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Against the backdrop of Napoleon's Waterloo campaign, an ambitious woman from a family of entertainers begins a destructive climb up the social ladder.Against the backdrop of Napoleon's Waterloo campaign, an ambitious woman from a family of entertainers begins a destructive climb up the social ladder.Against the backdrop of Napoleon's Waterloo campaign, an ambitious woman from a family of entertainers begins a destructive climb up the social ladder.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 2 wins & 3 nominations total
G.P. Huntley
- George Osborne
- (as G.P. Huntley Jr.)
- Director
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- TriviaAlthough the three-strip Technicolor technique had been used previously in short and animated films and in sequences in feature films, Becky Sharp (1935) was the first feature-length film to use the three-strip Technicolor process, which created a separate film register for each of the three primary colors, for the entirety of the film.
- GoofsIn the final scenes, Becky is living in a drab furnished room that is clearly shown to be on the second floor. However, once in the room, a look through a window shows people walking on the street - at the same level as the room itself.
- Quotes
Becky Sharp: To think of her going blind at her age and now she can't even recognize acquaintances. These are glass eyes you are wearing, aren't they? Perfect. Perfect. I do hope that they will continue to attract men.
- Alternate versionsAn early public domain video release of "Becky Sharp" is in black-and-white and runs 59 minutes. Reissue prints from a 1943 re-release run 67 minutes, and were produced in an inferior Cinecolor process. This reissue version remained the only version available for viewing until the original 83-minute Technicolor release was restored in 1984.
- ConnectionsEdited into The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History (1999)
- SoundtracksYoung Molly Who Lives at the Foot of the Hill
(1760) (uncredited)
Traditional
Sung by Miriam Hopkins at the cabaret
Featured review
Big, Bold, Colourful Whistle Stop Tour of Vanity Fair!
An epically long Novel, Vanity Fair is here somehow truncated into less than an hour and a half. Made in 1935 it was the first film produced in full technicolour and it does look beautifully striking. There are also some first rate cinematic shots such as an overhead view of whirling couples on a ballroom dancefloor or a bugler standing beneath a red lantern, engulfed in its light. Silhouettes play an important part, too, most notably in the looming shadow of the Emperor Napoleon after the battle of Waterloo. To place it in its time, we have cameos from William Faversham as The Duke of Wellington and Olaf Hytten as the Prince Regent. But the leading, fictional characters are the ones that the film preoccupies us with. Miriam Hopkins in the eponymous role gives us a sparky effervescent Becky Sharp with more than a hint of brassiness and it is her 'show' with many of the novels other principal characters not getting much of a look in. Those that do make an impact are Cedric Hardwicke as a cold fish of a lecher, Lord Steyne and particularly, Nigel Bruce who gives a wonderfully amusing and endearing portrait of Joseph Sedley, the boobus Brittanicus type of role he went on to specialise in. The film is wonderful to look at and is intermittently engaging and amusing but sometimes grates on the nerves- subtle it ain't and everything, be it emotion or comedy, is overbaked.
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- Lady of Fortune
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- $950,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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