The last time the Cannes Film Festival got called off, it wasn't a virus that did it. It was a revolution. Fears over the spread of the coronavirus, and the respiratory illness it causes, COVID-19, led organizers on Thursday to postpone this year's Cannes International Film Festival.
Organizers, who had originally scheduled the fest to run May 12-23, are now hoping to hold the event in late June. But this is not the first time Cannes got canned.
Fifty-two years ago, the festival was called off halfway through. The fest started as planned on May 10, 1968, with a restored version of Gone With the Wind.
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