BECKY SHARP 1935
Channel: All For All
Date: 2020-03-14

Set against the background of the Battle of Waterloo, Becky Sharp is the story of Vanity Fair by Thackeray. Becky and Amelia are girls at school together, but Becky is from a “show biz” family, or in other words, very low class. Becky manages to insinuate herself in Amelia’s family and gets to know all their friends. From this possibly auspicious- beginning, she manages to ruin her own life, becoming sick, broke, and lonely, and also ruins the lives of many other “loved ones”. In the movie we get to see the class distinctions in England at the time, and get a sense of what it was like for the English military at the time of the Napoleonic wars.
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GENRE: Classic Films
STARRING: Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke
YEAR: 1935
COLOR/BW: Black & White
MOVIE TYPE: Public Domain Films
DECADE: 1930s
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license used:

PUBLIC DOMAIN MOVIES
CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
Public Domain Dedication
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en