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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 Amelias 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.
In the early nineteenth century, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley are the two graduates in the current class of a girls boarding school in Britain. While popular Amelia has a promising future, hard Becky, from a poor background, has no prospect at all, that is until Amelia, out of kindness, and her brother Joseph take her in until she can land on her own two feet. Believing her education useless beyond learning the social graces, Becky begins a systematic pursuit of climbing the social ladder, using connections through Amelia, those learned social graces, and the manipulation especially of men by using her flair for the dramatic, this all set against the backdrop of the Battle of Waterloo which involves many of the men in question. While Becky does end up marrying Rawdon Crawley arguably for love, it is her ambition for money and acceptance into the upper echelons of the British social class that may get the better of her.
Miriam Hopkins
Becky Sharp
Frances Dee
Amelia Sedley
Cedric Hardwicke
Marquis of Steyne
Billie Burke
Lady Bareacres
Alison Skipworth
Miss Crawley
Nigel Bruce
Joseph Sedley
Alan Mowbray
Rawdon Crawley
G.P. Huntley
George Osborne
William Stack
Pitt Crawley
George Hassell
Sir Pitt Crawley
William Faversham
Duke of Wellington
Charles Richman
Gen. Tufto
Doris Lloyd
Duchess of Richmond
Colin Tapley
William Dobbin
Leonard Mudie
Tarquin
May Beatty
Briggs
Charles Coleman
Bowles
Bunny Beatty
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