Beautiful photos of Cannes through the decades

The film festival has always been associated with the height of glamour - and nothing says so more than these vintage photographs

Friday 22 May 2015 10:50 BST

Diana Dors, the starlet, with the Cadillac in which she arrived at the Cannes Film Festival (Getty Images)

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A look back over four decades of the world's most renown film festival.

Brigitte Bardot runs barefoot along Cannes beach,1956