Chic at Cannes

The Cannes Film Festival is in full swing on the French Riviera right now but stars have been posing on La Croisette since the first festival in 1947. The heyday for me was the time of the late 1950's to early 1960's from when these photos were taken.  While today's celebrities look pretty good, they can't hold a candle to the movie stars of the past. C'est magnifique!

Sophia Loren, 1959

Natalie Wood sailing at Cannes in 1962. 

Cary grant and Kim Novak in 1959.

Ingrid Bergman in 1956.

Cannes Film Festival in 1956.

Romy Schneider at Cannes.

Outside Cannes Film Festival in 1962.

Orson Welles in 1958.

A Dutch actress in 1962.

Natalie Wood looking tres chic at Cannes in 1962.

German actress Elke Sommer at Cannes in 1962.

Ginger Rogers at Cannes in 1956.

Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini in 1956.

Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty in 1962.

Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin at Cannes.

Elizabeth Taylor at Cannes. 

Grace Kelly

Romy Schneider

They don't make them like they used to...

In honor of the Oscars, I thought it would be fun to take a look at some vintage stars and their statues.  I love how so many of them are genuinely smiling and happy.  Of course, if you just won an Academy Award, you'd be smiling too.  They just seem so much more relaxed than the stars of today. The focus seems more on the films and not the fashion.  They really don't make them like they used to! 

Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Joan Crawford and Fernando Lamas

Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly backstage.

Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly backstage.

Audrey Hepburn

Cary Grant

 

Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher

Oleg Cassini and Grace Kelly

James Dean

Olivia de Havilland, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, and David Selznick

Paul Newman

Bette Davis, Marlon Brando, and Grace Kelly

Julie Andrews and Audrey Hepburn

Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty

Robert Redford

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward

Sidney Poitier and Anne Brancroft

Steve McQueen, wife Neile, Claudia Cardinale and Rock Hudson

Faye Dunaway photographed by Terry O'Neill at breakfast 29 March 1977 at the Beverly Hills Hotel the day after winning an Academy Award for Network.