![]() She has Vivien Leigh’s neck, Simone Signoret’s mouth, Veronica Lake’s hair, Marilyn Monroe’s walk, and my best wishes for a less tediously vulgar picture next time.’ But if the public is always right, Miss Bardot was the only raison d’être for the film and its huge success, and she became an international and controversial sensation. ![]() ![]() As British movie critic Paul Dehn (also Oscar-winning screenwriter whose screen credits include “Goldfinger”, “The Taming of the Shrew”, and “Murder on the Orient Express” ), summed it up at the time in London’s daily newspaper News Chronicle: ‘For those with some eyes, Mademoiselle Bardot is quite a sight. Her provocative wriggle of her hips, her mouth, her hips, they all pushed the film to the limits of an X certificate and caused quite a controversy. “And God Created Woman” (1956), the film which launched her career internationally and also created Bardot the myth, marked her first collaboration with Parisian filmmaker and screenwriter Roger Vadim (1928-2000, also her first husband) and Antwerp-born producer-screenwriter Raoul J. ![]() But the impact she had and still has on society, even up until today, can’t be ignored. She became a sex symbol, adored by many, questioned by others. Her bright optimism, her broad smile, her endless energy and her frivolous spontaneity, her lust for life and her urge for freedom, along with her ravenous sensuality and great style, and feeling no restraints, made her a worldwide phenomenon. Yet, as a many-faceted and eternal screen icon of her time whose screen career only covered two decades, Miss Bardot-wherever she went and whatever she did-was permanently in the spotlights as, among others, an actress, a singer, a fashion trendsetter, a fashion model, and a role model which would define modern women in the 1960s. ![]() 1934) has not been involved in motion pictures ever since her retirement from the screen in 1973. One of the most famous stars ever to grace the screen, former French actress and superstar Brigitte Bardot (b. ![]()
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