Cannes Film Festival: Glamorous stars on the French Riviera during the golden age of cinema
Now in its 70th year, the festival is always one of the most dazzling events in the entertainment calendar, with people lining the streets to catch a glimpse of celebrities.
Hollywood A-listers, French film stars and world cinema auteurs are descending on the French Riviera for the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, which begins on Wednesday 17 May.
Now in its 70th year, the festival is always one of the most dazzling events in the entertainment calendar, with people lining the streets to catch a glimpse of celebrities.
In this gallery, IBTimes UK presents photographs of the brightest stars who lit up the Croisette at the Cannes Film Festival during cinema's golden age.
1947: Film stars parade in the street of Cannes in southern France, during the first Cannes Film FestivalAFP1952: The Begum (Yvonne Blanche Labrousse), fourth and last wife of Aga Khan III, arrives at the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1953: Brigitte Bardot, wearing a bikini, poses on the beach in CannesGetty1953: Actor Joseph Lifela signs autographs for actresses Simone Delamare and Vania Orico at the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1953: Tilda Thamar films Kirk Douglas pulling faces during the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1953: Gisele Pascal goes for a boat ride during the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1953: Leslie Caron feeds the pigeons during the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1954: Grace Kelly at the Cannes Film Festival, where she first met Prince Rainier of MonacoGetty1954: French actor Franck Villard, wearing a deep-sea diving suit (and smoking a cigarette), receives a kiss from German actress Dora DollGetty1954: Sophia Loren attends the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1954: Arlene Dahl arrives at Orly airport in Paris on her way to the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1954: Jack Palance chats to Robert Mitchum during the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1954: British actress Simone Silva poses topless with Robert Mitchum during the Cannes film festival. Having been elected 'Miss Festival', Simone Silva was asked to leave the festival after her semi-nude pose which resulted in one photographer breaking his arm and another his leg in the rush for picturesGetty1954: French actress Edwige Feuillere dines on board the Mistral train on her way from Lyon to Cannes for the film festivalGetty1955: Sophia Loren, Giuditta Rissone and her husband Italian director Vittorio De Sica arrive at the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1955: American actress Grace Kelly attends the film festivalGetty1955: Grace Kelly holds a bouquet of flowers at the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1955: Pablo Picasso attends a bullfight near Cannes with French poet and film director Jean CocteauGetty1956: Blonde bombshell Diana Dors poses at Cannes Film FestivalGetty1956: Aspiring starlet Brigitte Bardot runs barefoot along the beach in CannesGetty1956: Brigitte Bardot watches Pablo Picasso at work in his studio in Vallauris during the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1957: French singer and actress Line Renaud at a potter's shop during the International Cannes Film FestivalGetty1957: Elizabeth Taylor dining at the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1958: Genevieve Page is pictured at the wheel of a yacht during the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1958: Alain Delon and Bella Darvi go boating during CannesGetty1958: Sophia Loren poses for photographers during the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1958: Jeanne Moreau stands on a table during a meal at the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1958: Photographers surround Sophia Loren as she arrives at the Cannes Film Festival with her husband Carlo PontiGetty1959: Sophia Loren poses on the window ledge of her hotel in Cannes, promoting the film Nella città l'inferno (aka Caged), directed by Renato CastellaniGetty1959: French actress Michèle Mercier relaxes during the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1959: Kim Novak attends the festival with a very tanned Cary GrantGetty1959: French actress Agnès Laurent poses in Cannes during the film festivalGetty1960: Federico Fellini, holding the Palme d'Or, awarded unanimously for his film La Dolce Vita, poses with fellow winners Melina Mercouri and Jeanne MoreauGetty1960: Anouk Aimee and Marcello Mastroianni arrive at the Cannes Film Festival to promote their film La Dolce VitaGetty1960: Micheline Presle and Michel Auclair check their reflections in nearby car windows during the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1961: Alain Delon signs autographs for young fans in Cannes during the film festivalGetty1962: Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood pose for photographers at the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1962: Alain Delon, Sophia Loren and Romy Schneider arrive at the Palais des Festivals et des CongrèsAFP1963: Former model and showgirl Christine Keeler arrives in Cannes during the film festival. The following month, British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigned over his affair with KeelerGetty1964: Wearing a bikini, Jayne Mansfield holds her chihuahua on the beach during the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1965: Sean Connery is driven down the Croisette in an open-topped carGetty1965: Ursula Andress is mobbed by members of the mediaGetty1965: Swiss film actress Ursula Andress at the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1965: Yves Montand poses on board his yacht at CannesGetty1966: Sammy Davis Jr borrows a cap from a group of Italian sailors during the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1966: Wearing earrings and a necklace by Van Cleef and Arpels, Sophia Loren arrives at the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1966: French actress Catherine Deneuve attends the Cannes Film Festival with David Bailey (right)Getty1967: Geraldine Chaplin smokes a cigar at the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1967: Brigitte Bardot and Serge GainsbourgGetty1967: Vanessa Redgrave attends the premier of Blow Up with her partner, Italian actor Franco Nero. They eventually married in 2006Getty1971: Keith Richards escorts his partner, actress Anita Pallenberg and their two children to a screening of Rolling Stones concert film Gimme ShelterGetty1972: Francesca Annis and Jon Finch pose with Roman Polanski at the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1972: Alfred Hitchcock poses on a boat during the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1973: Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Marco Ferreri and Andréa Ferréol pose together after the crowd booed at the screening of Ferreri's controversial film La Grande BouffeGetty1974: Jack Nicholson poses in a bathrobe by the pool outside his hotel during the Cannes Film FestivalGetty1974: Jane Birkin goes out on a pedalo during the 28th Cannes Film FestivalAFP1974: Jean-Paul Belmondo smiles for the camera during the Cannes Film FestivalAFP1977: Arnold Schwarzenegger promotes bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron during the 38th Cannes Film FestivalAFP
