Vanity Fair

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Vanity Fair may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Literature

  • Vanity Fair, a location in The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), by John Bunyan
  • Vanity Fair (novel), 1848, by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Vanity Fair (magazine), contemporary American magazine
    • Historical magazines named Vanity Fair, list of historical magazines with the same name, including:
      • Vanity Fair (British magazine), 1868–1914
      • Vanity Fair (American magazine 1913–1936)

Film

  • Vanity Fair (1911 film), directed by Charles Kent
  • Vanity Fair (1915 film), a silent film directed by Charles Brabin and made by the Edison Company
  • Vanity Fair (1922 film), a silent British film directed by Walter Courtney Rowden
  • Vanity Fair (1923 film), a lost silent feature film directed by Hugo Ballin and produced by Samuel Goldwyn, with Prizmacolor sequence
  • Vanity Fair (1932 film), directed by Chester M. Franklin and starring Myrna Loy, with the story updated to make Becky Sharp a social-climbing governess
  • Vanity Fair (2004 film), directed by Mira Nair and starring Reese Witherspoon

Music

  • Vanity Fair, a 1996 album by Seiko Matsuda
  • "Vanity Fair", a song by Mr. Bungle from the 1999 album California
  • "Vanity Fair", a 1952 orchestral music composition by Anthony Collins
  • "Vanity Fair", a song by Squeeze from the 1981 album East Side Story
  • "Vanity Fair", a 1990 song by the Ocean Blue
  • "Vanity Fair", a song by World Party from the 1997 album Egyptology
  • "Riding to Vanity Fair", a song by Paul McCartney from the 2005 album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
  • "Vanity Fair", an overture by Percy Fletcher (1879–1932)

Radio

  • "Vanity Fair", a one-hour adaptation featuring Helen Hayes and Agnes Moorehead first broadcast on 7 January 1940 on Campbell Playhouse
  • Vanity Fair, a 2004 BBC Radio broadcast adaptation by Stephen Wyatt, starring Emma Fielding as Becky
  • Vanity Fair, a 2019 BBC Radio 4 three-part adaptation by Jim Poyser with additional material by Al Murray

Television

  • Vanity Fair (1939 TV series), a British television series about fashion
  • Vanity Fair (1956 TV series), a British miniseries on BBC starring Joyce Redman
  • Vanity Fair (1967 TV serial), a British miniseries on BBC starring Susan Hampshire
  • Vanity Fair (1978 TV series), a Hong Kong television series
  • Vanity Fair (1987 TV serial), a British miniseries on BBC featuring James Saxon
  • Vanity Fair (1998 TV serial), a British miniseries on BBC starring Natasha Little
  • Vanity Fair (2018 TV series), a British miniseries on ITV starring Olivia Cooke

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

  • Vanity Bonfire Fair, a fictional character from the 2005 novel Orphans of Chaos by John C. Wright

Brands and enterprises

  • VF Corporation, formerly Vanity Fair Mills, an apparel and footwear company
  • Vanity Fair (underwear), a brand of underwear owned by Fruit of the Loom
  • Vanity Fair, a brand of napkin owned by Georgia-Pacific

See also

  • Becky Sharp (film), a 1935 adaptation of Thackeray's novel starring Miriam Hopkins
  • Vanity Fare, a 1960s UK pop/rock group

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