Brigitte Bardot in Doctor at Sea (1955)
Dutch postcard printed by Gebr. Spanjersberg N.V. Rotterdam. Brigitte Bardot in Doctor at Sea (Ralph Thomas, 1955).
Brigitte Bardot (1934) was the sex kitten of the European cinema. BB was 18 when she debuted in the comedy Le Trou Normand (1952, Jean Boyer). In the same year she married Roger Vadim. From 1952 to 1956 she appeared in seventeen films. In April 1953 she attended the Cannes Film Festival where she received massive media attention. She was every man's idea of the girl he'd like to meet in Paris. Her films of the early and mid 1950's were generally lightweight romantic dramas in which she was cast as ingénue or siren, often with an element of undress. Roger Vadim was not content with this light fare. He felt Bardot was being undersold. Looking for something more like an art film to push her as a serious actress, he showcased her in Et Dieu créa la femme (1956, Roger Vadim). This film, about an immoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was a big international success. It is often (wrongly) described as her first film (it was her eighteenth) and that it launched her to overnight stardom, but it did help move her towards the cinematic mainstream.
Source: Wikipedia.
Brigitte Bardot in Doctor at Sea (1955)
Dutch postcard printed by Gebr. Spanjersberg N.V. Rotterdam. Brigitte Bardot in Doctor at Sea (Ralph Thomas, 1955).
Brigitte Bardot (1934) was the sex kitten of the European cinema. BB was 18 when she debuted in the comedy Le Trou Normand (1952, Jean Boyer). In the same year she married Roger Vadim. From 1952 to 1956 she appeared in seventeen films. In April 1953 she attended the Cannes Film Festival where she received massive media attention. She was every man's idea of the girl he'd like to meet in Paris. Her films of the early and mid 1950's were generally lightweight romantic dramas in which she was cast as ingénue or siren, often with an element of undress. Roger Vadim was not content with this light fare. He felt Bardot was being undersold. Looking for something more like an art film to push her as a serious actress, he showcased her in Et Dieu créa la femme (1956, Roger Vadim). This film, about an immoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was a big international success. It is often (wrongly) described as her first film (it was her eighteenth) and that it launched her to overnight stardom, but it did help move her towards the cinematic mainstream.
Source: Wikipedia.