Spiegel Stuff: JFK’s Favorite Hostess; a DiCaprio Throwback; When Hollywood Went Noir

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In this week's VF Archive digest, we present a blue-blooded woman fascinated with power, a mysterious murder in the dog world, and a look back at Leo's early days.

Camelot's Second Lady

Beautiful, blue-blooded, and fascinated by power, Susan Mary Alsop spent her first marriage as the darling of postwar Paris diplomatic circles. Alongside her second husband, renowned columnist Joseph Alsop, she reigned as JFK's favorite Georgetown hostess. Finally, after her divorce, she tackled history on her own terms as an acclaimed author.

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The Beryl Markham Mystery

Questions buzz around the aviator like flies. Did she break up Isak Dinesen's great love affair? How was she connected with the British royal family? Was she the sole author of West With the Night, the memoir that made Hemingway gush? James Fox pieces together the puzzle.

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Leonardo Takes Wing

Playing the hero of Titanic, James Cameron's monumental $200 million love-story-within-an-epic, Leonardo DiCaprio found himself hoisted on hydraulic cranes and, surrounded by 200 extras on bungee cords, flying above a 17-million-gallon water tank. Tracing DiCaprio's rise, Cathy Horyn squares the contradictions of a Hollywood heartthrob who—at the time—still lived with his mother.

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Day Into Noir

Between the Great Depression and the start of the Cold War, Hollywood went noir, reflecting the worldly and wised-up undercurrent of midcentury America. As for why killers, corpses, and perilous romance continue to seduce us? Ann Douglas investigates.

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A Pedigreed Murder

In March 2015, as Crufts, the most important dog show in the world, drew to a close in Birmingham, England, the shocking news spread like wildfire: a champion Irish setter, Thendara Satisfaction, nicknamed Jagger, had been poisoned. Reporting on the uproar, as well as other controversies roiling Crufts, Mark Seal delves into the dark underside of the show-dog world.

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Saturday, November 11, 2023

JFK’s Favorite Hostess; a DiCaprio Throwback; When Hollywood Went Noir

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