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| | Becky Sharp (1935) |
 | | BECKY SHARP was sold to TV only in a shortened BandW print or in CINECOLOR reissue prints. | | | Plot Summary: Set against the background of the Battle of Waterloo, Becky Sharp is the story of Vanity Fair by Thackeray... | | | BECKY SHARP, historically important as the first feature film in full, three-color TECHNICOLOR, has always fascinated me. It's history, however, is frustrating and disappointing. |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026104
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Vanity Fair (English Library) |
| | Becky Sharp is the quintessential anti-heroine -- she's very greedy and cold, yet she's also so smart and determined that it's hard not to have a grudging liking for her. | | | Sharp is an effective name for Becky, exposing her character and incisive wit. | | | Many consider William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) a minor novelist who wrote in a time when George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Anthony Trollope ruled the roost of British literature. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140430350?v=glance
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Becky Sharp - Encyclopedia Article |
| | Becky Sharp is the main character in the novel Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847. | | | The 1935 film, Becky Sharp, based on the novel, tells the story 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. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/b/becky-sharp.html
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| | Sharp (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Becky Sharp, the main character in Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair (also the name of a Swedish rock band) | | | Sharp, Abraham (1651-1742), English schoolmaster, mathematician and astronomer | | | Sharp, Margaret, Baroness Sharp of Guildford (born 1938), member of the British House of Lords |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARP
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| | Becky Sharp -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | The main character of the novel Vanity Fair (1847–48) by British author William Makepeace Thackeray, is Becky Sharp, a poor drawing instructor's clever, selfish, unprincipled daughter, who fights her way up through society to an advantageous marriage. | | | She earned renown for her Ibsen roles and for the parts of Becky Sharp in a dramatization... | | | More results on "Becky Sharp" when you join. |
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| | Becky Sharp Becky Sharp is the main character in the novel English literature. | | | Becky Thatcher Rebecca "Becky" Thatcher is a character in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. | | | Becky Blasband Becky Blasband (born The Real World. |
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| | Margery Sharp -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | The main character of the novel Vanity Fair (1847–48) by British author William Makepeace Thackeray, is Becky Sharp, a poor drawing instructor's clever, selfish, unprincipled daughter, who fights her way up through society to an advantageous marriage. | | | Sharp, Phillip A. American molecular biologist, awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Richard J. Roberts, for his independent discovery that individual genes are often interrupted by long sections of DNA that do not encode protein structure. | | | Sharp was born to British parents on the island of Malta on Jan. 25, 1905. |
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| | Sharp (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Becky Sharp, the main character in Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair (also the name of a Swedish rock band) | | | Sharp, Phillip Allen (born 1944), U.S. geneticist and molecular biologist | | | Sharp, Margaret, Baroness Sharp of Guildford (born 1938), member of the British House of Lords |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARP
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| | Vanity Fair (2004) |
| | Mira Nair's vision of Becky Sharp and the hypocrisy of Regency Britain is so far off the mark, she should be ashamed of herself for even using the title 'Vanity Fair.' All of Becky's backstabbing guiles have been down-graded to a form of pluckiness that completely fails to hit any mark of truth or irony... | | | Plot Outline: Growing up poor in London, Becky Sharp (Witherspoon) defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia. | | | 'Vanity Fair,' the novel, is a sharp and often hilarious social commentary. |
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| | Becky Sharp, or Rebecca Sharp, the principal female character in Thackeray's Vanity Fair. | | | You Are Here: Factopia Home » Becky Sharp | | | She is represented as a friendless girl, "with the dismal precocity of poverty," determined to rise in the world. |
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http://www.factopia.com/aiton-encyclopedia-vol1/becky-sharp.htm
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| | Becky Sharp - definition of Becky Sharp in Encyclopedia |
| | Becky Sharp is the main character in the novel Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847. | | | The 1935 film Becky Sharp, based on the novel, tells the story 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. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Becky_Sharp
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| | In one extravagant sequence in her adaptation of Vanity Fair, Becky Sharp, played by Reese Witherspoon, and a bevy of more respectable dames swap their lace and gowns for skimpy silks in a Slave Dance performed for King George IV. | | | Credit her and her screenwriting team with paring 800 pages to a little more than two hours of screen time (though Rouben Mamoulians Becky Sharp, starring Miriam Hopkins, managed to get it down to 87 minutes in 1935, and a 1932 version with Myrna Loy clocked in at 78). | | | Indeed, implicit in Thackerays irony is the suggestion that had Becky been born a man, she might have been a match for Bonaparte, her knavery equally worshiped. |
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http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/movies/documents/04091923.asp
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| | Bonnie Cannon, Judy Watson, Kari Sullivan, Danette O'Brien, Kathy Edwards, Wendy Veazy, Cathy Sharp, Marcia Windley, Becky Garner, Kathy Williams, Bev Atkinson, Betsey Godfrey, Patty Kapolka, Pat Lee, Eric Jones, Alison Tingle, Lynelle Hyland, Kim Zellahrt | | | Jamie Myers, Jen Coulbourn, Patty Kapolka, Diane Morgan, Phyliss Jones, Amy Pearson, Diane Huffman, Bonnie Timmons, Betsey Godfrey, Carlton Parker, Sandy Gregory, Kari Sullivan, Cathy Sharp, Karen Higgins, Bonnie McSpadden, Bonnie Cannon, Becky Garner, Danette O'Brien, Mike King, Betty Farris, Libby Jerman, Ruth Harris, | | | Gayla Sullivan, Diane Morgan, Phyliss Jones, Anne Blelie, Patty Kapolka, Debbie Stark, Betsey Godfrey, Diane Huffman, Jamie Myers, Carlton Parker, Susan Nancarrow, Sandy Gregory, Kari Sullivan, Karen Higgins, Wendy Veazey, Alison Tingle, Laurie Phillips, Eric Jones, Connie Whitaker, Jamie Johnson, Leah Van Gelder, Elizabeth Farris, Debbie Esterson, Nicole Scott |
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| | Miriam Hopkins, Bainbridge Georgia, actress, Becky Sharp, These Three October 18 in History |
| | Miriam Hopkins, Bainbridge Georgia, actress, Becky Sharp, These Three October 18 in History | | | Miriam Hopkins, Bainbridge Georgia, actress, Becky Sharp, These Three | | | When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. |
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| | William Makepeace Thackeray - Free Online Library |
| | During the Napoleonic Wars, Becky Sharp raises herself from poverty to a high social standing, and her friend, Amelia, finds love. | | | In Vanity Fair he gave a panoramic picture of high life in England, and created one of the most fascinating and immoral female characters, Becky Sharp. | | | The book brought him prosperity and made him established writer and popular lecturer in Europe and in the United States. |
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| | William Makepeace Thackeray - Free Online Library |
| | During the Napoleonic Wars, Becky Sharp raises herself from poverty to a high social standing, and her friend, Amelia, finds love. | | | In Vanity Fair he gave a panoramic picture of high life in England, and created one of the most fascinating and immoral female characters, Becky Sharp. | | | He called Victorian times "if not the most moral, certainly the most squeamish." Once, as an editor, he rejected an Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem because it employed the word harlot. |
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| | Director Mira Nair dusts off her favorite novel for a critique of class and race, English-style |
| | So was Thackeray's take on England's colonial policies -- another theme that "Becky Sharp" ignored. | | | Nair's version features a prominent scene involving the character of Rhoda Swartz, a wealthy mixed-race woman who is set up to marry a white man. In "Becky Sharp," there is no such scene, even though Thackeray has it in his novel. | | | Nair dramatized the story of a New York Muslim who went missing in the attacks and was suspected of being a terrorist -- until his remains were recovered in the rubble of the World Trade Center disaster and authorities realized that he had tried to rescue people from the buildings. |
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| | VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Vanity Fair : Plot |
| | As a result, the public was generally pleased by Fiske's re-creation of her famous stage role as William Makepeace Thackeray's remarkable resourceful heroine Becky Sharp (a character later played by actresses as varied as Joyce Compton and Miriam Hopkins). | | | Fiske's fascinating, sinister stage performance as Becky Sharp became. | | | Legendary stage star Minnie Maddern Fiske made her screen debut in the 1913 version of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Ubervilles. |
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| | ‘Vanity Fair’ Bollywood style - AT THE MOVIES - MSNBC.com |
| | Reese Witherspoon stars as Becky Sharp in this Bollywood inspired take on Thackeray's classic story. | | | Mira Nair’s equally colorful new version of “Vanity Fair,” starring Reese Witherspoon as Thackeray’s lustily resourceful social climber, Becky Sharp, is likely to be remembered for more than its rich visuals. | | | William Makepeace Thackeray’s seminal 1848 novel, “Vanity Fair,” was filmed in the silent era, in 1932 with Myrna Loy, and in 1935 with Miriam Hopkins. |
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| | Premiere Magazine: Vanity Fair |
| | In an early chapter of William Makepeace Thackeray’s groundbreaking mid-19th century novel Vanity Fair, one of its lead female characters, the treacherously pragmatic Becky Sharp, gleefully tosses a copy of Samuel Johnson’s English dictionary out the window of the carriage driving her away from the boarding school where she spent her (presumably miserable) formative years. | | | Things pick up, however, when the ineffable Eileen Atkins appears as Matilda Crawley, a snarky dowager who takes a liking to Becky while she’s ensconced in a group of more provincial Crawleys, upon which she takes Sharp under her wing and whisks her to London. | | | Jim Broadbent, as George’s father, an unspeakable social-climbing merchant, is a well-focused villain, but some fans of old television comedy might find his performance inadvertently funny, since he speaks in the same voice that Dave Thomas used playing Colonel Pickering in an SCTV sendup of My Fair Lady. |
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| | Amazon.com: DVD: Vanity Fair (Widescreen Edition) (2004) |
| | In William Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair the reader can follow the orphan Rebecca `Becky' Sharp struggle to make her life better than it was for her departed father, a talented painter with modest success. | | | William Makepeace Thackeray's "Vanity Fair," first published serially in 1847-48, tells the story of the fortunes of two women, the ambitious and amoral Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a struggling painter and a French opera singer, and the passive Amelia Sedley, the wellborn but sheltered daughter of rich merchant. | | | Vanity Fair is shot in bright and vibrant colors, which is often enhanced by the many flamboyant costumes that the characters are wearing. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0006FO8E8?v=glance
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| | Turner Classic Movies This Month Article |
| | Hopkins' other film mentor, Rouben Mamoulian, directed her as Becky Sharp (1935) in a version of Thackeray's Vanity Fair that became the first movie to be made in three-strip Technicolor. | | | The films in TCM's tribute to Miriam Hopkins include Trouble in Paradise (1932), The Smiling Lieutenant (1931), Becky Sharp (1935) and The Lady With Red Hair (1940). | | | Miriam Hopkins (1902-1972), a versatile actress who could play both floozies and grand ladies, was also known for her fiery temperament. |
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http://www.turnerclassicmovies.com/ThisMonth/Article/0,,6084861201,00.html
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| | MTV.com - Movies - Vanity Fair |
| | First filmed in 1911, William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel Vanity Fair has undergone several cinemadaptations, most memorably as the pioneering Technicolor feature Becky Sharp (1935). | | | Of the large cast, the biggest surprise is former 2-reel comedy star Billy Bevan, who makes a surprisingly effective Joe Sedley (the character played in the 1935 Becky Sharp by Nigel Bruce). | | | This 1932 version is perhaps the least known, probably because it has been updated to the 20th century and it isn't terribly good. |
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| | Vanity Fair (1932/I) |
| | For pleasure value, the ending of "Becky Sharp" is ultimately more enjoyable, although aesthetically, and from the flow of the story, there is no doubt that the ending of "Vanity Fair" is the better one, whether or not you actually like it. | | | Though based on the same story as "Becky Sharp", this version had a different ending, which is interesting to see because most of the rest of the films were almost identical. | | | "Vanity Fair" is similar to "Craig's Wife" in that no matter how bad the main character is, you have to love her. |
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| | Turner Classic Movies This Month Article |
| | Hopkins' other film mentor, Rouben Mamoulian, directed her as Becky Sharp (1935) in a version of Thackeray's Vanity Fair that became the first movie to be made in three-strip Technicolor. | | | The films in TCM's tribute to Miriam Hopkins include Trouble in Paradise (1932), The Smiling Lieutenant (1931), Becky Sharp (1935) and The Lady With Red Hair (1940). | | | An established Broadway actress when she was signed for films by Paramount in 1930, Hopkins quickly became a top movie star thanks to her appearances in two films by sophisticated-comedy master Ernst Lubitsch. |
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| | LookSmart - Search results for "William Sharp" |
| | Read a tale in which during the Napoleonic Wars, Becky Sharp raises herself from poverty to a high social standing, and her friend, Amelia, finds love. | | | Buy William Sharp art or shop for thousands of other items from All Posters, the world's largest poster and print store. | | | Services The Grove Dictionary of Art Sharp, William (b London, 29 Jan 1749; d Chiswick, London, 25 July 1824). |
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| | Movie Photos: Vanity Fair |
| | This time, with the aid of William Makepeace Thackeray's marvelous novel, she makes a movie bursting with rich characters, and she draws a magnificent performance out of every member of the large cast, especially Reese Witherspoon who gives us more than we even suspected she had as she plays Becky Sharp. | | | Almost four decades ago Masterpiece Theater did a wonderful, unforgettable mini-series of "Vanity Fair," but, in all of those hours, Susan Hampshire, as Becky, never equaled even ten minutes of Witherspoon's Becky. | | | Told against a lush and vast canvas, Mira Nair's VANITY FAIR is easily one of the very best movies of the year. |
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| | Penguin Reading Guides Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray |
| | Besides maintaining Becky Sharp as the narrative spine of the film, I was keen to preserve the democratic swirl of the book and to that effect wanted to keep all the important subplots alive. | | | I wanted to preserve Dobbin as the moral center of the story, give Rawdon weight so that his love story with Becky could become credible and affecting, show Amelia's mettle so she doesn't sink into becoming the whimpering companion to Becky's fire. | | | Vanity Fair has been one of my favorite novels since I was sixteen years old. |
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| | Review - Vanity Fair |
| | Written by Andrew Davies, screen writer of the brilliant 1995 Pride and Prejudice miniseries, and directed by Marc Munden, this version also goes out of its way to make sure we notice how much the heroine Becky Sharp (Natasha Little) and "hero" Captain Rawdon Crawley (Nathaniel Parker) resemble Scarlett O’Hara and Cap’n Rhett Butler. | | | And when Crawley finally walks out on Becky (who realizes too late that she cares for him), we half-expect him to say, "Frankly, my dear....." Davies resists the temptation. | | | Davies also tries to soften Becky’s character, turning her one noble gesture at the end into an act of redemption and even suggesting a happy ending for her with rich nice-guy Jos, who doesn’t seem to mind that she’s an adventuress. |
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