BECKY SHARP - 1935

Becky Sharp is a 1935 film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth, Nigel Bruce, and Alan Mowbray. It 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 screenplay was written by Francis Edward Faragoh.

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. The ruthless, self-willed and beautiful Becky is one of the most famous characters in English literature.

Becky Sharp was the first feature film to use the three-strip Technicolor process, which created a separate film register for each of the three primary colors. Earlier live action films to use the new Technicolor process include the final musical number in the feature The Cat and the Fiddle released by MGM in February 1934, and in short sequences filmed for other movies made during 1934, including The House of Rothschild (20th Century Pictures/United Artists) with George Arliss and Kid Millions (Samuel Goldwyn/United Artists) with Eddie Cantor. Warner Brothers released two Leon Errol shorts, Service With a Smile (28 July 1934) and Good Morning, Eve! (5 August 1934), and RKO Pictures released the short La Cucaracha (31 August 1934).



Becky Sharp is now in the public domain.



Plot:



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).

She rises to the top of British society and becomes the scourge of the social circle, offending the other ladies such as Lady Bareacres (Billie Burke).

Finally, Sharp falls into the humiliation of singing for her meals in a beer hall. But Becky never stays down for long.



Directed by Rouben Mamoulian

Produced by Kenneth Macgowan-Rouben Mamoulian-Robert Edmond Jones

Written by Story: William Makepeace Thackeray / Langdon Mitchell

Screenplay: Francis Edward Faragoh



Starring:



Miriam Hopkins

Frances Dee

Cedric Hardwicke

Music by Roy Webb

Cinematography Ray Rennahan

Editing by Archie Marshek

Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures

Release date(s) June 13, 1935 (1935-06-13)

Running time: 84 minutes

Country: United States

Language: English



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