The Golden Age: The V.F. Archive Collection

Inside the studio system, behind the scenes of classic films, and out and about with such stars as Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, and Frank Sinatra.

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The Devil in Miss Davis | Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair - By William Frye
An evening with Bette Davis could be full of laughter; it could as easily turn into a nightmare. From Davis’s edgy relationship with Hollywood society to the night she came at him with a kitchen knife, a veteran producer recalls his seven-year friendship with the tempestuous legend. I always thought …
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Sidney Poitier, 1967, and One of the Most Remarkable Runs in Hollywood History
Vanity Fair - By Laura Jacobs
Five decades ago, at the height of the civil-rights movement, America’s most beloved movie actor was a black man whose three films that year—To Sir, with Love; In the Heat of the Night; and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner—made him king of the Hollywood box office. How the actor’s coolly uncompromising …
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It Happened One Night . . . at MGM
Vanity Fair - By David Stenn
When Patricia Douglas was raped by an MGM salesman at a 1937 studio party, the 20-year-old dancer filed charges, taking on Hollywood's most powerful institution. Today, as Douglas breaks a 65-year silence, the author exposes the perjury, bribes, and smear tactics used to destroy her. What,” asked …
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Inventing Ford Country
Vanity Fair - By Buzz Bissinger
The 1939 movie Stagecoach created three icons: John Wayne, John Ford, and the 30,000 acres of glory on the Utah-Arizona border known as Monument Valley. It was a pioneering rancher, Harry Goulding, who brought Hollywood to his home, and helped shape America’s vision of the West. Astride his horse on …
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Dangerous Talents | Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair - By Sam Kashner
When James Dean’s Porsche Spyder crashed 50 years ago, killing the actor just before the premiere of Rebel Without a Cause, his legend was sealed. But the director who gave Dean that immortal role, Nicholas Ray, has been virtually forgotten. Examining Ray’s genius, his loves (including Natalie Wood …
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Frank Sinatra’s “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”: The Full Story | Vanity Fair
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Sinatra: The Chairman, volume two of James Kaplan’s definitive biography, charts the singer’s career resurgence and the creation of his most enduring hit songs. “He’s a dead man,” the talent agent Irving “Swifty” Lazar declared of Frank Sinatra in 1952. “Even Jesus couldn’t get resurrected in this …

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