Perfect coffee table book for the holidays

From the Editors of Vanity Fair "Oscar Night : 75 Years of Hollywood Parties" with 384 pages filled with full-page and, often, double-page candids of famous faces on Oscar nights from the first giveaway in 1929 to the most recent one in February. With most eye popping images is the one with Elizabeth Taylor wearing a 69.42 carat diamond as she enters the 1969 Oscar party with husband Richard Burton.

Another book is "The Bad & the Beautiful". A gorgeous compilation of 160 photographs by Ellen Graham and written by John Loring covering a wide range of faces, including Lena Horne, Joe Louis, Jack Nicholson, Marlene Dietrich, Carmen Dell’Orefice, Al Hirschfeld, Sophia Loren, Gloria Swanson, Bernadette Peters and Kevin Kline and Monaco’s Prince Albert, as well as various socialites and street subjects.

"Hollywood Life: The Glamorous Homes of Vintage Hollywood", featuring photographs by the late Eliot Elisofon. It contains extraordinary glimpses, in gorgeous color, of such showplace homes as those of George Cukor, Bill and Edie Goetz, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Rock Hudson, Kirk and Anne Douglas, Edith Head, Natalie Wood, Cecil B. DeMille, Charlton and Lydia Heston, Gypsy Rose Lee, Jennifer Jones and David O. Selznick, Bobby Darin and numerous others.