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    Rebecca "Becky" Sharp, later describing herself as Rebecca, Lady Crawley, is the main protagonist of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1847–48 novel Vanity...
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  • Becky Sharp is a 1935 American Technicolor historical drama film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Miriam Hopkins, who plays the eponymous protagonist...
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  • Becky Sharp, from Vanity Fair Becky Sharp (film) a 1935 film Becky Sharp, unrelated character from Kitchen Confidential (TV series) This disambiguation...
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    English author William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the...
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    has starred as Emma Decody in the thriller Bates Motel (2013–2017), Becky Sharp in the period drama Vanity Fair (2018), and spy Sidonie “Sid” Baker in...
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  • distributed by ITV and Amazon Studios. The series stars Olivia Cooke as Becky Sharp, Tom Bateman as Captain Rawdon Crawley, Claudia Jessie as Amelia Sedley...
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  • version made notable changes in the development of the main character Becky Sharp, played by Reese Witherspoon. The film received several awards and nominations...
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    nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the 1935 film Becky Sharp, becoming the first performer nominated for a color picture. She was...
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    classic novel Vanity Fair and directed by Mira Nair. Her character, Becky Sharp, is a poor woman with a ruthless determination to find fortune and establish...
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    additional screen credits included June Moon, Little Women, Of Human Bondage, Becky Sharp, and Payment on Demand. She co-starred with her husband Joel McCrea in...
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  • Blair has been compared to vintage film and literary figures, including Becky Sharp and Lizzie Eustace. She is commonly likened to Lila Fowler of Francine...
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  • her friend Becky Sharp (Myrna Loy), young ladies who agewise are in their twenties. Amelia is from a rich, well-connected family, while Becky is from very...
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    White & Blonde Elle Woods Also executive producer 2004 Vanity Fair Becky Sharp 2005 Walk the Line June Carter Cash Just like Heaven Elizabeth Masterson...
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  • She is best known for her roles as Zoe Angell in May to December and Becky Sharp in the BBC adaptation of the novel Vanity Fair. Matheson left May to...
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  • the 1999 Biarritz International Television Festival for her role as Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair, and she also received a nomination for British Academy...
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    Rebecca (1940), and Suspicion (1941). He appeared in two landmark films: Becky Sharp (1935), the first feature film in full Technicolor, and Bwana Devil (1952)...
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    Progress (1678) —, follows the career of fortune-hunting adventuress Becky Sharp, her progress echoing the earlier Moll Flanders. His earlier novel The...
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    March and Charles Laughton, the first ever three-strip Technicolor film Becky Sharp (1935), King Solomon's Mines (1937), The Keys of the Kingdom (1944),...
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    credits. Her best known appearances includes The Old Dark House and Becky Sharp (1935). She also acted in Bride of Frankenstein (1935), The Last Outpost...
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  • 2016, Cara Kelly suggested that the term dates to the social climber Becky Sharp, protagonist of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair (1848)...
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    of Fine Arts degree in performance. In 2005, Hayes appeared as a chef Becky Sharp on Fox's short-lived Kitchen Confidential. Also, in that same year, she...
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    tests. In this capacity, she made brief appearances in films such as Becky Sharp (1935), The Great Ziegfeld (1936), and Small Town Girl (1936). In some...
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    first feature film shot entirely in advanced three-strip Technicolor, Becky Sharp. The movie was coproduced with Pioneer Pictures, founded by Cooper—who...
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    novel by William Makepeace Thackeray—in which he portrayed the son of Becky Sharp. However, his scenes were deleted from the final cut and are only available...
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  • which the French aristocracy was hostile toward Jews. Vanity Fair's Becky Sharp is considered an archetype of the social climber, having flirted her...
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    perhaps most famous for starring as Becky Sharp in the original 1899 production of Langdon Mitchell's Becky Sharp, a play based on William Makepeace Thackeray's...
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    Worlds Katharine Hepburn Alice Adams Alice Adams Miriam Hopkins Becky Sharp Becky Sharp Merle Oberon Kitty Vane The Dark Angel 1936 (9th) Luise Rainer...
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  • Court Theatre, including Endgame and Live Like Pigs. In 1963 she played Becky Sharp in the musical Vanity Fair, alongside George Baker and Dame Sybil Thorndike...
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    works that displayed a sneaking fondness for roguish upstarts, such as Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair and the title characters of The Luck of Barry Lyndon and...
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    and Cressida (1932), Mrs. Moonlight (1930), Michael and Mary (1929), Becky Sharp (1929), The Phantom Lover (1928), Caponsacchi (1926), The Immortal Thief...
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