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Vanity Fair is a 1915 silent film drama directed by Eugene Nowland and Charles Brabin and starring Mrs. Fiske, a renowned Broadway stage actress. The Edison Company produced and released the film. Mrs. Fiske had starred in the 1899 hit Broadway play Becky Sharp based on William Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Here she recreates the role for Edison's cameras. This film marks Mrs. Fiske's second feature film as she had starred in Tess of the d'Urbervilles for Adolph Zukor in 1913. Despite the popularity of Vanity Fair, Mrs. Fiske never made another motion picture.An earlier version was made in 1911 with Helen Gardner. A British feature appeared in 1922 and in 1923 Goldwyn Pictures made Vanity Fair.
The film is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.
Original Release
10/06/1915
US Release
10/06/1915
Cast
Name | Character |
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Minnie Maddern Fiske | Becky Sharp |
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 | Rawdon Crawley |
George A. Wright | Lord Steyne |
Directors
Charles Brabin, Eugene Nowland
Writers
William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Sumner Williams
Cast
Name | Character |
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Minnie Maddern Fiske | Becky Sharp |
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 | Rawdon Crawley |
George A. Wright | Lord Steyne |
Maurice Steuart | 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. Lyons | Lord Crawley |