Becky Sharp
“YOU WILL SEE HER TRANSFORMED BY THE WONDEROUS NEW TECHNICOLOR”
1935 · 1 h 24 min
Rouben MamoulianCast
Miriam Hopkins 
Frances Dee 
Cedric Hardwicke 
Billie Burke 
Alison Skipworth 
Nigel Bruce
Credits
Written by: William Makepeace Thackeray
Plot
In early nineteenth-century England, ambitious and unscrupulous Becky Sharp schemes her way up through society.
Sinekatalog’s take
Rouben Mamoulian's film, from Thackeray's Vanity Fair, with Miriam Hopkins, is the first feature in three-strip Technicolor, and Hopkins earned an Oscar nomination.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 5.8 / 10 (1,513 votes)
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