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Directed by | Chester M. Franklin |
Produced by | M. H. Hoffman |
Written by | F. Hugh Herbert Based on the novel by William Thackeray |
Starring | Myrna Loy |
Distributed by | Allied Pictures |
Release date(s) | March 15, 1932 |
Running time | 78 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Vanity Fair (1932) is a modernized adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name that was directed by Chester M. Franklin and starred Myrna Loy. The story is reset in the twentieth century.
This movie is sometimes said to be Myrna Loy's first ever starring role in a movie, but is not. Myrna Loy's first starring role in a movie was Turn Back the Hours (1928). Her second starring role was Hardboiled Rose (1929), and her third starring role was The Jazz Cinderella (1930), making this movie Loy's fourth starring role in a movie.