Vanity Fair
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6642 feet
Directed by Eugene Nowland
Cast: Mrs. Fiske (Minnie Maddern Fiske) [Becky Sharp], Leonie Flugrath (Shirley Mason) [Becky Sharp, as a child], Yale Benner [Rakedell Sharp], Helen Fulton [Amelia Sedley], William Wadsworth [Joseph Sedley], Richard Tucker [George Osborne], Robert Brower [Mr. Osborne], Frank McGlynn (Sr.) [Captain William Dobbin], Bigelow Cooper [Rawden Crawley], George A. Wright [Lord Steyne], Maurice Stewart Jr. [George Sedley Osborne], Helen Strickland [Lady Steyne], Philip Quinn [Napoleon], John Sturgeon [Major O’Dowd], Arthur Row [Pitt Crawley], Mrs. Westerley [Miss Pinkerton], Mrs. Austin Brown [Mrs. Sedley], Alice Grey [Miss Jemima Pinkerton], Charles Sutton [Mr. Sedley], Frank A. Lyon [Lord Crawley], Florence Stover [Lady Crawley], Mrs. G.M. Clarke [Martha Crawley], Lena Davril [Miss Swartz], George Melville [Duke of Wellington], Jessie Stevens [Mrs. O’Dowd], William Wirth [Rawdon Crawley Jr.]
Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, production; distributed by Kleine-Edison Feature Service. / Scenario by Charles Sumner Williams and Eugene Nowland, from the novel Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. Assistant directors, Oscar W. Forster and Harry Jay ‘Doc’ Smith. Cinematography by Otto Brautigan. / © 25 September 1915 by Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated [LP6496]. Released 6 October 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novel was previously filmed as Vanity Fair (1911). The novel was subsequently filmed as Vanity Fair (1922).
Drama: Historical.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.4714.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821) - Orphans
Listing updated: 5 October 2014.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.4714; Limbacher-Feature p. 265; Tarbox-Lost p. 221 : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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