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Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
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Directed by	Hugo Ballin
Written by	Hugo Ballin (scenario)
Based on	Vanity Fair; by William Makepeace Thackeray
Starring	Mabel Ballin; Hobart Bosworth; George Walsh
Cinematography	James Diamond
Production; company	Hugo Ballin Productions
Distributed by	Goldwyn Pictures
Release date	March 25, 1923;
Running time	80+ minutes; 8 reels (7,668 ft)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

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Vanity Fair (1923) is a lost silent feature film directed by Hugo Ballin and released by Samuel Goldwyn.^[1]

Production background

The film included one sequence filmed in color by Prizmacolor. This silent film was a version of the 1848 novel Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. The film starred Ballin's wife Mabel Ballin as Becky Sharp and Hobart Bosworth as the Marquis of Steyne.

Cast

Mabel Ballin as Becky Sharp
Hobart Bosworth as Marquis of Steyne
George Walsh as Rawdon Crawley
Harrison Ford as George Osborne
Earle Foxe as Captain Dobbin
Willard Louis as Joseph Sedley
Eleanor Boardman as Amelia Sedley
Bobby Mack as Sir Pitt Crawley (as Robert Mack)
William J. Humphrey as Mr Sedley (credited as William Humphreys)
Dorcas Matthews as Lady Jane
Laura La Varnie as Miss Crawley
James A. Marcus as Old Osborne
Eugene Acker as Max
Leo White as Isadore
Tempe Pigott as Mrs Sedley

Preservation status

Vanity Fair is now considered to be a lost film.^[2]^[3]

References

External links

Vanity Fair at IMDb
Vanity Fair at Virtual History

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[1] The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: Vanity Fair

[2] Progressive Silent Film List: Vanity Fair at silentera.com

[3] The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Vanity Fair

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+''''' Vanity Fair''''' (1923) is a [[lost film|lost]] [[silent film|silent]] [[feature film]] directed by [[Hugo Ballin]] and released by [[Samuel Goldwyn]].<ref>[https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/13004?sid=13b0c146-aeda-432f-95fc-8f779bfc475a&sr=4.2359424&cp=1&pos=3  The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: ''Vanity Fair'']</ref>
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 *[[List of lost films]]
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 *{{IMDb title|0014572|Vanity Fair}}
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v t e William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair
Characters	Becky Sharp
Film	1911 1915 1922 1923 1932 Becky Sharp (1935) 2004
Television	1956–57 1967 1987 1998 2018
Stage	1946 play