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...working girl who marries, loves, regenerates and finally receives the belated adoration of an alcoholic socialite whom she meets just after he has been jilted, this picture partially succeeds in disguising the banality of its narrative by the freshness of its point of view. The competition that develops between Miriam Brady (Bette Davis) and the hero's onetime sweetheart (Katherine Alexander), now married to another man, for the affections of Geoffrey Sherwood (Ian Hunter) is presented honestly and with touches of saving humor. Miriam's final triumph is due, not to her ability to behave like a lady...
...addition to an eminently shrewd performance by Bette Davis, the picture contains pleasant ones by Ian Hunter and Alison Skipworth, as a onetime Floradora girl, who makes Miriam her prot...
...feature subject. The vogue for clean pictures, the necessity for glamorous costumes and the current popularity of Victorian classics made a dramatic version of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair appear to be ideal. For a director the Whitneys chose Lowell Sherman. For a star they chose Miriam Hopkins. Becky Sharp went into production almost a year ago. By last week, it had survived a series of unprecedented mishaps...
First calamity was the death of Director Lowell Sherman from pneumonia, when he had shot about one-third of the picture. Second was an attack of pneumonia for Miriam Hopkins, in the middle of a ballroom scene erected on a rented Pathe lot. Director Rouben Mamoulian, hired to replace Sherman, scrapped all the scenes made by his predecessor. A sequence carefully pieced together from 6,000 ft. of negative was burned in a projection machine and had to be recut, which took a week. During these tribulations, Jock Whitney flew to the coast nine times. Final difficulties with Becky Sharp...
...turned down flat. But, usually reticent about names of her patrons, Mrs. Walrath is proud to admit that from The Cradle to Hollywood have gone Gracie Allen's Sandra Jean, Joe E. Brown's youngest child, Mary Elizabeth, Pat O'Brien's year-old Mavoureen, Miriam Hopkins' curly-mopped Michael...