VANITY FAIR HOLLYWOOD ISSUE 2008

If today's Hollywood highlight is a Britney Spear's paparazzi car chase in Beverly Hills, once upon a time, Hollywood was synonym of glamour. Each year for the Oscars season Vanity Fair recreate this fabulous era long gone, with today's fresh faces of Hollywood.

Alfred Hitchcock created some of the most arresting images in film history. For this year’s Hollywood Portfolio, the heart of their 14th annual Hollywood Issue, 21 of the finest actors working today have joined with four regular Vanity Fair photographers to re-create 11 of Hitchcock’s most iconic scenes.

From the top, Rear Window with Scarlett Johansson and Javier Bardem as Grace Kelly and James Stewart. The Birds with Jodie Foster as Tipi Hedren and Renée Zellweger in Vertigo all photographed by Norman Jean Roy. More photos from this Hollywood issue of Vanity Fair here.

Gwyneth Platrow and Robert Downey Jr as grace Kelly and Gary Grant in To Catch A Thief.

Emile Hirsch and James McAvoy for Stranger On A Train.

Lifeboat with Tang Wei, Josh Brolin, casey Affleck, Eva Marie Sanit, Ben Foster, Omar Metwally and Julie Christie.

Naomi Watts as Tippi Hedren in Marnie

And Dial M For Murder with Charlize Theron as Grace Kelly. See here the photos of this year’s fresh faces by Kathryn Athryn MacLeod on Annie Leibovitz's set for the cover of the Hollywood Issue with Anne Hathaway, Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Jessica Biel, America Ferrera and more ...