George Clooney, Celebration, Stacy Keibler, The Descendants and Vanity Fair Sunday 11th September 2011 George Clooney and Stacy Keibler after attending the Fox Searchlight Pictures, Belvedere Vodka and Vanity Fair Celebration of 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' And 'The Descendants' at the Thompson Hotel during the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival Toronto, Canada
Billy Crystal and Vanity Fair Monday 28th February 2011 2011 Vanity Fair Oscar Party at the Sunset Tower Hotel Hollywood, California
Steven Tyler, Liv Tyler and Vanity Fair - Steven Tyler and Liv Tyler West Hollywood, California - 2011 Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Sunset Tower Hotel - Arrivals Sunday 27th February 2011
Justin Bieber and Vanity Fair appears covered in kisses on the February 2011 cover of Vanity Fair magazine USA
Ewan McGregor and Vanity Fair - Ewan McGregor, Eve Mavrakis New York City, USA - World premiere of 'Amelia' presented by Bloomingdale's & Vanity Fair, held at Paris theatre Tuesday 20th October 2009
Vanity Fair - Reese talks about her Vanity - Video Streams
One of America’s most popular stars, Reese Witherspoon, unites with one of the world’s most acclaimed directors, Mira Nair, to bring to the screen one of the greatest female characters ever created, Rebecca (Becky) Sharp. The new film version of the classic novel by William Makepeace Thackeray introduces a new audience to the beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating Becky.
The daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl, Becky is orphaned at a young age. Even as a child, she yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises. As she leaves Miss Pinkerton’s Academy at Chiswick, Becky resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. She deploys all of her wit, guile, and sexuality as she makes her way up into high society during the first quarter of the 19th century.
Becky’s ascension to the heights of society commences when she gains employment as governess to the daughters of eccentric Sir Pitt Crawley (Bob Hoskins). Becky wins over the children, and the Crawley family’s rich spinster aunt Matilda (Eileen Atkins) as well. The rural Hampshire household comes to find her indispensable, and Matilda comes to confide in the bright young woman.
But Becky knows that she cannot be a true part of English society until she moves to the city. When Matilda invites her to come live in London, Becky eagerly accepts. There, Becky is reunited with her best friend Amelia Sedley (Romola Garai), who – having grown up comfortably – does not share Becky’s more brazen ambitions. Hewing close to the family she already knows so well, Becky secretly marries dashing heir Rawdon Crawley (James Purefoy) – but when Matilda discovers their union, she casts the newlyweds out.
When Napoleon invades Europe, Rawdon bravely reports to the front lines. Pregnant Becky stands by distraught newlywed Amelia, whose own husband George Osborne (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is also called to fight. When George does not survive the Battle of Waterloo, Becky’s friendship with Amelia is strained beyond repair. Becky is reunited with Rawdon and gives birth to a boy, but, post-war, money and comforts are sparse for the trio.
