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Against the backdrop of Napoleon's Waterloo campaign, an ambitious woman from a family of entertainers begins a destructive climb up the social ladder.Against the backdrop of Napoleon's Waterloo campaign, an ambitious woman from a family of entertainers begins a destructive climb up the social ladder.Against the backdrop of Napoleon's Waterloo campaign, an ambitious woman from a family of entertainers begins a destructive climb up the social ladder.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 4 wins & 3 nominations total
G.P. Huntley
- George Osborne
- (as G.P. Huntley Jr.)
- Director
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- TriviaAlthough the three-strip Technicolor technique had been used previously in short and animated films and in sequences in feature films, Becky Sharp (1935) was the first feature-length film to use the three-strip Technicolor process, which created a separate film register for each of the three primary colors, for the entirety of the film.
- GoofsIn the final scenes, Becky is living in a drab furnished room that is clearly shown to be on the second floor. However, once in the room, a look through a window shows people walking on the street - at the same level as the room itself.
- Quotes
Becky Sharp: To think of her going blind at her age and now she can't even recognize acquaintances. These are glass eyes you are wearing, aren't they? Perfect. Perfect. I do hope that they will continue to attract men.
- Alternate versionsAn early public domain video release of "Becky Sharp" is in black-and-white and runs 59 minutes. Reissue prints from a 1943 re-release run 67 minutes, and were produced in an inferior Cinecolor process. This reissue version remained the only version available for viewing until the original 83-minute Technicolor release was restored in 1984.
- ConnectionsEdited into The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History (1999)
- SoundtracksYoung Molly Who Lives at the Foot of the Hill
(1760) (uncredited)
Traditional
Sung by Miriam Hopkins at the cabaret
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Miriam Hopkins delivers a great performance as a nonchalant woman who cheats her way through society before finding out that what goes around comes around, and of course she must find a way to redeem herself. The color in this film looks a lot better than most people of the day describes it as. And I think the guy who said the color looked like "boiled salmon dipped in mayonese" has had a little too much mayonese. Altogether, I highly recommend this film for anyone who can't seem to find a good movie to watch, because this is the one!
- DrezenMedia
- Dec 31, 2003
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- Also known as
- Lady of Fortune
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- Budget
- $950,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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