Vanity Fair
Cast & Crew
Eugene Nowland
Mrs. Fiske
Leonie Flugrath
Yale Benner
Helen Fulton
William Wadsworth
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In the early nineteenth century, English orphan Becky Sharp finds charitable refuge in a fashionable girls' school but happily accepts an invitation to stay in the spacious home of her school friend, Amelia Sedley. The shrewd Becky sets her sights on Amelia's brother Joseph, but after a change in the Sedley family fortune and Amelia's subsequent marriage to the wealthy George Osborne, Becky ends up with another gentleman, Rawdon Crawley. Poverty follows their marriage, and Becky pursues a course toward Lord Steyne, forcing a separation from Rawdon. During her romance, the events surrounding Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo mirror the disastrous results of her own ambitions.
Director
Eugene Nowland
Cast
Mrs. Fiske
Leonie Flugrath
Yale Benner
Helen Fulton
William Wadsworth
Richard Tucker
Robert Brower
Frank Mcglynn
Bigelow Cooper
George A. Wright
Maurice Stewart Jr.
Helen Strickland
Philip Quinn
John Sturgeon
Arthur Row
Mrs. Westerley
Mrs. Austin Brown
Alice Grey
Charles Sutton
Frank A. Lyon
Florence Stover
Mrs. G. M. Clarke
Lena Davril
George Melville
Jessie Stevens
William Wirth
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Some sources list actress Leonie Flugrath as Shirley Mason, the name she used increasingly in films. The entire Edison studio was used for this film, which had a cast of over two hundred. Some scenes were shot in Boston and at a girls' school near Yonkers, NY. Among the many other versions of Vanity Fair are the 1923 Goldwyn production, directed by Hugo Ballin, and the 1935 RKO production, Becky Sharp, starring Miriam Hopkins and directed by Rouben Mamoulian.
