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Becky Sharp / Pioneer Pictures presents ; RKO Radio Pictures ; screen play by Francis Edwards Faragoh ; produced by Kenneth MacGowan ; directed by Rouben Mamoulian.

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Format:
Video
Author/Creator:
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863. Vanity fair, author.
Contributor:
Mamoulian, Rouben, director.
Macgowan, Kenneth, 1888-1963, producer.
Faragoh, Francis Edwards, narrator.
Hopkins, Miriam, 1902-1972, actor.
Dee, Frances, 1907-2004, actor.
Hardwicke, Cedric, 1893-1964, actor.
Burke, Billie, 1885-1970, actor.
Bruce, Nigel, 1895-1953, actor.
Skipworth, Alison, 1863-1952, actor.
Webb, Roy, 1888-1982, composer.
Pioneer Pictures, producer.
RKO Radio Pictures, producer.
Alpha Video Distributors, distributor.
Series:
Alpha video classics
Alpha Video classics
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863--Film adaptations.
Thackeray, William Makepeace.
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Women--England--Drama.
Women.
Manners and customs.
England--Social life and customs--19th century--Drama.
England.
Man-woman relationships--Drama.
Man-woman relationships.
Feature films.
Genre:
Drama.
Film adaptations.
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
polychrome
Place of Publication:
Narberth, PA : Alpha Video Distributors, [2004]
System Details:
DVD, NTSC.
digital
optical
NTSC
video file
DVD video
Summary:
An adaptation of Thackeray's Vanity Fair about a hardened orphan who wages war on English society as an ambitious social climber. The first feature film photographed in Technicolor.
Participant:
Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke, Nigel Bruce, Alison Skipworth.
Credits:
Photography, Ray Rennahan ; editor, Archie F. Marshek ; musical director, Roy Webb.
Notes:
Based on Thackeray's Vanity fair from the play "Becky Sharp" by Langdon Mitchell.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1935.
OCLC:
71358411
Publisher Number:
089218443892
ALP 4438D Alpha Video Distributors

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