Cannes Film Festival
Jun 19 2008, AP

Classic French filmmaker Jean Delannoy, who adapted novels by Victor Hugo and Andre Gide and won the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize in 1946, has died at age 100, officials said Thursday.Delannoy died Wednesday at his home in Guainville, southwest of...

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