I imagined Becky Sharp than Reese Witherspoon's version, at least IMO.

[J77147]

I waited 34yrs to  watch this.

[YengaGee]

The 2004 Vanity Fair is just a JOKE.

[Similie]

Wonderful! I watched the Reese Witherspoon version of "Vanity Fair" last night and I loved every minute of it. Must come back to watch this in full, Thanks for posting!

[swallin19]

It was the first full length Technicolor 3 strip colour film released after the lapse and release of the rights to the process by Walt and Roy Disney, who had the rights from Dr Kalmus for both live action and cartoons, after other Hollywood studio's refused to use it. Many other colour films pre-date this, in other processes, but this was the first true Technicolor Production.

[WizardOfHumor1989]

wheres the restored version of this technicolor fil?

[patronerosegueton]

:O!

[chikotube]

has any studio restored this one yet? who owns the rights to it?

[BonitaManga]

I guess first colored film ?

[DoctorScuba]

oh I am so happy to see this in it's complete form!