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Vanity Fair is a 2004 historical drama film directed by Mira Nair and adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray 's 1848 novel of the same name. The novel has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations. Nair's version made notable changes in the development of the main character Becky Sharp, played by Reese Witherspoon.
Main. Olivia Cooke as Becky Sharp, the daughter of a French opera singer and an artist father. Sharp is a cynical social climber who uses her charms to fascinate and seduce upper-class men. Claudia Jessie as Amelia Sedley, a good-natured naive young girl, of a wealthy London family who is Becky's friend from Miss Pinkerton's academy and invites ...
The Insider (film) The Insider. (film) The Insider is a 1999 American biographical drama film directed by Michael Mann, from a screenplay adapted by Eric Roth and Mann based on Marie Brenner 's 1996 Vanity Fair article "The Man Who Knew Too Much". The film stars Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Bruce McGill, Diane Venora, and ...
Vanity Fair at Wikisource. Vanity Fair is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial (the last containing Parts 19 and 20) from 1847 to 1848, carrying ...
The Perfect Storm – "The Storm", Outside Magazine, October 1994 – Sebastian Junger [8] A Private War – "Marie Colvin's Private War" Vanity Fair, August 2012 – Marie Brenner. Proof of Life – "Adventures in the Ransom Trade" Vanity Fair, May 1998 – William Prochnau [9]
Becky Sharp is a 1935 American Technicolor historical drama film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Miriam Hopkins who plays the eponymous protagonist. She 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 Mowbray. [2]
British. Rebecca " Becky " Sharp, later describing herself as Rebecca, Lady Crawley, is the main protagonist of William Makepeace Thackeray 's 1847–48 novel [note 1] Vanity Fair. She is presented as a cynical social climber who uses her charms to fascinate and seduce upper-class men. This is in contrast with the clinging, dependent Amelia ...
Vanity Fair is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Chester M. Franklin and starring Myrna Loy, Conway Tearle and Anthony Bushell. The film is modernized adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray 's 1848 novel of the same name with the original Regency -era story reset in Twentieth Century Britain. Three years later Thackeray's novel ...