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Vanity Fair (1956 TV Series)
''Vanity Fair'' was a 1956–57 six-part BBC TV serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 novel of the same name. The cast included Joyce Redman, Petra Davies, Derek Blomfield, Alan Badel, David Peel, Graham Stuart, Marian Spencer, Jack May. Telerecorded during its live broadcast, only the first episode is known to survive, with the others being junked following a repeat of the telerecordings in 1957. Cast *Joyce Redman as Becky Sharp *Petra Davies as Amelia Sedley *Derek Blomfield as Captain Dobbin *Alan Badel as Rawdon Crawley *Graham Stuart as John Sedley *Marian Spencer as Mrs. John Sedley *Jack May as Joseph Sedley * David Peel as George Osborne *Barbara Leake as Miss Briggs *Lloyd Pearson as Sir Pitt Crawley *Graham Leaman as Gentleman at Stock Exchange *Henry Oscar as Osborne Senior *Marda Vanne as Miss Crawley *Michael Caridia as George Osborne * Dorothy Black as Miss Barbara Pinkerton * George Curzon as Lord Steyne *Christopher Steele as Mr. Moss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbell Logan
Campbell Logan (1910–1978) was a British television producer and director.Jane Austen on Screen p.261 He produced a large number of serials for the BBC, often based on classic works of literature. Selected filmography * ''BBC Sunday-Night Theatre'' (1950-1959) * ''The Warden'' (1951) * ''Ann Veronica'' (1952) * ''Jane Eyre'' (1956) * '' Vanity Fair'' (1956) * ''Precious Bane'' (1957) * '' The Royalty'' (1957-1958) * '' Charlesworth'' (1959) * '' The Naked Lady'' (1959) * ''Emma'' (1960) * ''Persuasion'' (1960) * ''The Men from Room 13'' (1961) * ''Dr. Finlay's Casebook'' (1962-1964) * ''Kidnapped'' (1963) * ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1964) * ''Martin Chuzzlewit'' (1964) * ''Smuggler's Bay'' (1964) * ''Rupert of Hentzau'' (1964) * ''Alexander Graham Bell'' (1965) * ''Poison Island'' (1965) * ''Heiress of Garth'' (1965) * ''Hereward the Wake'' (1965) * ''Silas Marner'' (1965) * ''A Tale of Two Cities'' (1965) * ''David Copperfield'' (1966) * ''The Queen's Traitor'' (1967) * ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Becky Sharp
Rebecca "Becky" Sharp, later describing herself as Rebecca, Lady Crawley, is the main protagonist of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1847–48 novel '' Vanity Fair''. She is presented as a cynical social climber who uses her charms to fascinate and seduce upper-class men. This is in contrast with the clinging, dependent Amelia Sedley, her friend from school. Becky then uses Amelia as a stepping stone to gain social position. Sharp functions as a ''picara''—a picaresque heroine—by being a social outsider who is able to expose the manners of the upper gentry to ridicule. The book—and Sharp's career—begins in a traditional manner of Victorian fiction, that of a young orphan (Sharp) with no source of income who has to make her own way in the world. Thackeray twisted the Victorian tradition, however, and quickly turned her into a young woman who knew what she wanted from life—fine clothes, money and a social position—and knew how to get them. The route was to be by marriage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950s British Drama Television Series
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English-language Television Shows
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Lost BBC Episodes
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1957 British Television Series Endings
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1956 British Television Series Debuts
Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Huaorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. * January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine. * January 25– 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala, after Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4. * January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February * February 11 – British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years. * February 14– 25 – The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held in Moscow. * February 16 – The 1956 World Figure Skating Championships open in Garmisch, West Germany. * February 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lockwood West
Harry Lockwood West (28 July 1905 – 28 March 1989) was a British actor. He was the father of actor Timothy West and the grandfather of actor Samuel West. Life and career West was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England in 1905, the son of Mildred (née Hartley) and Henry Cope West, and through his mother a fourth cousin of the actress Margaret Lockwood, their common ancestor being Joseph Lockwood (c.1758–1837), a former Mayor of Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire. West married the actress Olive Carleton-Crowe (died 1985) and with her had two children; a son, the actor Timothy West, and a daughter, Patricia. He made his stage debut in 1926 as Lieutenant Allen in ''Alf's Button'' at the Hippodrome Theatre in Margate, Kent. His London stage debut was as Henry Bevan in ''The Barretts of Wimpole Street'' at the Queen's Theatre in 1931. West's television appearances included ''Just William'' (1962), ''Dr. Finlay's Casebook'' (1964), ''No Hiding Place'' (1965), ''The Prisoner'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Curzon (actor)
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Dorothy Black (actress)
Dorothy Black (18 September 1899 – 19 February 1985) was a South African-British actress. Biography Black was born and raised in Johannesburg and attended St. Andrew's School for Girls. She went on to train at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She started her career appearing in ''Outward Bound'', ''The Farmer's Wife'', ''The Trojan Women'' and '' The Constant Nymph''. Her first performance in London was in the play ''Blue Comet'' at the Royal Court Theatre. Other West End plays included ''Dear Brutus'', ''Poison Pen'', ''Six Characters in Search of an Author'' and ''The Brontes''. Black appeared in many TV appearances since the early BBC broadcasts at Alexandra Palace. Selected filmography * ''The Farmer's Wife'' (1928) * '' Young Woodley'' (1928) * '' Her Reputation'' (1931) * ''Captivation'' (1931) * ''The Admiral's Secret'' (1933) * ''Imitation of Life (1934 film)'' (1934, uncredited) * ''The Night Has Eyes'' (1942) * ''Jane Eyre'' (1956 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Caridia
Michael Caridia (born 2 August 1941) is a British former child actor. His prominent roles include Sir Reginald, an obnoxious boy, in the Norman Wisdom vehicle ''Up in the World'' and Hugo Wendt in the 1956 horror-comedy ''The Gamma People''. In a 1960 dramatisation of the trial of Oscar Wilde he played Edward Shelley, an alleged rent boy Male prostitution is the act or practice of men providing sexual services in return for payment. It is a form of sex work. Although clients can be of any gender, the vast majority are older males looking to fulfill their sexual needs. Male pro ... who acted as a prosecution witness. He has not had any film or TV appearances since 1961. In 1970 he married Jennifer North in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. Filmography *''Pieces of Eight'', 1956 BBC TV children's film, aged 11. "The Reluctant Bride" 1955 Played 'Tony' as a child actor. References External links * 1941 births Living people English male film actors English male ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marda Vanne
Marda "Scrappy" Vanne (born Margaretha van Hulsteyn;One source, a close friend, spells her name "Margueretha". 27 September 1896 – 27 April 1970) was a South African actress who found fame in London. Early life Margaretha was born in Pretoria, South African Republic to Sir Willem and Lady van Hulsteyn. Willem was born in The Netherlands in 1865 and emigrated to South Africa at the age of fifteen. He became a leading lawyer in Johannesburg and later a member of the South African Parliament for many years. During the South African War, he became an advisor to Lord Milner, the Governor of the Cape Colony, and was knighted by King Edward VII in 1902. She was briefly married to politician Johannes Gerhardus "Hans" Strijdom, but the couple divorced within a year. Strijdom later went on to serve as Prime Minister of South Africa from 1954-58. In 1914, Vanne met Isaac Rosenberg in Cape Town, who was on a visit to South Africa. He took a shine to her and drew a charcoal sketch of her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
