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Vanity Fair is a BBC television drama serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 novel of the same name broadcast in 1967. It was the first drama serial in colour produced by the BBC. Vanity Fair starred Susan Hampshire as Becky Sharp.
Vanity Fair: With Susan Hampshire, Marilyn Taylerson, Dyson Lovell, Bryan Marshall. Rebecca "Becky" Sharp is an impoverished, strong-willed and cunning young woman determined to make her way in the early 19th Century British society.
- (71)
- 1972-10-01
- Drama
- 50
Becky Sharp, an impoverished orphan, graduates from Miss Pinkerton's Borading School, along with her wealthy and kindly friend Amelia Sedley. Amelia takes Becky under her wing to go and live with her and her family.
The BBC’s first colour production of a classic serial – a five-part adaptation of Thackeray’s novel of social and amorous manoeuvres – is set during the Napoleonic wars and follows the lives of two friends, the irresistible, unscrupulous Becky Sharp (Susan Hampshire) and shy and demure Amelia Osborne (Marilyn Taylerson) after they leave ...
Sat, Dec 2, 1967 50 mins. This five-part BBC satire stars Susan Hampshire as William Thackeray's irreverent heroine. First up: Becky makes a play for her friend's brother. Amelia: Marilyn...
Vanitas Vanitatum. (1x5, December 30, 1967) Season Finale. View All Seasons. A dramatization of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel in five parts by Rex Tucker.
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The Sedleys have become bankrupt and Amelia's engagement to George broken off. Becky, now governess to the younger children of Sir Pitt Crawley, has met his second son Rawdon.
