75 Years of Hollywood Parties: Oscar Night: Vanity Fair

BOOK TITLE:  75 Years of Hollywood Parties:  Oscar Night: from the Editors of Vanity Fair

PUBLISHER:  Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2004 1st Edition

This 384 page hardcover book weighs 3.4kg, is 27.5cm x 30cm x 3.5cm in size and is a hard-to-find limited edition.  "From the first Academy Awards black-tie dinner dance in 1929 to the glittering Vanity Fair gala in 2004, from the 1940s gatherings at the most fashionable nightspots in Los Angeles - Ciro's, Mocambo, Romanoff's, Chasen's - to the star-studded parties thrown by legendary agent Swifty Lazar from the 1960s to the 1990s, here is a photo history of all those events, presented by Grandon Carter and David Friend.  More than five hundred archival and personal black-and-white and color photographs - many never seen before - have been collected on Oscar Night.  There is an afterword by Dominick Dunne and a look at every detail, from menus to matchbooks to seating charts.

You'll see intimate and unposed photographs of such classic icons as Cary Grant, Elizabeth Tayylor, John Wayne, Gloria Swanson, David O Selznick, and Alfred Hitchcock, among many others, at the formal dinners of the 1930s through the 1950s.  Here also are amazing photographs of another generation of icons at the exclusive Governors Balls:  Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, and John Belushi, Dennis Hopper with Michelle Phillips, and a very young Ali MacGraw dancing with Robert Evans.  And here is a mix of New York and Hollywood at Swifty's parties, with pictures of Bianca Jagger, Sam Sheppard, Michael Caine, David Geffen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the Ahmet Erteguns.  Here too, is the Hollywood that gathers today at the Vanity Fair Oscar party: Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger, Oprah Winfrey, Nicole Kidman, Scarlett Johansson, Charlize Theron, Sofia Coppola, Sigourney Weaver, Fran Lebowitz, Sean Combs, and Renee Zellweger.

Irresistibly sumptuous - and juicy - Oscar Night is a book full of elegance and egos, of glamorous pictures that you will want to look at again and again. 

The afterword by the late Dominick Dunne reads as follows:-

"Oscar night is the party night in Hollywood - New Year's Eve and the Fourth of July rolled into one.  I attended my first Oscar party, at Romanoff's in 1955.  Grace Kelly looked ravishing that night and walked through the throng of actors, directors, and producers, kissing friends.  Soon, she would be leaving it all behind to marry Prince Rainier and become Princess Grace of Monaco...The most fascinating couple at Swifty's party in 1991 was the young Madonna, in a white, rhinestone-encrusted gown with white fox and diamonds, and the young Michael Jackson, in one of his military-type costumes.  Great stars, including James Stewart, stood on chairs to get a better look at them...Today the Vanity Fair party is the one to be seen at.  It's also the hardest to get into, which makes it all the more desirable.  Such glamour, such swank, such high fashion, and above all, such star power."

In 2004 the book originally sold for $75.00 US and $100 Canadian.

The book has a slipcase dustjacket which has some very minor edgewear.  The interior pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. 

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