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Written By: Ben Cosgrove
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Stunning photos of a young and dazzling Brigitte Bardot, 1950s-1960s
Brigitte Bardot was born in September 1934 in Paris and is a French actress, singer, and model. Famous for portraying sexually emancipated personae with hedonistic lifestyles, she was one of the best-known sex symbols of the late 1950s and 1960s.
Bardot was born to wealthy bourgeois parents, and at the age of 15, she posed for the cover of Elle (May 8, 1950), France’s leading women’s magazine.
Roger Vadim, an aspiring director, was impressed and shrewdly fashioned her public and screen image as an erotic child of nature—blond, sensuous, and amoral.
In two motion pictures directed by Vadim—Et Dieu créa la femme (1956; And God Created Woman) and Les Bijoutiers du claire de lune (1958; “The Jewelers of Moonlight”)—Bardot broke contemporary film taboos against nudity and set box office records in Europe and the United States.
During her early career, professional photographer Sam Lévin’s photos contributed to the image of Bardot’s sensuality.
One showed Bardot from behind, dressed in a white corset. British photographer Cornel Lucas made images of Bardot in the 1950s and 1960s that have become representative of her public persona.
Brigitte was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir’
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Brigitte Bardot's Life in Photos
1940: A Young Brigitte Bardot
Born into a wealthy and conservative Parisian family in 1934, Bardot was raised in the 16th arrondissement of the city.
1946: A Life in Dance
Bardot's mother encouraged her to take up dance and by the time she was 13, she was admitted to the prestigious Conservatoire de Paris to train under Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev.
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1950: A Modeling Career
When Bardot was 15 years old, she began to explore a career in modeling. She appeared on the cover of Elle in 1950 and again later in 1952, both of which brought perspective acting roles.
1952: Her First Film
Bardot appeared in her first feature film in 1952 as Javotte Lemoine in Le Trou Normand (English title: Crazy for Love). The film was a comedy, featuring French actor Andre Bourvil.
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1952: Getting Married
Bardot was working as a model when she met French director Roger Vadim. The two