Becky Sharp
Starring: Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke
Director: Rouben Mamoulian, Lowell Sherman
Writer: Francis Edward Faragoh
Producer: Kenneth Macgowan, Robert Edmond Jones
Becky Sharp is a 1935 American historical drama film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Miriam Hopkins, who plays the eponymous protagonist. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Other supporting cast were William Faversham, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth, Nigel Bruce, and Alan Mowbray.
Trivia
- Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actress.
- Based on Becky Sharp (1899 play by Langdon Mitchell).
- Based on Vanity Fair (1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray).
- John Hay "Jock" Whitney and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney formed Pioneer Pictures specifically to produce color films, and signed a contract to release Pioneer films through RKO Radio Pictures.
- Original director Lowell Sherman began filming on December 3, 1934.
- The early Technicolor systems required massive lighting, which generated high temperatures on the set.
Previous Showings
4 Runs • 2 Festivals
513 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (July 21, 1935)
Original Run: July 21, 1935 (Sunday - Tuesday)
All runs on record (4):
- July 21, 1935 (Sunday - Tuesday)Miriam Hopkins, Francis Dee
- February 24, 1988 · 0 ticketsw/ Toll of the Sea
- April 29 - 30, 2015 · 248 ticketsCary Grant every Fri-Sat-Sun Plus Ernst Lubitsch and Rouben Mamoulian every Wedsw/ Design for Living
- April 10 - 11, 2025 · 265 ticketsLubitsch, Mamoulian, Sternberg Three Great Directorsw/ The Gay Desperado