Program Title
Vanity Fair

Based On
The novel by William Makepeace Thackeray

Adapted By
Rex Tucker

Number of Episodes:
5

Description
Becky Sharp left school penniless. Before taking up a position as governess, she stays with her friend Amelia Sedley. Having unsuccessfully tried to lure Jos Sedley--rich and home on leave from India--into marriage, Becky leaves to become governess to Sir Pitt Crawley. The lives of Becky and Amelia continue to intersect as each tries to find love and wealth in nineteenth century London.


Original broadcast date
1972-10-01

Cast	Characters
Fanny Rowe
Susan Hampshire	Becky Sharp
Roy Marsden	George Osborne
Richard Caldicot
Bryan Marshall
John Moffatt
Dyson Lovell	Rawdon Crawley
Marilyn Taylerson	Amelia Osborne
John Welsh	Sir Pitt Crawley
Thelma Barlow
Robert Flemyng	Lord Steyne
John Shrapnel	Sussex
Anthony Ainley	Henry Sidney
Angela Thorne	Lettice, Lady Leicester
Bernard Horsfall	Sir Christopher Hatton
Margaretta Scott	Cathering de Medici
James Laurenson	Simier
Michael Williams
David Collings
David Parfitt
John Woodvine
Micahel Culver
Peter Egan
John Nettleton
Nicholas Selby
Clifford Rose
Philip Voss

Credits

Producer: David Conroy, Roderick Graham
Director: David Giles, Claude Whatham





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