Cannes History in Photos: Fashion, Film, Nudity...Borat?
Cannes History in Photos: Fashion, Film, Nudity...Borat?
The Cannes Film Festival means stars from around the world will gather to celebrate the year's cinematic gems―and show off their best fashions and most outrageous shenanigans. Here, some of the most gorgeous, weirdest, and memorable moments in Cannes' history.
Prince Charles and Princess Diana, 1987
Princess Diana created an iconic moment when she walked the red carpet in this powder blue Catherine Walker dress. In 2011, this look sold at auction for ￡81k.
Bjork, 2000
Bjork being Bjork.
Simone Silva and Robert Mitchum, 1954
When Simone Silva posed topless at Cannes, she inspired a melee where one photographer broke his arm and another broke his leg. She was later asked to leave the festival.
Sharon Stone, 1995
Sharon Stone wearing a bedazzled romper with a tearaway butt-cape.
Diana Dors and Ginger Rogers, 1956
Even before Instagram, Snapchat, and selfies (or cell phones for that matter) were born, movie stars of the Diana Dors and Ginger Rogers-pedigree attracted plenty of paparazzi.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1977
Quite a few years before he became The Governator.
Vanessa Redgrave, 1967
Vanessa Redgrave wearing head-to-toe spangles.
Olga Macova, 1995
Czech actress Olga Macova stripped for the photographers in between photo calls.
Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Luc Besson, and Milla Jovovich, 1997
Here's a fact crazier than Jovovich's outfit: Besson left his wife, whom he impregnated when she was 16, for Jovovich on the set of The Fifth Element.
Robert Redford, Sydney Pollack, Aniela Mlynarska, and Arthur Rubinstein, 1972
Collaborators Robert Redford and Sydney Pollack pose with great pianist Arthur Rubinstein and his wife, Aniela Mlynarska.
Kirk Douglas and Brigitte Bardot, 1953
Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren, 1958
They remained married until Ponti's death in 2007. Loren's answer to whether she would remarry was, "No, never again. It would be impossible to love anyone else."
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, 2008
During the Cannes Film Festival, Jack Black accidentally let slip that his Kung Fu Panda costar was expecting twins with husband Brad Pitt, when he told Jolie during an interview, "You're gonna have as many as [the] Brady Bunch when you have these."
Michael Caine, 1966
To promote the film Alfie, Michael Caine hung outwith a bunch of models wearing pants emblazoned with his womanizing alter-ego's name on the butt.
Sacha Baron Cohen, 2006
It's a banana hammock, not a monokini. Technically.
Yoko Ono and John Lennon, 1970
This was just a year after they married and a decade before Lennon's death.
Francis Ford Coppola and Sofia Coppola, 1979
A tuxedo-clad Sofia Coppola atop her father's shoulders.
Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones, 1999
A power couple that never was, except onscreen in Entrapment.
Noel Godin, 2004
The "Belgian pie-thrower" was thrown off the red carpet before he could pull a dessert-themed stunt on the red carpet.
Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling, 2011
The Danish auteur thanks his muse.
Elizabeth Taylor, 1987
It was the '80s.
Grace Kelly, 1955
She would become the Princess of Monaco in a year.
Hagen, 2014
The breakout star of canine revenge filmWhite God.
Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, America Ferrera, Kit Harington, and Djimon Hounsou
Notorious prankster Vitalii Sediuk snuck under America Ferrera's dress at the How To Train Your Dragon 2 premiere.
Cookie enthusiast, 2013
Remember Borat in a banana hammock?