I found some lovely old Cannes photos while poking around the internet today.

Brigitte Bardot gets her hair did by Kirk Douglas in 1953
Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin stroll along the beach in 1974

Paparazzi ready for action, 1962

Alfred Hitchcock in 1963
(doesn't that disembodied arm make it look like he's on his cell phone?)

Ginger Rogers fixes her hair on the beach, 1956.

Esther Williams throws autographs down to fans from a balcony in 1955

Easy Rider cast (Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson)
doing the Cannes Cannes in 1969

Arnold flexing, 1977