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1922 film by Walter Courtney Rowden
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Vanity Fair is a 1922 British silent drama film directed by Walter Courtney Rowden and starring Clive Brook, Cosmo Kyrle Bellew and Douglas Munro. An adaptation of the 1848 novel Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, it was made as part of the "Tense Moments with Great Authors Series" of films.
“Profoundly grateful, and as if I had swallowed a small baby. … Why, they are perfect beasts of oysters!”
“He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.”
“As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.”
“The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?”
“Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.”
“Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room: and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will no more be seen.”
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Vanity Fair is a 1922 British silent drama film directed by Walter Courtney Rowden and starring Clive Brook, Cosmo Kyrle Bellew and Douglas Munro. An adaptation of the 1848 novel Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, it was made as part of the "Tense Moments with Great Authors Series" of films.
Clive Brook - Rawdon Crawley
Douglas Munro - Marquis of Staines
Henry Doughty - Mr. Wenham
Kyrle Bellew - Becky Sharp
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