Classic Cannes
As the 63rd Cannes Film Festival gets under way in the south of France, The Daily Beast looks back at the galaxy of stars who have lit up the Croisette. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
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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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