"Vanity Fair's" Hollywood

by Christopher Hitchens (Author), David Friend (Editor), Graydon Carter (Editor)

Synopsis

The definitive book of its kind, Vanity Fair's Hollywood is an incomparable collection of classic photographs, essays and caricatures depicting a century of Hollywood power, glamour, myth and mystery - directly from the pages of Vanity Fair, from 1914 to today. The brightest stars in Hollywood's firmament have been assembled in one volume: Garbo and Swanson, Gable and Grant, Tracy and Hepburn, Fairbanks and Pickford, Taylor and Burton - along with today's cinematic giants: Cruise and Kidman, Nicholson and Streep, De Niro and DiCaprio, Hanks and Roberts, and scores more. Vanity Fair's photographers - among them Cecil Beaton, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Edward Steichen and Bruce Weber - have helped to define modern portraiture. Likewise, Vanity Fair's stable of Hollywood writers in this volume includes luminaries of the past (P.G. Wodehouse, Dorothy Parker and D.H. Lawrence) and of the present (Christopher Hitchens, Dominick Dunne, Amy Fine). Here, then, is a century's worth of stars and moguls, parties and scandals, power and glamour, through the unrivalled lens and the inimitable prose of Vanity Fair.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Published: 29 Oct 2001

ISBN 10: 0500283249
ISBN 13: 9780500283240

Media Reviews
'The film book of the year' - The Evening Standard 'Ravishingly addictive' - The Spectator 'A definitive portrait of 20th-century celebrity' - GQ
Author Bio
Graydon Carter has been editor of Vanity Fair since 1992. David Friend is Vanity Fair's editor of creative development. Christopher Hitchens is an extremely well-known journalist; he joined Vanity Fair as a contributing editor in September 1992.