Headline
Vanity Fair': Mabel Ballin Defends Becky Sharp - Should Have Been a Business Woman
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Publication Date
1925-05-07
- Publication Year
1925
Page
6
Key Person
Film Projector / Film(s)
Vanity Fair
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Actors
Mabel Ballin
Director
Hugo Ballin
Writer
Hugo Ballin
Country
USA
Released
1923-03-25
Runtime
80 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
Adventuress Becky Sharp lives by her wits and charm in an effort to ascend from humble backgrounds into society. She fails to lure Joseph Sedley, the brother of her chum Amelia, into ...
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It is hardly necessary to remind anyone that the Becky referred to is the principal character in Thackeray's great novel of 'Vanity Fair,' which comes to the World Theatre on Saturday for five days. Mabel Ballin plays Becky. Hugo Ballin directed the film for Goldwyn. 'Becky was a businesswoman. She wanted a business career and she couldn't have it. There's your repressed desire,' declared Mabel. 'Anyway, that's the way I figure Becky,' concluded Mabel, 'and that's the way I've tried to make her register on the screen.'
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