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United States. Language. English. Full film. Becky Sharp is a 1935 American Technicolor historical drama film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Miriam Hopkins who was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar. Other supporting cast were William Faversham, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth, Nigel Bruce, and Alan ...
Becky Sharp: Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. With Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke. Against the backdrop of Napoleon's Waterloo campaign, an ambitious woman from a family of entertainers begins a destructive climb up the social ladder.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- Rouben Mamoulian
- 1935-06-28
Rebecca "Becky" Sharp, later describing herself as Rebecca, Lady Crawley, is the main protagonist of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1847–48 novel Vanity Fair. She is presented as a cynical social climber who uses her charms to fascinate and seduce upper-class men.
Rent Becky Sharp on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. A novel by William Makepeace Thackeray inspired this tale of a ruthless woman's rise and fall in...
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- Miriam Hopkins
- Rouben Mamoulian
- Drama, Mystery & Thriller
In the tradition of gold digger dramas of the '30s, Becky Sharp (1935) is an often scandalous portrait of a conniving social climber obsessed with rising to the top by whatever means necessary. Loosely modeled on William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair, Becky Sharp was a ground breaking film for its time. The film inaugurated full three ...
- Rouben Mamoulian, Argyle Nelson
- Miriam Hopkins
Becky Sharp. Summaries. Against the backdrop of Napoleon's Waterloo campaign, an ambitious woman from a family of entertainers begins a destructive climb up the social ladder. Set against the background of the Battle of Waterloo, Becky Sharp is the story of Vanity Fair by Thackeray.
"Becky Sharp" (1935) directed by Rouben Mamoulian is a cinematic masterpiece set in 19th-century England. Starring Miriam Hopkins as Becky, it adapts Langdon Mitchell's play from Thackeray's...
- 61 min
- 488
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