Cannes and the Carlton, the luxury hotel for film festival artists
This prestigious hotel welcomes famous actors and actresses, hosts jury members and houses rooms named after film icons.
Alfred Hitchcock shot "La Main au Collet" here in 1955. The InterContinental Carlton Cannes is intimately linked to the cinema and vibrates to the rhythm of the Cannes Film Festival: it's the hotel of the starsElizabeth Taylor stayed here under 7 different names. Actresses have demanded their wildest fantasies here. The Carlon and the stars have shared a love affair since the hotel opened in the early 1910s.
Many suites were named after film icons Grace Kelly, of course, Sophia Loren, Uma Thurman, Sean Penn, Alain Delon, Sean Connery, Sharon Stone... Stars for prestige suites as dazzling as the careers of those who gave their names to these exceptional rooms.
Many passers-by wait outside the doors of the palace to catch a glimpse of one of their favorite movie stars on this famous avenue of the Croisette.
