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Vanity Fair (1998 TV serial) is a film of genre Drama with Natasha Little
Vanity Fair (1998 TV serial) (1998)
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Vanity Fair is a BBC television drama serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name broadcast in 1998. The screenplay was written by Andrew Davies.
The BBC previously adapted the novel as a serial twice before, in 1967 and also in 1987.
Synopsis
For a full length summary of the book see: Vanity Fair plot summary.Actors
Natasha Little
(Becky Sharp)
Philip Glenister
(William Dobbin)
Nathaniel Parker
(Rawdon Crawley)
Jeremy Swift
(Jos Sedley)
Miriam Margolyes
(Miss Crawley)
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