To celebrate the 2012 program, which commences today, Vanity Fair remembers the festival’s golden age in the 1950s and 60s, when Old Hollywood’s most famous residents decamped to Cannes for their yearly infusion of sunny Riviera glamour.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
65 Years at Cannes
de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception
The Cannes Film Festival is not only the most prestigious of the world’s cine-centric celebrations but arguably the most picturesque. For the past 65 years, the festival has allowed Hollywood icons to trade the grit of the Walk of Fame for the breezy charm of the Croisette, the palm-lined promenade that zips around the French town’s stretch of the Mediterranean. Centered at the Palais des Festivals, the event has hosted a free-spirited Brigitte Bardot just months before her sex-kitten re-christening in And God Created Woman; an impeccably styled Grace Kelly just days before she met the Monegasque royal who would make her a princess; and a diamond-decked Elizabeth Taylor, visiting with her third prince, Mike Todd.
To celebrate the 2012 program, which commences today, Vanity Fair remembers the festival’s golden age in the 1950s and 60s, when Old Hollywood’s most famous residents decamped to Cannes for their yearly infusion of sunny Riviera glamour.
To celebrate the 2012 program, which commences today, Vanity Fair remembers the festival’s golden age in the 1950s and 60s, when Old Hollywood’s most famous residents decamped to Cannes for their yearly infusion of sunny Riviera glamour.
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