Spiegel Stuff: Behind the Royal Family’s PR Strategy; a Very American Dynasty; Inside the Real Peyton Place

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When it comes to tales of wealth and scandal, we've got you covered. From the power struggles of two wealthy dynasties to alleged Mob hits within the entertainment industry, you can dig into it all in this week's VF Archive digest.

All in the Family

Behind the scenes of the fourth generation of Gettys—a lively batch of great-grandchildren from America's most infamous oil dynasty.

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Glamour and Goulash

Magda, Zsa Zsa, Eva. The diamonds, the husbands (20 of them), the accents, the lovingly displayed décolletage. Primed for the spotlight by their mother, the Hungarian émigré trio turned their glamour to "stun," wowing even such connoisseurs as John F. Kennedy, Conrad Hilton, Frank Sinatra, and Porfirio Rubirosa. Bruce Handy explores their enduring legend: hard work, lots of sex, and a pioneering instinct for the demands of postmodern American celebrity.

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The Color of Love

Harry Cohn created Kim Novak to be his perfect blonde star, and with her performance in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, she seemed to have fulfilled his dream. But in 1957, she fell in love with Sammy Davis Jr., who, with his immense popularity, was breaking the race barrier of a firmly segregated entertainment industry. The backlash against their affair—including an alleged Mob hit ordered by Cohn—exposed the heartbreaking coda to the romance that Hollywood forbade.

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All the Angles

Erin Vanderhoof examines how the royal family's power struggles are playing out in the press and on social media—and whether Charles can revolutionize his family's PR strategy for a new era.

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Peyton Place's Real Victim

The novel Peyton Place shocked America with its tale of secrets, sex, and hypocrisy in a small New Hampshire town, becoming one of the best-selling dirty books ever, a hit movie, and TV's first prime-time soap. It brought fame and misfortune to Grace Metalious, the bawdy, rebellious housewife who wrote it, and outraged the citizens of Gilmanton—"the real Peyton Place."

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Saturday, March 16, 2024

Behind the Royal Family’s PR Strategy; a Very American Dynasty; Inside the Real Peyton Place

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