浮华世界

◎片 长 84 Mins ◎导 演 鲁宾·马莫利安 Rouben Mamoulian 洛威·舍曼 Lowell Sherman ....4 (uncredited; started film, died, replaced by Rouben Mamoulian) ◎主 演 米利亚姆·霍普金斯 Miriam Hopkins ....Becky Sharp 弗朗西丝·迪伊 Frances Dee ....Amelia Sedley 塞德里克·哈德威克 Cedric Hardwicke ....Marquis of Steyne 碧莉·伯克 Billie Burke ....Lady Bareacres Alison Skipworth ....Miss Crawley 尼格尔·布鲁斯 Nigel Bruce ....Joseph Sedley Alan Mowbray ....Rawdon Crawley G.P. Huntley ....George Osborne (as G.P. Huntley Jr.) William Stack ....Pitt Crawley George Hassell ....Sir Pitt Crawley William Faversham ....Duke of Wellington Charles Richman ....Gen. Tufto Doris Lloyd ....Duchess of Richmond Colin Tapley ....Capt. William Dobbin Leonard Mudie ....Tarquin May Beatty ....Miss Briggs (Miss Crawley's servant) Charles Coleman ....Bowles Bunny Beatty ....Lady Blanche Finis Barton ....Miss Flowery Olaf Hytten ....The Prince Regent Pauline Garon ....Fifine James 'Hambone' Robinson ....Sedley's black page boy Elspeth Dudgeon ....Miss Pinkerton Tempe Pigott ....The Charwoman Ottola Nesmith ....Lady Jane Crawley Joan Arnold ....Girl (uncredited) Billie Bellport ....Girl (uncredited) Mrs. Leslie Carter ....Woman (uncredited) Margaret Dee ....Young girl (uncredited) Gaston Glass ....British officer (uncredited) Creighton Hale ....British officer (uncredited) Stuart Hall ....(uncredited) Keith Hitchcock ....British officer (uncredited) Viola Moore ....Laura (girl at school) (uncredited) Pat Nixon ....Ballroom dance extra (uncredited) C. Montague Shaw ....British nobleman (uncredited) Reginald Sheffield ....Undetermined Role (uncredited) Pat Somerset ....British officer (uncredited) ◎简 介 Set against the background of the Battle of Waterloo, Becky Sharp is the story of Vanity Fair by Thackeray. Becky and Amelia are girls at school together, but Becky is from a "show biz" family, or in other words, very low class. Becky manages to insinuate herself in Amelia's family and gets to know all their friends. From this possibly auspicious- beginning, she manages to ruin her own life, becoming sick, broke, and lonely, and also ruins the lives of many other "loved ones". In the movie we get to see the class distinctions in England at the time, and get a sense of what it was like for the English military at the time of the Napoleonic wars. In the years just preceding Waterloo, best friends Amelia Sedley (Frances Dee) and Becky Sharp (Miriam Hopkins) graduate from Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Girls. The wealthy Amelia invites the penniless Becky into the bosom of her family home while the manipulative Becky plots her climb up the social ladder. Entirely lacking in scruples and unhampered by conscience or morality, Becky ascends to the very pinnacle of society, crushing anyone who stands in her path. Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, Rouben Mamoulian's adaptation of Thackeray's epic novel Vanity Fair was the first film to be produced in three strip Technicolor.