Vanity Fair

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 (magazines), the title of several magazines including:
  • Vanity Fair (British magazine), 1868–1914
  • Vanity Fair (American magazine 1913–1936)
  • Vanity Fair (magazine), 1983–present

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 half-hour adaptation with Joan Lorring as Becky Sharp first broadcast 6 December 1947 on Favorite Story
• Vanity Fair, a 1978 BBC Radio 4 ten-part serial with Sarah Badel as Becky, Timothy West as Joseph Sedley and Alec McCowen as William Thackeray
• 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