Carlton Cannes Hotel

[1][2] The Carlton Hotel was constructed from 1909 to 1910 by Swiss hotelier Henry Ruhl,[3][4] and designed by architects Charles Dalmas and Marcellin Mayère.

[11] In April 2011, Morgan Stanley re-sold the portfolio of seven properties to Lebanese businessman Toufic Aboukhater[12] at a loss, for 450 million euros.

[11] In 2014, Katara Hospitality, owned by the government of Qatar,[13] purchased the Carlton, along with four other properties in the portfolio, in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Madrid and Rome.

[citation needed] The Carlton's elegant seventh floor formal dining room was named La Belle Otero in her honour.

The hotel was a central location for the Alfred Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief, starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant.

While staying at the Carlton during the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, Kelly had an arranged meeting and photo shoot with Prince Rainier III of Monaco; they married in 1956.

Exterior shots of the front of the hotel and the jetty leading out of the beach appear in Steps' 1999 music video for their single "Love's Got a Hold on My Heart".

On 11 August 1994, three men brandishing automatic weapons entered the jewelry store in the hotel and proceeded to open fire.