The French actress and filmmaker during the first festival held in September 1946. Morgan received the best actress award for her performance in La Symphonie Pastorale.
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The Frenchman later won the best actor prize for the 1953 film The Wages of Fear.
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The famed director won the Palme d'Or the previous year for Othello.
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Simone Silva and Robert Mitchum strike a pose in April 1954. In the rush to snap the photo, one photographer broke his leg and another broke his arm. Silva was asked to leave Cannes.
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The actress met future husband Rainier III, Prince of Monaco during a photo shoot while acting as U.S. delegate for the fest.
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The actress watches the artist at work in his Vallauris studio.
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Taylor and her third husband months after they were married.
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The American actress was nicknamed "The Queen of Technicolor" for her bright red hair.
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The French singer and actress during her breakout year starring in Purple Noon, based on the novel The Talented Mr. Ripley.
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The couple costarred in Splendor in the Grass.
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The Italian bombshell captured the best actress award five years before for her work in Two Women.
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Hopper won the First Film Award for directing the groundbreaking biker movie Easy Rider.
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The classic American singer and actress poses for the film Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, directed by Otto Preminger.
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The Beatle and his bride accompany the French director, whose film Murmur of the Heart was an official selection at the fest.
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The director's Frenzy was screened during the 1972 festival.
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The English actors starred in the modernist version of Macbeth directed by the Polish auteur.
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The husband and wife team presented The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds during Cannes. Newman directed the film and Woodward won the best actress prize for her leading role.
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The future governor of California starred in Pumping Iron, a documentary about the Mr. Olympia bodybuilding competition.
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The horror film star typically played the screaming damsel in distress in roles.
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The royal couple attended a gala in honor of Sir Alec Guinness.
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The perpetual tanners arrive at a screening of Le Cinema dans les yeux, a retrospective documentary made for the fest's 40th anniversary.
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The muse and director of the documentary In Bed with Madonna (or Truth or Dare) which chronicles the Material Girl's 1990 Blond Ambition tour.
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Their film Far and Away was out of competition and presented to close the 45th Cannes Film Festival.
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Their film Sunchaser was chosen to be screened in competition at the festival.
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The unlikely pairing arrived for a screening of their film Entrapment at the 52nd Cannes Film Festival.
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The actress attends a sneak preview of the film Gangs of New York offered by director Martin Scorsese.
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The golden couple arrive for the screening of Pitt's headlining turn in Troy, directed by Wolfgang Petersen.
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The group arrives for a screening of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, shown out of competition at the 58th anniversary of the festival.
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The creative forces behind The Da Vinci Code arrive for the opening night preview of the film.
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The duo arrive for the premiere of the film Kung Fu Panda.
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Christoph Waltz, Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Quentin Tarantino, Melanie Laurent, Lawrence Bender and Michael Fassbender at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.
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