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Vanity Fair (1932 film)

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Vanity Fair
Theatrical release poster
Directed byChester M. Franklin
Written byF. Hugh Herbert
Based on the novel by William Thackeray
Produced byM. H. Hoffman
StarringMyrna Loy
Conway Tearle
Barbara Kent
Anthony Bushell
CinematographyTom Galligan
Harry Neumann
Edited byMildred Johnston
Production
company
Chester M. Franklin Productions
Distributed byAllied Pictures
Release date
  • March 15, 1932 (1932-03-15)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Vanity 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.

Other information

This movie is sometimes said to be Myrna Loy's first starring role, but is not. Loy's first starring role in a movie was Turn Back the Hours (1928). Her second starring role was Hardboiled Rose (1929), and her third starring role was The Jazz Cinderella (1930), making this movie Loy's fourth starring role in a movie.[citation needed]

Cast

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