Vanity Fair (1922 film)

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Vanity Fair
Directed by Walter Courtney Rowden
Written by William Makepeace Thackeray (novel)
Walter Courtney Rowden
Produced by H.B. Parkinson
Starring Clive Brook
Cosmo Kyrle Bellew
Douglas Munro
Production
company
Distributed by British Exhibitors' Films
Release date
  • 1922 (1922)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Vanity Fair is a 1922 British silent drama film directed by Walter Courtney Rowden and starring Clive Brook, Cosmo Kyrle Bellew and Douglas Munro. [1] 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.

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