The Best, Weirdest, Most Memorable Moments in Cannes History

From to Lady Diana in iconic Catherine Walker to Sacha Baron Cohen in a banana hammock.

Mar 21, 2018
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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 81,000 British pounds.

Bjork being Bjork.

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 wearing a bedazzled romper with a tearaway butt-cape.

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.

Quite a few years before he became the Governator.

Vanessa Redgrave wearing head-to-toe spangles.

Czech actress Olga Macova stripped for the photographers in between photo-calls.

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.

Collaborators Robert Redford and Sydney Pollack pose with great pianist Arthur Rubinstein and his wife, Aniela Mlynarska.

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."

During the Cannes Film Festival, Jack Black accidentally let slip that his Kung Fu Panda co-star was expecting twins with husband Brad Pitt, when he told Angelina during an interview, "You're gonna have as many as [the] Brady Bunch when you have these."

To promote the film Alfie, Michael Caine hung out with a bunch of models wearing pants emblazoned with his womanizing alter-ego's name on the butt.

It's a banana hammock, not a monokini. Technically.

This was just a year after they married and a decade before Lennon's death.

A tuxedo-clad Sofia Coppola atop her father's shoulders.

A power couple that never was, except onscreen in Entrapment.

The "Belgian pie-thrower" was thrown off the red carpet before he could pull a dessert-themed stunt on the red carpet.

The Danish auteur thanks his muse.

It was the '80s.

She would become the Princess of Monaco in a year.

The breakout star of canine revenge filmWhite God.

Notorious prankster Vitalii Sediuk snuck under America Ferrera's dress at the How to Train Your Dragon 2 premiere.

From: ELLE

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