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