Vanity Fair (1915 film)

Vanity Fair
Directed by Eugene Nowland
Charles Brabin
Produced by Edison Company
George Kleine
Written by Charles Sumner Williams
Eugene Nowland
Based on Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
Starring Mrs. Fiske
Cinematography Otto Brautigan
Distributed by Kleine-Edison Feature Service
Release date
 October 6, 1915
Running time
 7 reels
Country USA
Language silent..English titles

Vanity Fair is a 1915 silent film drama directed by Eugene Nowland and Charles Brabin and starring Mrs. Fiske, a renowned Broadway stage actress. The Edison Company produced and released the film. Mrs. Fiske had starred in the 1899 hit Broadway play Becky Sharp based on William Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Here she recreates the role for Edison's cameras. This film marks Mrs. Fiske's second feature film as she had starred in Tess of the d'Urbervilles for Adolph Zukor in 1913. Despite the popularity of Vanity Fair, Mrs. Fiske never made another motion picture.[1][2]

An earlier version was made in 1911 with Helen Gardner. A British feature appeared in 1922 and in 1923 Goldwyn Pictures made Vanity Fair.

The film is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.[3]

Cast

  • Mrs. Fiske - Becky Sharp
  • Shirley Mason - Becky as a child (*as Leonie Flugrath)
  • Yale Benner - Rakedell Sharp
  • Helen Fulton - Amelia Sedley
  • William Wadsworth - Joseph Sedley
  • Richard Tucker - George Osborne
  • Robert Brower - Mr. Osborne
  • Frank McGlynn, Sr. - Captain William Dobbin
  • Bigelow Cooper - Rawdon Crawley
  • George A. Wright - Lord Steyne
  • Maurice Steuart - George Sedley Osborne (as Maurice Stewart, Jr.)
  • Helen Strickland - Lady Steyne
  • Philip Quinn - Napoleon
  • John Sturgeon - Major O'Dowd
  • Arthur Row - Pitt Crawley

References

  1. ↑ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Vanity Fair
  2. ↑ Vanity Fair at silentera.com
  3. ↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Vanity Fair


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.