Becky Sharp (1935) is an American historical drama 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.
The film 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 play was made famous in the late 1890s by actress Minnie Maddern Fiske. The screenplay was written by Francis Edward Faragoh. The film was Considered a landmark in cinema as the first film to use the newly developed three-strip Technicolor production, opening the way for a growing number of colored films to be made in Britain and the United States in the years leading up to World War II.
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.
Plot
Becky Sharp (Miriam Hopkins), a socially ambitious young lady Inglés Manages to survive During the years following Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.
Efforts to advance in her herself, she Manages to link up with a number of gentlemen: the Marquis of Steyne (Cedric Hardwicke), Joseph Sedley (Nigel Bruce), Rawdon Crawley (Alan Mowbray), and George Osborne (GP Huntley Jr.).
She rises to the top of British society and Becomes the scourge of the social circle, offending the other ladies: such as Lady Bareacres (Billie Burke). Sharp falls into the humiliation of singing for her meals in a beer hall.
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