
François Truffaut and Orson Welles at the Cannes Film Festival. 1966.

François Truffaut and Orson Welles at the Cannes Film Festival. 1966.
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Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin on the beach at Cannes Film Festival. 1969.
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Simone Silva and Robert Mitchum at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. The world wasn’t yet ready for such immodesty in 1954 and Ms Silva was stripped of her (phony) Miss Festival title. Mitchum—like Justin Timberlake 50 years later—walked away, like he did from most things, unscathed.



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Charlotte Rampling at the Cannes Film Festival. 1976.
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Natalie Wood poses for a sailor at Cannes. 1962.
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Sophia Loren on her balcony at Cannes. 1959.
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Sir Charles Evans, director general of the British Film Producers Association, with Hollywood actress Nancy Kovack, at a Samba band parade during the Rio International Film Festival. 1965.
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William Holden at the Cannes screening of Billy Wilder‘s Fedora. 1978.
And that’s Jacques Tati that Holden is staring at, right?
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Emmanuelle star Sylvia Kristel, who died earlier this month at age 60, at Cannes. 1975.


And at Cannes. 1976.
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Erich Von Stroheim and Denise Vernac at Cannes. 1947.
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