Vanity Fair (1987 TV serial)

Vanity Fair was a BBC Pebble Mill Production consisting of 16 half-hour episodes. Shot on location and in studio. Locations included Winchester and Thetford. Virtually all the interiors were shot in Studio A at Pebble Mill. The series starring Eve Matheson as Rebecca Sharp, Rebecca Saire as Amelia Sedley, Simon Dormandy as William Dobbin, Jack Klaff as Rawdon Crawley, David Swift as Mr. Sedley, James Saxon as Joseph 'Jos' Sedley, Gillian Raine as Mrs. Sedley, Benedict Taylor as George Osborne, Shaughan Seymour as Pitt Crawley, Philippa Urquhart as Miss Briggs and Freddie Jones as Sir Pitt Crawley.

The story is set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Becky Sharp, a poor orphan girl, schemes for money and position. Her most-used stepladder is her old school friend, Amelia Sedley. Both women marry soldiers, and both of them are affected by the Battle of Waterloo.

References

External links

Vanity Fair at the Internet Movie Database
Vanity Fair at the British Film Institute

William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair

Characters	Becky Sharp

Film	Vanity Fair (1922) Vanity Fair (1923) Vanity Fair (1932) Becky Sharp (1935) Vanity Fair (2004)

Television	Vanity Fair (1967) Vanity Fair (1987) Vanity Fair (1998)

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