Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair is a BBC television drama serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name broadcast in 1967. It starred Susan Hampshire as Becky Sharp, for which she received an Emmy Award in 1973. The serial was also broadcast in 1972 in the US on PBS television as part of Masterpiece Theatre. The BBC would later produce another adaptation in 1998. For a full length summary of the book, see: Vanity Fair plot summary. This a... more

Vanity Fair is a BBC television drama serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name broadcast in 1967. It starred Susan Hampshire as Becky Sharp, for which she received an Emmy Award in 1973. The serial was also broadcast in 1972 in the US on PBS television as part of Masterpiece Theatre. The BBC would later produce another adaptation in 1998. For a full length summary of the book, see: Vanity Fair plot summary. This adaptation is now available on DVD, distributed by Acorn Media UK. less