THE HOLLYWOOD ISSUE

It’s Showtime!

Annie Leibovitz photographs the nine dolls on V.F.’s cover, as Evgenia Peretz explains why Anna Kendrick, Kristen Stewart, Carey Mulligan, et al. are nobody’s playthings.

By EVGENIA PERETZ | Photographs by ANNIE LEIBOVITZ | Styled by MICHAEL ROBERTS | March 2010

In August 2000, Vanity Fair featured a rising young star on its cover: Heath Ledger. Bruce Weber’s photographs captured the looks, character, and promise that the actor’s co-workers and friends described in the accompanying cover story. Ledger fulfilled that promise before his untimely death, in January 2008. Here, a selection of images from Weber’s shoot, both published and unpublished. Related: “We’re Havin’ a Heath Wave,” by Kevin Sessums.