Vanity Fair Movie Quotes

The New York of the plays, the movies, the books; the New York of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair and Vogue. It was a beacon, a spire, a beacon on top of a spire. A light, always glowing from afar, visible even from the cornfields of Iowa, the foothills of the Dakotas, the deserts of California. The swamps of Louisiana. Beckoning, always beckoning. Summoning the discontented, seducing the dreamers. Those whose blood ran too hot, and too quickly, causing them to look about at their placid families, their staid neighbors, the graves of their slumbering ancestors and say— I’m different. I’m special. I’m more. They all came to New York.

I ran into Chris Pratt a few months later. He was surrounded by reporters and focused on selling a movie, but he shouted when he saw me: "Hey, dude! The Cubs! The Cubs! Our prayer worked!

[Al Capone's] highest achievement is that of carrying Hollywood and Broadway on his shoulders. Most of the writers, dramatists, actors, scenarists and professors of sociology are living off he Big Boy to-day. If anything went wrong with the Capone department of belles-lettres, the publishing business would totter. The big racketeer has solved the problems of the motion picture industry [as well]. Capone came along to change the subject and give sex a well-earned holiday. The movie massacres were like a breath of pure air after all the impropriety and misconduct of the films.” Alva Johnston, “Capone, King of Crime,” May 1931

The impact of the talkies on Hollywood and Main Street has been staggering... When the singing sequences which Al Jolson made in The Jazz Singer put that rather ordinary picture into the million-dollar class, the other producers too began to look up rival methods of synchronizing sound and sight. [Soon] Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn, and First National were scrambling... George S. Kaufman, with a great childlike trust in the omnipotence of science, visualizes the day when the cinema will conquer a third sense and begin to advertise: See, Hear, and Feel Your Favorite Movie Star" Kenneth Macgowan, “Stop, Look and Listen!” November 1928