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1967 TV serial

Not who you're looking for? Others named Vanity Fair: American monthly periodical about popular culture, fashion, · 1922 film by Walter Courtney Rowden · 1939 television series · 1932 film by Chester M. Franklin

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Vanity Fair is a BBC television drama serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 novel of the same name broadcast in 1967. It was the first drama serial in colour produced by the BBC. Vanity Fair starred Susan Hampshire as Becky Sharp. The serial was also broadcast in 1972 in the US on PBS television as part of Masterpiece Theatre, and Hampshire received an Emmy Award for her portrayal in 1973.

This was the second of four television adaptations of Vanity Fair produced by the BBC; other serials had been transmitted in 1956/57, in 1987, and in 1998.

Contents

Plot summary

For a full-length summary of the book, see: Vanity Fair plot summary.

Cast

Susan Hampshire as Becky Sharp

Dyson Lovell as Rawdon Crawley

Bryan Marshall as Captain Dobbin

Marilyn Taylerson as Amelia Osborne

Roy Marsden as George Osborne

John Moffatt as Jos Sedley

Barbara Couper as Miss Matilda Crawley

Barbara Leake as Mrs. Sedley

Michael Rothwell as Pitt Crawley

Deddie Davies as Lady Crawley

Howard Taylor as Horrocks

John Welsh as Sir Pitt Crawley

Mark Allington as Ensign Stubble

Thelma Barlow as Miss Briggs

Richard Caldicot as Mr. Osborne

Robert Flemyng as Lord Steyne

Awards

1973: Emmy Award - Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Drama/Comedy - Limited Episodes) - Susan Hampshire.

DVD

This adaptation is now available on DVD, distributed by Acorn Media UK.

Article from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), where it is maintained by volunteer editors.

Notable quotes

“Profoundly grateful, and as if I had swallowed a small baby. … Why, they are perfect beasts of oysters!”
— Thackeray's reply when asked how he felt upon eating an unusually large American oyster during his first visit to the United States (1852–3); reported in James Grant Wilson, Thackeray in the United States: 1852–3, 1855–6 (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1904), pp. 81–82.
“He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.”
— Ch. 2: "The Snob Royal"
“As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.”
— Ch. 40.
“The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?”
— Ch. 20.
“Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.”
— Ch. 61.
“Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room: and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will no more be seen.”
— "On Letts's Diary", p. 292.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Not who you're looking for? Others named Vanity Fair: American monthly periodical about popular culture, fashion, · 1922 film by Walter Courtney Rowden · 1939 television series · 1932 film by Chester M. Franklin

Notable quotes

“Profoundly grateful, and as if I had swallowed a small baby. … Why, they are perfect beasts of oysters!”
— Thackeray's reply when asked how he felt upon eating an unusually large American oyster during his first visit to the United States (1852–3); reported in James Grant Wilson, Thackeray in the United States: 1852–3, 1855–6 (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1904), pp. 81–82.
“He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.”
— Ch. 2: "The Snob Royal"
“As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.”
— Ch. 40.
“The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?”
— Ch. 20.
“Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.”
— Ch. 61.
“Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room: and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will no more be seen.”
— "On Letts's Diary", p. 292.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Article

Vanity Fair is a BBC television drama serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 novel of the same name broadcast in 1967. It was the first drama serial in colour produced by the BBC. Vanity Fair starred Susan Hampshire as Becky Sharp. The serial was also broadcast in 1972 in the US on PBS television as part of Masterpiece Theatre, and Hampshire received an Emmy Award for her portrayal in 1973.

This was the second of four television adaptations of Vanity Fair produced by the BBC; other serials had been transmitted in 1956/57, in 1987, and in 1998.

Contents

Plot summary

For a full-length summary of the book, see: Vanity Fair plot summary.

Cast

Susan Hampshire as Becky Sharp

Dyson Lovell as Rawdon Crawley

Bryan Marshall as Captain Dobbin

Marilyn Taylerson as Amelia Osborne

Roy Marsden as George Osborne

John Moffatt as Jos Sedley

Barbara Couper as Miss Matilda Crawley

Barbara Leake as Mrs. Sedley

Michael Rothwell as Pitt Crawley

Deddie Davies as Lady Crawley

Howard Taylor as Horrocks

John Welsh as Sir Pitt Crawley

Mark Allington as Ensign Stubble

Thelma Barlow as Miss Briggs

Richard Caldicot as Mr. Osborne

Robert Flemyng as Lord Steyne

Awards

1973: Emmy Award - Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Drama/Comedy - Limited Episodes) - Susan Hampshire.

DVD

This adaptation is now available on DVD, distributed by Acorn Media UK.

Article from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), where it is maintained by volunteer editors.

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Vanity Fair is a BBC television drama serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 novel of the same name broadcast in 1967. It was the first drama serial in colour produced by the BBC. Vanity Fair starred Susan Hampshire as Becky Sharp. The serial was also broadcast in 1972 in the US on PBS television as part of Masterpiece Theatre, and Hampshire received an Emmy Award for her portrayal in 1973.