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Vanity Fair is a american film of genre Drama directed by Charles Brabin released in USA on 5 october 1915 with Mrs. Fiske

Vanity Fair (1915)

Vanity Fair
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Released in USA 5 october 1915
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OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating59% 2.974232.974232.974232.974232.97423

Vanity Fair is a 1915 silent film drama directed by Eugene Nowland and Charles Brabin and starring Mrs. Fiske, a renowned Broadway stage actress. The Edison Company produced and released the film. Mrs. Fiske had starred in the 1899 hit Broadway play Becky Sharp based on William Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Here she recreates the role for Edison's cameras. This film marks Mrs. Fiske's second feature film as she had starred in Tess of the d'Urbervilles for Adolph Zukor in 1913. Despite the popularity of Vanity Fair, Mrs. Fiske never made another motion picture.

An earlier version was made in 1911 with Helen Gardner. A British feature appeared in 1922 and in 1923 Goldwyn Pictures made Vanity Fair.

The film is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.

Actors

Mrs. Fiske

(Becky Sharp)
Richard Tucker

(George Osborne)
Robert Brower

(Mr. Osborne)
Frank McGlynn Sr.

(Captain William Dobbin)
Bigelow Cooper

(Rawdon Crawley)
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