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==Adaptations== [[File:Vanity Fair lobby card 1923.JPG|thumb|right|200px|The [[lobby card]] for the [[Vanity Fair (1923 film)|1923 ''Vanity Fair'']], a [[lost film]] whose Becky Sharp was the [[Hugo Ballin|director]]'s [[Mabel Ballin|wife]]]] [[File:Vanityfair1932.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Myrna Loy]] as an early 20th-century Becky Sharp in the [[Vanity Fair (1932 film)|1932 ''Vanity Fair'']]]] [[File:Vanity Fair 2004 poster.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Reese Witherspoon]] as the sympathetic Becky Sharp of the 2004 ''Vanity Fair'']] The book has inspired a number of adaptations: ===Radio=== *''Vanity Fair'' (7 January 1940), the [[CBS Radio]] series ''[[The Campbell Playhouse (radio series)|Campbell Playhouse]]'', hosted by [[Orson Welles]], broadcast a one-hour adaptation featuring [[Helen Hayes]] and [[Agnes Moorehead]]. *''Vanity Fair'' (6 December 1947), the [[NBC Radio]] series ''[[Favorite Story]]'', hosted by [[Ronald Colman]], broadcast a half-hour adaptation with [[Joan Lorring]] as "Becky Sharp"<ref>{{cite news|title=Vanity Fair|work=Favorite Story|date=6 December 1947|publisher=Old Time Radio Downloads}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Vanity Fair|work=Favorite Story|publisher=Old Time Radio |date=6 December 1947|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PD78Usb9R4| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130204134/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PD78Usb9R4| archive-date=2021-11-30 | url-status=dead}}</ref> *''Vanity Fair'' (2004), [[BBC Radio 4]] broadcast an adaptation of the novel by [[Stephen Wyatt]], starring [[Emma Fielding]] as Becky, [[Stephen Fry]] as the Narrator, [[Katy Cavanagh]] as Amelia, [[David Calder (actor)|David Calder]], [[Philip Fox (actor)|Philip Fox]], [[Jon Glover]], [[Geoffrey Whitehead]] as Mr. Osborne, Ian Masters as Mr. Sedley, Alice Hart as Maria Osborne, and [[Margaret Tyzack]] as Miss Crawley; this was subsequently re-broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4 Extra]] in 20 fifteen-minute episodes.<ref>{{cite news |title=Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jvwb |access-date=9 May 2022 |agency=BBC}}</ref> *''Vanity Fair'' (2019), [[BBC Radio 4]] broadcast a three-part adaptation of the novel by Jim Poyser with additional material by [[Al Murray]] (Thackeray's actual descendant, who also stars as Thackeray),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005dyt|title = BBC Radio 4 - Vanity Fair}}</ref> with Ellie White as Becky Sharp, Helen O'Hara as Amelia Sedley, [[Blake Ritson]] as Rawdon Crawley, [[Rupert Hill]] as George Osborne and [[Graeme Hawley]] as Dobbin. ===Silent films=== *''Vanity Fair'' (1911), directed by [[Charles Kent (actor)|Charles Kent]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Vanity Fair|date=1911|publisher=Films 101|url=http://www.films101.com/17095.htm}}</ref> *[[Vanity Fair (1915 film)|''Vanity Fair'']] (1915), directed by Charles Brabin *''[[Vanity Fair (1922 film)|Vanity Fair]]'' (1922), directed by W. Courtney Rowden *''[[Vanity Fair (1923 film)|Vanity Fair]]'' (1923), directed by [[Hugo Ballin]] ===Sound films=== *''[[Vanity Fair (1932 film)|Vanity Fair]]'' (1932), directed by Chester M. Franklin and starring [[Myrna Loy]], updating the story to make Becky Sharp a social-climbing governess *''[[Becky Sharp (film)|Becky Sharp]]'' (1935), starring [[Miriam Hopkins]] and [[Frances Dee]], the first feature film shot in full-spectrum Technicolor *''[[Vanity Fair (2004 film)|Vanity Fair]]'' (2004), directed by [[Mira Nair]] and starring [[Reese Witherspoon]] as Becky Sharp and [[Natasha Little]], who had played Becky Sharp in the earlier television miniseries of ''Vanity Fair'', as Lady Jane Sheepshanks ===Television=== *''[[Vanity Fair (1956 TV series)|Vanity Fair]]'' (1956-7), a [[BBC]] serial adapted by [[Constance Cox]] starring [[Joyce Redman]] *''[[Vanity Fair (1967 TV serial)|Vanity Fair]]'' (1967), a [[BBC]] miniseries adapted by [[Rex Tucker]] starring [[Susan Hampshire]] as [[Becky Sharp (character)|Becky Sharp]], for which she received an [[Emmy Award]] in 1973. This version was also broadcast in 1972 in the US on [[PBS]] television as part of ''[[Masterpiece Theatre]]''. *''Yarmarka tshcheslaviya'' (1976), a two-episode TV miniseries directed by [[Igor Ilyinsky]] and Mariette Myatt, staged by the Moscow State Academic Maly Theater of the USSR) {{in lang|ru}}<ref>{{IMDb title|3256204|Yarmarka tshcheslaviya}}</ref> *''[[Vanity Fair (1987 TV serial)|Vanity Fair]]'' (1987), a [[BBC]] miniseries starring [[Eve Matheson]] as [[Becky Sharp (film)|Becky Sharp]], [[Rebecca Saire]] as Amelia Sedley, [[James Saxon (actor)|James Saxon]] as Jos Sedley and [[Simon Dormandy]] as Dobbin.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e477032381a5438bb798bb17383537fd|title=Vanity Fair|date=20 September 1987|issue=3330|pages=39|via=BBC Genome}}</ref> *''[[Vanity Fair (1998 TV serial)|Vanity Fair]]'' (1998), a [[BBC]] miniseries starring [[Natasha Little]] as [[Becky Sharp (film)|Becky Sharp]] *''[[Vanity Fair (2018 TV series)|Vanity Fair]]'' (2018), a seven-part [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] and [[Amazon Studios]] adaptation, starring [[Olivia Cooke]] as Becky Sharp, [[Tom Bateman (actor)|Tom Bateman]] as Captain Rawdon Crawley, and [[Michael Palin]] as Thackeray.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Tartaglione|first1=Nancy|title='Vanity Fair': Suranne Jones, Michael Palin Join Olivia Cooke In ITV/Amazon Drama|url=https://deadline.com/2017/09/vanity-fair-suranne-jones-michael-palin-olivia-cooke-itv-amazon-drama-first-photo-1202176149/|access-date=13 March 2018|work=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=25 September 2017}}</ref> ===Theatre=== * ''Becky Sharp'' (1899), play written by [[Langdon Mitchell]] * ''Becky Sharp'' (1924) play written by "Olive Conway"<ref>{{Cite book |last=Conway (pseud.) |first=Olive |url=https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Olive_Conway_pseud_Becky_Sharp?id=OMiAtG8_KJUC |title=Becky Sharp: A Play in One Act, Adapted from the Waterloo Chapter of "Vanity Fair," |date=1924 |publisher=LeRoy Phillips |language=en}}</ref> * ''[[Vanity Fair (play)|Vanity Fair]]'' (1946), play written by [[Constance Cox]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/discovery/fulldisplay/alma996008753607636/61SLV_INST:SLV |url=https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/discovery/fulldisplay/alma996008753607636/61SLV_INST:SLV |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=find.slv.vic.gov.au |language=en}}</ref> * ''Vanity Fair'' (2017), play written by [[Kate Hamill]] * ''Vanity'' (2023), musical written and composed by [[Bernard J. Taylor]] ===Fiction=== * ''Becky'' (2023), novel written by [[Sarah May]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/sarah-may/becky/9781529066913 | title=Becky by Sarah May }}</ref>
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