Beautiful photos of Cannes through the decades
The film festival has always been associated with the height of glamour - and nothing says so more than these vintage photographs
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Your support makes all the difference.A look back over four decades of the world's most renown film festival.
Brigitte Bardot runs barefoot along Cannes beach,1956
Party guests recreate a classic scene from La Dolce Vita, 1960
Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood pose for photographers,1962
Sophia Loren waves to photographers, 1964
French actress Catherine Deneuve, 1966
George Harrison with his wife Patti Boyd on their way to Cannes, 1968
English director Alfred Hitchcock arrives on the Croisette by bicycle, 1972
Jane Birkin goes out on a pedalo, 1974
Arnold Schwarzenegger poses on the Cannes beach, 1977
British actress Floella Benjamin poses on the beach, 1977
Paul and Linda McCartney, 1980
David Bowie gives a press conference presenting the Japanese movie 'Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence', 1983
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