 Official poster of the 7th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Piva.[1] | |
| Opening film | Le Grand Jeu |
|---|---|
| Location | Cannes, France |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Awards | Grand Prize of the Festival (Gate of Hell)[2] |
| No. of films | 43 (In Competition)[3] 51 (Short Film) |
| Festival date | 25 March 1954 – 9 April 1954 |
| Website | festival-cannes |
The 7th Cannes Film Festival was held from 25 March to 9 April 1954. With Jean Cocteau as president of the jury, the Grand Prix went to the Gate of Hell by Teinosuke Kinugasa.[4] The festival opened with Le Grand Jeu by Robert Siodmak.[5] This was the last festival with a predominantly French jury.
As the festival was becoming more and more a pole of showbiz attraction, scandals and romances of stars were appearing in the press. In 1954, the Simone Silva affair during the Cannes Festival ended up in the destruction of her career as an actor and her premature death, three years later.[6]
- ^ "Posters 1954". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
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- ^ "1954 - Le Grand Jeu". "cannes-fest.com" (in French). Retrieved 7 July 2017.
- ^ "1952-1959: Celebrities, politics and the film world". fresques.ina.fr. Retrieved 3 June 2017.