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Release Date: 1935

Cast: Bunny Beatty, Alan Mowbray, Cedric Hardwicke, Alison Skipworth, George Hassell, William Faversham, Miriam Hopkins, William Stack, Colin Tapley, Nigel Bruce, Billie Burke, Frances Dee ...MORE

Cast: Bunny Beatty, Alan Mowbray, Cedric Hardwicke, Alison Skipworth, George Hassell, William Faversham, Miriam Hopkins, William Stack, Colin Tapley, Nigel Bruce, Billie Burke, Frances Dee, Charles Richman ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Romance Film, Drama Film, Romantic Drama, Period Piece, Melodrama, Film Adaptation

Becky Sharp is a 1935 film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Miriam Hopkins. Other supporting cast were 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... MORE

Becky Sharp is a 1935 film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Miriam Hopkins. Other supporting cast were 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) LESS