Vanity Fair (1932 film)

Vanity Fair
File:Vanityfair1932.jpg Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Chester M. Franklin
Produced by	M. H. Hoffman
Written by	F. Hugh Herbert Based on the novel by William Thackeray
Starring	Myrna Loy Conway Tearle Barbara Kent Anthony Bushell
Cinematography	Tom Galligan Harry Neumann
Edited by	Mildred Johnston
Production company	Chester M. Franklin Productions
Distributed by	Allied Pictures
Release dates	March 15, 1932 (1932-03-15)
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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 novel of the same name with the original Regency-era story reset in Twentieth Century Britain. Three years later Thackeray's novel was adapted again as Becky Sharp, the first three-strip technicolor film.

Synopsis

An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.

Other information

This movie is sometimes said to be Myrna Loy's first starring role, but is not. Loy's first starring role in a movie was Turn Back the Hours (1928). Her second starring role was Hardboiled Rose (1929), and her third starring role was The Jazz Cinderella (1930), making this movie Loy's fourth starring role in a movie.

Cast

• Myrna Loy as Becky Sharp
• Conway Tearle as Rawdon Crawley
• Barbara Kent as Amelia Sedley
• Walter Byron as George Osborne
• Anthony Bushell as Dobbin
• Billy Bevan as Joseph Sedley
• Montagu Love as Marquis of Steyne
• Herbert Bunston as Mr. Sedley
• Mary Forbes as Mrs. Sedley
• Lionel Belmore as Sir Pitt Crawley

See also

• Vanity Fair (1915)
• Vanity Fair (1923)

External links

• Vanity Fair at IMDb
• Vanity Fair at AllMovie
• Vanity Fair at the TCM Movie Database
• Vanity Fair complete film on YouTube (Classics movie online)