Vanity Fair (DVD)

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Starring: Natasha Little, Frances Gray, Tom Ward, Nathanial Parker, Jeremy Swift. Directed by: Marc Munden In an England on the brink of bankruptcy & war, only the wily may prosper. Becky Sharp is a governess, temptress & social climber supreme, a woman who more than compensates in brains & beauty for what she conspicuously lacks in breeding. To what lengths will she go in order to secure herself a rich & high-born husband? & how many male hearts will be left broken along the way? We follow Beckys journey from the elegant salons of Georgian London to the battlefields of Waterloo, from her ill-fated attempts to woo the buffoonish Jos Sedley, to her equally doomed marriage to the aristocratic cad Rawdon Crawley. The unsinkable Beckys progress is mirrored by that of her fragile best friend Amelia, who is besotted with the raffish George Osborne, but secretly admired by Osbornes staunch ally William Dobbin. Can both women survive the foibles of love & the catastrophic events unfolding in England & abroad? Originally transmitted in 1998