A Wisdom Archive on Brigitte Bardot

Bardot's beauty and natural sensuality began to show as a teenager and in 1952, she appeared on screen for the first time in Le Trou Normand. That same year, at age 18, she married director Roger Vadim, with whom she had been romantically involved for several years. Although the European film industry was then in the ascendant, her personal rise was remarkable: she has been one of the few European actresses to receive mass media attention in the United States. She and Marilyn Monroe were the icons of female sexuality in the 1950s and 1960s and whenever she made public appearances in the United State ...

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In 1974, just before her fortieth birthday, Bardot announced her retirement. After appearing in more than fifty motion pictures, and recording several music albums, most notably with France's "bad boy" of music, Serge Gainsbourg, she chose to use her fame to promote animal rights. She is accused of being a misanthrope and preferring the company of animals to that of humans. In 1986, she established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals. She raised 3 million French francs to fund the foundation by auctioning ...

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Animal love or Animal friendship is the affection and caring towards animals. Some animal lovers care for stray animals they find. Many animal lovers keep one or more pets, though an animal lover might object to being called a "pet owner". Though in English the word is used in a totally different way, the greek word zoophilia translates literally as "animal love" — and in Greek language it has the notion of animal friend ...

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Contempt, also known as Le Mépris in its original French, is a film released in 1963, directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It was based on Alberto Moravia's 1954 Italian-language novel Il disprezzo. American movie producer Jeremy Prokosch (played by Jack Palance) hires respected German director Fritz Lang (playing himself) to direct a film adaptation of Homer's Odyssey. Dissatisfied with Lang's treatment of the material as an art film, Prokosch hires Paul Javal (played by Michel Piccoli ...

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Today Marianne remains as attractive as ever. She even has grown younger. The official busts, after having had anonymous features, began taking on the features of famous women during the Fifth Republic: the first was Brigitte Bardot in 1970, with the design of the sculptor Alain Gourdon, aka Aslan, who reportedly did the job initially as a joke. She was followed by Mireille Mathieu (1978, Aslan again), Catherine Deneuve (1985), Inès de la Fressange, Sophie ...

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BB may stand for: Barbados (ISO 3166-1 and obsolete NATO 2-letter country code) Blackburn: BB is the United Kingdom post code for the region in northern England which is served by Blackburn postal sorting office. Boys' Brigade, an international non-denominational Christian youth organization Berlin Brigade, the headquarters of the U.S. Military Forces in Berlin, Germany until 1994 Baby in Chinglish Battleship (US Navy hull classification symbol) Broadband. BB ...

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Curd Jürgens (December 13, 1915 - June 18, 1982) was a German stage and motion-picture actor. Sometimes misspelt "Curt Jurgens" outside German-speaking Europe, he was born in Solln, Bavaria, Germany. He began his working career as a journalist before becoming an actor at the urging of his actress wife, Louise Basler. He spent much of his early acting career on the stage in Vienna. Critical of the Nazis in his native Germany, in 1944 he was shipped to a concentration camp for "political unreliables." Jürgens survived an ... Including:

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A bikini or two-piece is a type of women's bathing suit, characterized by two separate parts—one covering the breasts, the other the groin (and optionally the buttocks), leaving an uncovered area between the two garments. The shapes of both parts of a bikini closely resemble women's underwear, and the lower part of a bikini can therefore range from the more revealing thong or g-string to ... Including:

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The Citroën DS (also known as Déesse, or Goddess, after the punning initials in French) was an automobile produced by the French manufacturer Citroën between 1955 and 1975. The DS is well-known for its futuristic, aerodynamic body design, and for its innovative technology (including its hydropneumatic suspension system). Citroën DS - Model History. After 10 years of development in secret as the successor to the venerable Traction Avant, the DS 19 was introduced on October 5, ... Including:

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It took fifteen years for the bikini to be accepted in the United States. In 1951 bikinis were banned from the Miss World Contest. In 1957, however, Brigitte Bardot's bikini in And God Created Woman created a market for the swimwear in the US, and in 1960, Brian Hyland's pop song "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" inspired a bikini-buying spree. Finally the bikini caught on, and by 1963, the movie Beach Party, starring Annette Funicello (emphatically not in a bikini, by mentor Walt Disney's personal request) and Frankie Avalon, led a wave ...

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List of French people - A. Isabelle Adjani Renée Adorée Anouk Aimée Arletty Antonin Artaud Fanny Ardant Jeanne Aubert Jean-Pierre Aumont Claude Autant-Lara Daniel Auteuil Charles Aznavour List of French people - B-C. Brigitte Bardot Emmanuelle Béart Jean-Paul Belmondo Charles Berling Sarah Bernhardt Suzanne Bianchetti ...

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The fame of the Gulf of Saint-Tropez was established a long time ago: legend says that the name 'Saint Tropez' comes from St. Tropes, a martyr who refused to give up his faith. He was beheaded and his body was thrown into a boat, which drifted into what is now called the Golfe de Saint-Tropez, where he finally came ashore. In the 1920s Saint-Tropez attracted international stars from the world of fashion. During World War II, on August 15, 1944, it was the central site of a beach landing in Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of sou ...

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