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These Rarely-Seen Cannes Film Festival Images from the Golden Age of Hollywood Are Making Us All Nostalgic

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For 68 years, stars have gathered at the Cannes Film Festival, and for 68 years we have been obsessed with following all the celebs, fashion and wild after-parties. Today big names like Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett and Emma Stone are queens of the red carpet, but once upon a time that title was held by ladies like Sophia Loren, Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor. Brigitte Bardot once strolled along the beach with Kirk Douglas, Ingrid Bergman hung out with Anthony Perkins and Michael Caine was a total ladies’ man (some would argue he still is). This year’s red carpet images might be all over your Twitter feed, but we bet you haven’t seen some of these great vintage shots from the Cannes of yesteryear.

American film producer Mike Todd kisses his wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor, at the Cannes Film Festival. Circa 1957.

Actors Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood at the Cannes Film Festival. May, 14 1962.

Actress Anne Baxter dancing with film director Orson Welles at the Cannes Film Festival. April 1953.

French actress Brigitte Bardot and American actor Kirk Douglas at the Cannes Film Festival. April 1953.

Actress Ann Baxter with artist Jean Cocteau and Walt Disney at the International Cannes Film Festival. April 20, 1953.

French actress Leslie Caron feeding pigeons during the Cannes Film Festival. April 21, 1953.

Jodie Foster and Robert De Niro answer questions at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1976.

American comic writer and actor Groucho Marx at the Cannes Film Festival. May 1972.

British film director, Alfred Hitchcock with Princess Grace of Monaco at the Cannes Film Festival. May 1972.

Yoko Ono and John Lennon with French film director Louis Malle and French actress Jeanne Moreau at the Cannes Film Festival for a screening of Malle's film Le Souffle Au Coeur. May 17, 1971.

Beatles drummer Ringo Starr chats with French film director Roman Polanski at the Cannes Film Festival, while attending a screening of the British film Joanna. May 17, 1968.

American actress Kim Novak with Cary Grant at the Cannes Film Festival. May, 15 1959. On the right is Robert Favre Le Bret, the festival's founder.

Actresses Mitzi Gaynor and Sophia Loren at the Cannes Film Festival. May 4,1958.

British actress Diana Dors at the Cannes Film Festival. Circa 1956.

Actors Shirley MacLaine and Robert Hossein at the opening gala of the Cannes Film Festival. April 29, 1967.

English actor Michael Caine, star of the film Alfie, poses with models during the Cannes Film Festival. May 1966.

American actress Jayne Mansfield on the beach with her chihuahua during the Cannes Film Festival. May 11, 1964.

Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and American actor Anthony Perkins at the Cannes Film Festival. May 17, 1961.

Melina Mercouri and Jules Dassin during a party for the film Never on Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival. May 10, 1960.

French actress Brigitte Bardot with Spanish artist Pablo Picasso at his studio in Vallauris on the Cote d'Azur, during the Cannes Film Festival. April 1956.

American actress Grace Kelly during the Cannes Film Festival. May 6, 1955.

American actor Robert Mitchum signing autographs for fans at the Cannes Film Festival. French actress Lise Bourdin is on the right. Circa 1954.

Actor and dancer Gene Kelly with his first wife Betsy Blair at the Cannes Film Festival. April 26, 1952.

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