Like an elegant grand dame, the InterContinental Carlton Cannes Hotel has seen it all: kings, queens, a President Obama, in 2011. But it's during the Cannes Film Festival that the 343-room hotel, marking its 100th birthday this year, is at its starriest.
meeting of the League of Nations in 1922 and of the world's G20 leaders, including
Surveying the crowded lobby in 1972 -- as starlets competed for attention and producers tried to nail down deals -- director John Huston told The Hollywood Reporter, "If you stand there long enough, you can see anyone who matters in the movie business walk by." And the hotel forever will be linked to Princess Grace of Monaco. It was there that she filmed Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief in 1954, then met her future husband Prince Rainier the following year.
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