Vanity Fair Girls

A clean print of the Остаться в живых film noir classic Killers Kill, Dead Men Die was miraculously discovered at a Mulholland Drive lawn sale last month, resolving a mystery that has transfixed noir Фаны for decades. Little was known about the film for certain, though it has been the subject of wild rumors ever since the screenplay was written, probably in 1942, by Raymond Chandler (based on “The Big Blood,” a story by James M. Cain, and later revised, as No Orchids for Oscar, by Dashiell Hammett and William Faulkner). It is believed that Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum were originally cast in...

Capturing Hollywood glamour and activist passion, Annie Leibovitz turned V.F.'s cover quartet into an eco-power pinup.

photographs by Annie Leibovitz
May 2006

If Julia Roberts can do it, so can you. An admitted latecomer to environmental concerns, Roberts is proof that it's never too late to start caring for the earth and that it can all start at home. From the Prius she drives and the solar-powered house she's building in California to the metal cup she uses when she goes out for coffee, the grocery bags she religiously returns to the store for a nickel, and the twins' environmentally friendly...

Leslie Bennetts on Broadway’s latest showstoppers.

By Leslie Bennetts•Photograph by Ruven Afanador
March 2011

Most ingénues don’t have to fly, let alone be dangled from terrifying heights by nasty villains—but then, most Broadway shows are much simpler than director Julie Taymor’s oft delayed Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, whose opening, following cast injuries and myriad technical difficulties, has been postponed until this month. As Spidey’s beloved Mary Jane, Jennifer Damiano, 19, must hang from buildings and hurtle through the air—feats that aren’t required of the budding...