John Franklyn-Robbins

Vanity Fair 2004

The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father's paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible.

Category: Drama

Stars: Gabriel Byrne,Angelica Mandy,Roger Lloyd-Pack,Ruth Sheen,Kate Fleetwood,Reese Witherspoon,Lillete Dubey,Romola Garai,Tony Maudsley,Deborah Findlay,John Franklyn-Robbins,Paul Bazely,Rhys Ifans,Jonathan Rhys Meyers,Charlie Beall

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