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Vanity Fair is a american film of genre Drama directed by Chester M. Franklin released in USA on 15 march 1932 with Myrna Loy
Vanity Fair (1932)
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Add to a movie listVanity 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.Actors
Myrna Loy
(Becky Sharp)
Conway Tearle
(Rawdon Crawley)
Barbara Kent
(Amelia Sedley)
Anthony Bushell
(Dobbin)
Walter Byron
(George Osborne)
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