| Vanity Fair | |
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| Based on | Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Screenplay by | Rex Tucker |
| Directed by | David Giles |
| Starring | Susan Hampshire |
| Music by | Douglas Gamley (unknown episodes) |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Producer | David Conroy |
| Running time | 5x1 hour |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC |
| Release | 2 December – 30 December 1967 |
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Vanity Fair is a BBC television drama serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 novel of the same name broadcast in 1967.[1] It was the first drama serial in colour produced by the BBC.[2] Vanity Fair starred Susan Hampshire as Becky Sharp.[3] The serial was also broadcast in 1972 in the US on PBS television as part of Masterpiece Theatre, and Hampshire received an Emmy Award for her portrayal in 1973.[4]
This was the second of four television adaptations of Vanity Fair produced by the BBC; other serials had been transmitted in 1956/57, in 1987, and in 1998.[5]
- ^ "Vanity Fair: Part 1: The Famous Little Becky Puppet". 2 December 1967. p. 9 – via BBC Genome.
- ^ "BFI Screenonline: TV Literary Adaptation". www.screenonline.org.uk.
- ^ "Vanity Fair Part 4 The Wicked Nobleman (1967)". BFI. Archived from the original on 24 October 2020.
- ^ "Susan Hampshire". Television Academy.
- ^ "William Makepeace Thackeray". BFI. Archived from the original on 9 August 2016.