The definitive book of its kind, Vanity Fair's Hollywood is an incomparable collection of classic photographs, essays, and caricatures. This national best-seller depicts a century of Hollywood power, glamour, myth, and mystery--directly from the pages of Vanity Fair, from 1914 to today.
Here, then, is a century's worth of stars and moguls, parties and scandals, power and glamour, captured through the unrivaled lens and the inimitable prose of Vanity Fair.
The definitive book of its kind, Vanity Fair's Hollywood is an incomparable collection of classic photographs, essays, and caricatures. This national best-seller depicts a century of Hollywood power, glamour, myth, and mystery--directly from the pages of Vanity Fair, from 1914 to today.
On the motion-picture front, no other publication of our age has achieved the stature, vitality, or magic of Vanity Fair. In its coverage of the film industry, the magazine prides itself on assigning the world's top photographers, writers, and illustrators to explore the brightest stars in the Hollywood firmament. Now, for the first time, the most memorable renderings of this illustrious pantheon have been assembled in one volume: Garbo and Swanson, Fairbanks and Pickford,Gable and Grant, Tracy and Hepburn, Taylor and Burton--along with today's cinematic giants, including Nicholson and Streep, De Niro and DiCaprio, Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, and scores more.
As this sweeping, lavish book makes clear, Vanity Fair's stable of photographers (Cecil Beaton, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Edward Steichen,Mario Testino, Bruce Weber, and many others represented here) have helped define modern portraiture. "Getting your own photo shoot in Vanity Fair," said Maureen Dowd in The New York Times, "has become the premier achievement in our celebrity-mad culture." Likewise, Vanity Fair's Hollywood includes Vanity Fair contributors of the past (D. H. Lawrence, Clare Boothe Luce, Dorothy Parker,Carl Sandburg, Walter Winchell, and P. G. Wodehouse) and of the present.
Here, then, is a century's worth of stars and moguls, parties and scandals, power and glamour, captured through the unrivaled lens and the inimitable prose of Vanity Fair.
Foreword
by GRAYDOH CARTER
Without the Cane and the Derby
by CARL SAHDBURG
The Great Garbo
by CLARE BOOTHE BROKAW LUCE
Things I Never Knew Till Now
by WALTER WINCHELL
Sex Appeal
by D. H. LAWRENCE
The Phenomenal Growth of the Movies
by FRANK PEALE
San Simeon's Child
by MARTHA SHERRILL
Idol Gossips
by AMY FINE COLLINS
Starlight Starbright
by MARGARET CASE HARRIMAN
When Sue Was Queen
by PETER BISKIND
A School for Movie Villains
by P. G. WODEHOUSE
Is Your Little Girl Safe?
by DOROTHY PARKER
The Gangster and the Goddess
by PATRICIA BOSWORTH
When Liz Met Dick
by DAVID KAMP
It Happened on Sunset
by CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Afterword
by DOMINICK DUNNE