William Thackerays plucky adventuress Becky Sharp claws her way up through society in this lavish 16part BBC period production. Eve Matheson and Rebecca Saire lead the cast in this 16part adaptation of William Makepeace Thackerays classic filmed entirely at the Pebble Mill Studios. Set in the Napoleonic Wars Vanity Fair is a rich and resplendent satire of English society in which according to Thackeray there is great quantity of eating and drinking making love and jilting laughing and the co.
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All 16 episodes of the 1987 BBC adaptation of the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In a society surviving on the wealth generated by an expanding empire, Rebecca Sharp (Eve Matheson) is the ambitious daughter of a poor family who will let nothing stand in her way in her attempt to climb the social ladder. Taking a position as a nanny, Rebecca claws her way into a wealthy family's favours and into London society. The episodes are: 'Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Open the Campaign', 'Vauxhall Gardens', 'Crawley of Queen's Crawley', 'Arcadian Simplicity', 'Who Played On the Piano?', 'A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon', 'Amelia Invades the Low Countries', 'The Girl I Left Behind Me', 'Widow and Mother', 'How to Live Well On Nothing a Year', 'Struggles and Trials', 'The Very Best of Company', 'A Vulgar Incident', 'After the Battle', 'Our Friend the Major' and 'Old Acquaintance'.
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. Eve Matheson and Rebecca Saire lead the cast in this 16-part adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray s classic, filmed entirely at the Pebble Mill Studios. Set in the Napoleonic Wars, Vanity Fair is a rich and resplendent satire of English society in which according to Thackeray, there is great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling. Becky (Eve Matheson), the penniless, orphaned daughter of an artist and a French opera dancer, and Amelia Sedley (Rebecca Saire), the sheltered child of a rich City Merchant are unlikely, but firm friends. From the drawing rooms of Regency London to the fields of Waterloo, Vanity Fair tells their story. Becky, an irrepressible schemer one of the most seductive social climbers of all time who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. While her friend, the meek and mild Amelia, pursues the opposite course. In the end both girls get what they want but not quite in the way they planned.
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