Tuesday 22 May 2012

The Prestigious and Glamorous Cannes Film Festival


The 65th Cannes Film Festival is in full swing with its highs and lows, flashing bulbs, divas and drama. Since the film festival was born in 1946, this picturesque coastal town on the French Riviera has been transformed for a week a year. Old Hollywood’s most famous residents have decamped to Cannes for their yearly infusion of sunny Riviera glamour and mingled with fabulous European bombshells, world-class directors and the odd screen Adonis.
So, true to form, we're revisiting vintage photographs from the festival in decades past and mining a few of their gems. Here’s our walk down that glittering memory lane...

1955 - Esther Williams blows kisses to reporters

1955 - Grace Kelly With Gene Kelly

1955 - Gina Lollobrigida is surrounded by French Navy sailors

1956 - Brigitte Bardot arrives at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of And God Created Woman.

1956 - Ingrid Bergman at a cocktail table at the Cannes Film Festival

1956 - Ginger Rogers poses in a black bathing suit in front of the Carlton Hotel at the 9th Cannes Film Festival

1956 - Diana Dors and Ginger Rogers

1957 - Elizabeth Taylor is pictured at the 10th Festival

1958 - Alain Delon and Bella Darvi go boating during the Cannes Film Festival

1958 - Jayne Mansfield

1959 - Kim Novak and Cary Grant attend the 12th of the Festival

1959 - Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren arrive at the Cannes Film Festival

1962 - Alain Delon offers Romy Schneider a cigarette

1962 - Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood attend the festival

1962 - Alain Delon and Sofia Loren

1962 - Elke Sommer

1963 -  Romy Schneider and French director Henri-Georges Clouzot

1966 - Catherine Deneuve and husband David Bailey attend the Cannes Film Festival

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