Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), A Place in the Sun (1951), Show People (1928), Dinner at Eight (1933), The Patsy (1928), The Great Gatsby (2013), The Loved One (1965), What a Way to Go! (1964) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Vanity Fair movies.
Storyline: New York City. Forty year old Lee Simon, a critically panned two time novelist who works as a travel writer (a job he hates) to earn a steady living, tells his shocked wife of sixteen years, English teacher Robin Simon, that he wants a divorce. Although he had not been happy with Robin for some time, she who he feels is a bundle of Catholic repressions and neuroses especially when it comes to sex, Lee finally came to the conclusion about wanting a divorce upon attending his high school reunion and seeing a roomful of losers, he believing he turning into one of them if he didn't make a drastic change. He gets a job working as a journalist for an entertainment magazine, while he writes screenplays on the side, he believing the latter a good stepping stone to finishing his third novel if the screenplays works out. The journalist job includes conducting interviews with celebrities, not only to who he can pedal his completed screenplay, but also what he quickly learns to who he has easy ...
Plot Keywords: dark comedy, satire, celebrity culture, media critique, new york, vanity fair, moral decay ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: American heiress Pearl Saunders marries Lord George Grayston but later sees him embracing his lover on their wedding day. She has his title and he has her money; thereafter they are rarely seen together. Pearl is accepted by the British aristocracy and is presented at court, but creates a scandal by wearing black. She encourages her younger sister, Bessie, who idolizes her, to respond to the attentions of Lord Harry Bleane despite Bessie preferring American Fleming Harvey. Pearl gives a weekend party at the Grayston estate inviting close friends, including her lover, Arthur Fenwick; her friend, Duchess Minnie and Minnie's gigolo companion, Pepi D'Costa; as well as Bessie, Lord Bleane and Harvey. Pepi, who had been meeting Pearl on the sly, discretely suggests a rendezvous with her in the new teahouse on the property. Both make some pretext to leave but are seen by Minnie entering the teahouse. Vindictive Minnie pretends to have left her purse in the teahouse and sends Bessie to fetch it. Bessie finds the door locked but peeks through the window and is shocked by what she sees. Minnie, Fenwick, and Bessie are outraged at the lovers' ill-advised meeting, but Pearl sets out to assuage their anger.—Arthur Hausner <genart@volcano.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, satire, high society, marriage, class divide ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Psychiatrist and his life with a patient he helped to recover.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, marriage, psychological, adaptation, novel adaptation, american ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Maria (Marlene Dietrich) meets Count Dino (Vittorio De Sica) gambling in Monaco, her losing night takes a positive turn. The two immediately take up with one another, but the affair is short-lived once Maria learns that the count is a compulsive gambler like her. Feeling the need for more financial security, Maria hooks up with a wealthy American and announces her plans to marry. But try as she might, Maria cannot shake her fond memories of the count.—Canon y mus
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, adventure, gambling, europe, wealthy, romantic comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the midst of a nasty public breakup of married movie stars, a studio publicist scrambles to put a cap on the escalating situation as the couple's latest film has found its only print kidnapped by the director.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, hollywood, celebrity, media, divorce, scandal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A week in the life of Ben, a powerful Hollywood producer, as he juggles negotiations with a studio head so that his newest picture can open at Cannes in two weeks, with a high-strung director who must make edits to the film, with an actor and his agent because the star has arrived on the set of a new picture with a full beard, and with his most recent ex-wife, Kelly, whom he discovers may have a lover. He also notices that his 17-year old daughter, from another marriage, has probably been crying. What's up? Can Ben keep it all together, get the green light from the studio to go to Cannes, move his new picture past the beard crisis, and maybe return to Kelly's good graces?
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, hollywood, film industry, satire, black comedy, producer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan) builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie (Imogen Poots).
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, romance, british, based on true story, erotic, comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Georges Duroy is a penniless soldier returning from war. He travels to Paris in a search for ways to improve his social and financial status. He uses his wit and powers of seduction to charm wealthy women.
Plot Keywords: drama, historical, romance, erotic, literary adaptation, french, 19th century ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: New York City's Waldorf-Astoria hotel is bustling with guests and crisscrossing story lines. Movie star Irene Malvern (Ginger Rogers) is fighting depression while awaiting the debut of her latest film. James Hollis (Van Johnson) is a wounded vet awaiting a surgery that will decide whether he lives or dies. Martin X. Edley (Edward Arnold) is a con artist hatching a scheme; Bunny Smith (Lana Turner) is the gorgeous stenographer intent on sharing his riches. It'll all be resolved at checkout time.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, musical, song and dance, love, hotel ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A fashion show in Paris draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Lots of unconnected stories which all revolve around this show, and an all-star cast.
Plot Keywords: fashion, comedy, satire, paris, media, vanity fair, competition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Studio head Joe Mulholland (Walter Matthau) promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz (Vincent Gardenia), to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better judgment. Unable to figure out how to turn the nonfiction book into a narrative movie, Mulholland enlists the services of Herb Dorman (Charles Grodin), a screenwriter of popular romantic films with a bad marriage, and volatile director Sid Spokane (Bill Macy) to help him create a movie.
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, hollywood, film industry, absurd, humor, business ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another. American television personality Kitty (Kim Basinger) unsuccessfully vies to keep up with the high-fashion types. Journalists Anne (Julia Roberts) and Joe (Tim Robbins) skip out on most of the festivities in favor of a hotel room tryst. And fading icons Sergei (Marcello Mastroianni) and Isabella (Sophia Loren) hope to rekindle a romance from decades ago.
Plot Keywords: fashion, comedy, paris, fashion industry, satire, multiple storylines, ensemble cast ...
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