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Vanity Fair (2004)

Filming Locations

Chiswick House
Exteriors
Holburne Museum of Art
Lord Steyne's residence
Theatre Royal
Exteriors
Wrotham Park
Gaunt House interiors

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Plot Summary

The story opens at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies, where the principal protagonists Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley have just completed their studies and are preparing to depart for Amelia's house in Russell Square. Becky is portrayed as a strong-willed and cunning young woman determined to make her way in society, and Amelia Sedley is a good natured, loveable though simple-minded young girl.

At Russell Square, Miss Sharp is introduced to the dashing and self-obsessed Captain George Osborne (to whom Amelia has been betrothed from a very young age) and to Amelia's brother Joseph Sedley, a clumsy and vainglorious but rich civil-servant fresh from India. Becky entices him and hopes to marry him, though eventually fails as a result of warnings from Captain Osborne and his own native shyness and embarrassment that Becky had witnessed his foolish behaviour at Vauxhall.

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Snapshot

Author
William Makepeace Thackeray
Book published
1848-07-01
Publisher
Punch Magazine
Screenplay writer
Matthew Faulk, Mark Skeet and Julian Fellowes
Director
Mira Nair

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Characters and Actors

Becky Sharp
Reese Witherspoon
George Osbourne
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Amelia Sedley
Romola Garai
William Dobbin
Rhys Ifans

More cast details for Vanity Fair at IMDB.com

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