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  In its second year, the festival already had its first scandal: during a sequence of Estasi, by Czechoslovakian director Gustav Machatý,  Hedwig Kieslerová, later known as Hedy Lamarr, appears on the big screen fully nude.  From the third festival in 1935, it becomes an annual event, due to the …

  René Gruau has lived for most of his life between Paris and Cannes, which he came to love during the last World War when he moved to the Riviera following the fashion industry, and which he chose as his residence around 1985; however, Paris was his city, the one …

  Historically, the shared attraction of politician and celebrity can be reduced to a simple equation: celebrities looked to politicians to validate them as part of the company of serious men and women and politicians looked to celebrities to validate them as part of the company of the famous. Much …

  The second Venice Film Festival is held two years later, from the 1st to the 20th of August. Initially the festival was inextricably linked to the Venice Biennale, and had the same schedules. However, there is an important change after the first film festival: the second is a competitive …

    In the absence of a jury and the official awards ceremony – introduced later – a referendum inducted by the organizing committee, chaired by Attilio Fontana of the ICE (Istituto del Commercio Estero – Foreign Trade Institute), carried out between the public rushing to the review declared Best …