Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot[1][2] (French: [bʁiʒit baʁˈdo]; born 28 September 1934) is a French actress, singer, dancer, and fashion model, who later became an animal rights activist. She was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s and was widely referred to by her initials, B.B.[3] Bardot was an aspiring ballerina in her early life. She started her acting career in 1952. She achieved international recognition in 1957 after starring in the controversial film And God Created Woman. Bardot caught the attention of French intellectuals. She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir's 1959 essay, The Lolita Syndrome, which described Bardot as a "locomotive of women's history" and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France.[4] She later starred in Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 film Le Mépris. For her role in Louis Malle's 1965 film Viva Maria! Bardot was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress. From 1969 to 1978, Bardot was the official face of Marianne (who had previously been anonymous) to represent the liberty of France.[5] Bardot retired from the entertainment industry in 1973. During her career in show business, she starred in 47 films, performed in several musical shows and recorded over 60 songs. She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985 but refused to accept it.[6] After her retirement, she established herself as an animal rights activist. During the 2000s, she generated controversy by criticizing immigration and Islam in France and has been fined five times for inciting racial hatred.[7][8]

Contents

1 Biography

1.1 Early life : 1934-1952 1.2 Career : 1952-1973

1.2.1 Stardom 1.2.2 The Truth 1.2.3 International films 1.2.4 Final films 1.2.5 Singing career

1.3 Animal welfare
Animal welfare activism : 1973-present

2 Personal life

2.1 La Madrague 2.2 Relationships 2.3 Health 2.4 Politics and legal issues

3 Influence in pop culture 4 Filmography 5 Discography 6 Books 7 References 8 Literature 9 External links

Biography[edit] Early life : 1934-1952[edit] Bardot was born a brunette[9] in Paris, the daughter of Louis Bardot (1896–1975) and Anne-Marie "Toty" Bardot (née Mucel; 1912–1978). Louis had an engineering degree and worked with his father, Charles Bardot, in the family business. Louis and Anne-Marie married in 1933. Bardot grew up in an upper middle-class Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic observant home.[10] When she was seven she was admitted to the Cours Hattemer, a private school. She went to school three days a week, and otherwise studied at home. This gave time for lessons at Madame Bourget's dance studio three days a week.[11] Brigitte's mother also enrolled Brigitte's younger sister, Marie-Jeanne (born 5 May 1938), in dance. Marie-Jeanne eventually gave up dancing lessons and did not tell her mother, whereas Brigitte concentrated on ballet. In 1947, Bardot was accepted to the Conservatoire de Paris. For three years she attended ballet classes by Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev. One of her classmates was Leslie Caron. The other ballerinas nicknamed Bardot "Bichette" ("Little Doe").[12] At the invitation of an acquaintance of her mother, she modelled in a fashion show in 1949. In the same year, she modelled for a fashion magazine "Jardin des Modes" managed by journalist Hélène Lazareff. Aged 15, she appeared on an 8 March 1950 cover of Elle[13] and was noticed by a young film director, Roger Vadim, while babysitting. He showed an issue of the magazine to director and screenwriter Marc Allégret, who offered Bardot the opportunity to audition for Les lauriers sont coupés. Although Bardot got the role, the film was cancelled but made her consider becoming an actress. Her relationship with Vadim, who attended the audition, influenced her further life and career.[14][15] Career : 1952-1973[edit]

Bardot on the set of Come dance with Me! in 1959.

Bardot debuted in a highly popular comedy film starring Bourvil, Le Trou Normand (1952) (English title: Crazy for Love). She played the lead in Manina, the Girl in the Bikini
Manina, the Girl in the Bikini (1953) from director Willy Rozier. She had a small role in The Long Teeth
The Long Teeth (1953), playing Vadim's wife, then had a leading role in a comedy starring Jean Richard, His Father's Portrait
His Father's Portrait (1953). Bardot had a small role in a Hollywood-financed film being shot in Paris, Act of Love (1953), starring Kirk Douglas. She received media attention when she attended the Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival in April 1953.[15] Bardot had a leading role in an Italian melodrama, Concert of Intrigue (1954) and in a French adventure film, Caroline and the Rebels
Caroline and the Rebels (1954). She had a good part as a flirtatious student in School for Love (1955), opposite Jean Marais
Jean Marais for director Marc Allegret. Bardot played her first sizeable English language role in Doctor at Sea (1955), as the love interest for Dirk Bogarde. The film was the third most popular movie at the British box office that year.[16] She had a small role in The Grand Maneuver
The Grand Maneuver (1955) for director Rene Clair, supporting Gerard Philippe
Gerard Philippe and Michelle Morgan. The part was bigger in The Light Across the Street
The Light Across the Street (1956) for director Georges Lacombe. She did another with Hollywood film, Helen of Troy, playing Helen's handmaiden. For the 1956 Italian movie Mio figlio Nerone Bardot was asked by the director to appear as a blonde. Rather than wear a wig to hide her naturally brunette hair she decided to dye her hair. She was so pleased with the results that she decided to retain the hair colour.[9] Stardom[edit]

Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot in a scene of A Very Private Affair, 1961.

Bardot then appeared in four movies that made her a star. First up was a musical, Naughty Girl (1956), where Bardot played a troublesome school girl. Directed by Michel Boisrond, it was co-written by Roger Vadim and was a big hit, the 12th most popular film of the year in France.[17] It was followed by a comedy, Plucking the Daisy
Plucking the Daisy (1956), written by Vadim with the director Marc Allegret, and another success at France. So too was the comedy The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful (1956) with Louis Jourdan. Finally there was the melodrama And God Created Woman (1956), Vadim's debut as director, with Bardot starring opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant and Curt Jurgens. The film, about an immoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was a huge success, not just in France but also around the world - it was among the ten most popular films in Britain in 1957.[18] It turned Bardot into an international star.[15] In 1958 the moniker "sex kitten" was invented for her.[19][20][21] 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. Bardot followed And God Created Woman with La Parisienne (1957), a comedy co-starring Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer for director Boisrond. She was reunited with Vadim in another melodrama The Night Heaven Fell
The Night Heaven Fell (1958) and played a criminal who seduced Jean Gabin
Jean Gabin in In Case of Adversity (1958). The latter was the 13th most seen movie of the year in France.[22] The Female (1959) for director Julien Duvivier was popular, but Babette Goes to War
Babette Goes to War (1959), a comedy set in World War Two, was a huge hit, the fourth biggest movie of the year in France.[23] Also widely seen was Come Dance with Me (1959) from Boisrond. The Truth[edit] Her next film was the courtroom drama The Truth (1960), from Henri-Georges Clouzot. It was a highly publicised production, which resulted in Bardot having an affair and attempting suicide. The film was Bardot's biggest ever commercial success in France, the third biggest hit of the year, and was nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar.[24] She made a comedy with Vadim, Please, Not Now!
Please, Not Now! (1961) and had a role in the all-star anthology, Famous Love Affairs
Famous Love Affairs (1962). Bardot was awarded a David di Donatello
David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign actress for her role in A Very Private Affair
A Very Private Affair (Vie privée, 1962), directed by Louis Malle. More popular in France was Love on a Pillow
Love on a Pillow (1962), another for Vadim. International films[edit] In the mid-1960s Bardot made films which seemed to be more aimed at the international market. In 1963, she starred in Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris, produced by Joseph E. Levine
Joseph E. Levine and starring Jack Palance. The following year she co-starred with Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins in the comedy Une ravissante idiote (1964). Bardot finally appeared in a Hollywood film in Dear Brigitte
Dear Brigitte (1965), a comedy starring James Stewart
James Stewart as an academic whose son develops a crush on Bardot. Bardot's appearance was relatively brief and the film was not a big hit. More successful was the Western buddy comedy Viva Maria!
Viva Maria! (1965) for director Louis Malle, appearing opposite Jeanne Moreau. It was a big hit in France and around the world although it did not break through in the US as much as was hoped.[25] After a cameo in Godard's, Masculin Féminin
Masculin Féminin (1966) she had her first flop in a long time, Two Weeks in September
Two Weeks in September (1968), a French-English co-production. She had a small role in the all-star Spirits of the Dead (1968), acting opposite Alain Delon, then tried a Hollywood film again: Shalako (1968), a Western starring Sean Connery, which was a box office disappointment.[26] Final films[edit]

Bardot in 1968

Les Femmes
Les Femmes (1969) was a flop, although the screwball comedy The Bear and the Doll (1970) performed slightly better. Her last few films were mostly comedies: Les Novices
Les Novices (1970), Boulevard du Rhum
Boulevard du Rhum (1971) (with Lino Ventura). The Legend of Frenchie King
The Legend of Frenchie King (1971) was more popular, helped by Bardot co-starring with Claudia Cardinale. She made one more with Vadim, Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman
Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973), playing the title role. Vadim said the film marked "Underneath what people call "the Bardot myth" was something interesting, even though she was never considered the most professional actress in the world. For years, since she has been growing older, and the Bardot myth has become just a souvenir... I was curious in her as a woman and I had to get to the end of something with her, to get out of her and express many things I felt were in her. Brigitte always gave the impression of sexual freedom - she is a completely open and free person, without any aggression. So I gave her the part of a man - that amused me.[27] "If Don Juan is not my last movie it will be my next to last," said Bardot during filming.[28] She kept her word and only made one more film, The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot (1973). Her career had traversed epochs where it was possible to say, "In the Sixties and early Seventies, there was no better known – or more scandalous – movie star on earth. — Not since the death of Valentino had a star aroused such insane devotion in their fans."[29] In 1973, Bardot announced she was retiring from acting as "a way to get out elegantly".[30] Singing career[edit] She participated in several musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, including "Harley Davidson"; "Je Me Donne À Qui Me Plaît"; "Bubble gum"; "Contact"; "Je Reviendrai Toujours Vers Toi"; "L'Appareil À Sous"; "La Madrague"; "On Déménage"; "Sidonie"; "Tu Veux, Ou Tu Veux Pas?"; "Le Soleil De Ma Vie" (the cover of Stevie Wonder's "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"); and the notorious "Je t'aime... moi non-plus". Bardot pleaded with Gainsbourg not to release this duet and he complied with her wishes; the following year, he rerecorded a version with British-born model and actress Jane Birkin
Jane Birkin that became a massive hit all over Europe. The version with Bardot was issued in 1986 and became a popular download hit in 2006 when Universal Music
Universal Music made its back catalogue available to purchase online, with this version of the song ranking as the third most popular download.[31] Animal welfare
Animal welfare activism : 1973-present[edit] In 1973, before her 39th birthday, Bardot announced her retirement. After appearing in more than forty motion pictures and recording several music albums, most notably with Serge Gainsbourg, she used her fame to promote animal rights. In 1986, she established the Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals.[32] She became a vegetarian[33] and raised three million francs to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewellery and personal belongings.[32] She is a strong animal rights activist and a major opponent of the consumption of horse meat. In support of animal protection, she condemned seal hunting in Canada during a visit to that country with Paul Watson
Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.[34] On 25 May 2011 the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society renamed its fast interceptor vessel, MV Gojira, as MV Brigitte Bardot
MV Brigitte Bardot in appreciation of her support.[35] She once had a neighbour's donkey castrated while looking after it, on the grounds of its "sexual harassment" of her own donkey and mare, for which she was taken to court by the donkey's owner in 1989.[36][37] Bardot wrote a 1999 letter to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, published in French magazine VSD, in which she accused the Chinese of "torturing bears and killing the world's last tigers and rhinos to make aphrodisiacs". She has donated more than $140,000 over two years for a mass sterilization and adoption program for Bucharest's stray dogs, estimated to number 300,000.[38] In August 2010, Bardot addressed a letter to the Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II of Denmark, appealing for the sovereign to halt the killing of dolphins in the Faroe Islands. In the letter, Bardot describes the activity as a "macabre spectacle" that "is a shame for Denmark and the Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands ... This is not a hunt but a mass slaughter ... an outmoded tradition that has no acceptable justification in today's world".[39] On 22 April 2011, French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand officially included bullfighting in the country's cultural heritage. Bardot wrote him a highly critical letter of protest.[40] From 2013 onwards the Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot Foundation in collaboration with Kagyupa International Monlam Trust of India has operated annual Veterinary Care Camp. She has committed to the cause of animal welfare in Bodhgaya year after year.[41] On 23 July 2015, Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot condemned Greg Hunt's plan to eradicate 2 million cats to save endangered species such as Warru and Night Parrot.[42] Personal life[edit] La Madrague[edit] In May 1958, Bardot withdrew to the seclusion of Southern France, where she had bought the house La Madrague in Saint-Tropez. Relationships[edit]

Bardot and Sami Frey
Sami Frey in St. Tropez, 1963

On 21 December 1952, aged 18, Bardot married director Roger Vadim. They divorced in 1957, after less than five years of marriage; they had no children together, but remained in touch, and even collaborated on later projects. The stated reason for the divorce was Bardot's affair with two other men. While married to Vadim, Bardot had an affair with Jean-Louis Trintignant, who was her co-star in And God Created Woman. Trintignant was also a married man, being at the time married to actress Stéphane Audran.[14][15] The two lived together for about two years, spanning the period before and after Bardot's divorce from Vadim, but they never married. Their relationship was complicated by Trintignant's frequent absence due to military service and Bardot's affair with musician Gilbert Bécaud.[14] In early 1958, after her divorce from Vadim, it was followed in quick order by her break-up with Trintignant and Bardot suffered a reported nervous breakdown in Italy, according to newspaper reports. A suicide attempt with sleeping pills two days earlier was also noted, but was denied by her public relations manager.[43] She recovered within weeks and then began an affair with the actor Jacques Charrier. She became pregnant well before they were married on 18 June 1959. Bardot's only child, her son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, was born on 11 January 1960. After she and Charrier divorced in 1962, Nicolas was raised in the Charrier family and had little contact with his biological mother until his adulthood.[14] Bardot's third marriage was to German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs, and it lasted from 14 July 1966 to 1 October 1969.[14][15] In 1968, she began dating Patrick Gilles, who went on to costar with her in The Bear and the Doll
The Bear and the Doll (1970); but she ended their relationship in the spring of 1971.[44] Over the next few years, Bardot dated in succession the bartender/ski instructor Christian Kalt; club owner Luigi Rizzi; musician (later producer) Bob Zagury; singer Serge Gainsbourg; writer John Gilmore; actor Warren Beatty, and Laurent Vergez, who was her co-star in Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman.[44][45] The longest of these casual relationships was with sculptor Miroslav Brozek. She lived with him from 1975 to December 1979,[46] posed for some of his sculptures. After breaking up with Brozek, she was involved in a long-term relationship with French TV producer Allain Bougrain-duBourg.[46] Bardot's fourth and current husband is Bernard d'Ormale, a former adviser of Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the far right party Front National; they were married on 16 August 1992.[47] Health[edit] In 1974, Bardot appeared in a nude photo shoot in Playboy
Playboy magazine, which celebrated her 40th birthday. On 28 September 1983, her 49th birthday, Bardot took an overdose of sleeping pills or tranquilizers with red wine. She had to be rushed to hospital, where her life was saved after a stomach pump was used to evacuate the pills from her body.[46] Bardot is also a breast cancer survivor.[48][49] Politics and legal issues[edit] Bardot expressed support for President Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s.[14][50] Her husband Bernard d'Ormale is a former adviser of the Front National, the main far right party in France, known for its nationalist and conservative beliefs.[4][15][50] In her 1999 book Le Carré de Pluton ("Pluto's Square"), Bardot criticizes the procedure used in the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. Additionally, in a section in the book entitled, "Open Letter to My Lost France", Bardot writes that "my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims". For this comment, a French court fined her 30,000 francs in June 2000. She had been fined in 1997 for the original publication of this open letter in Le Figaro and again in 1998 for making similar remarks.[51][52][53]

Bardot in Nice, 2002.

In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence ("A Scream in the Silence"), she warned of an " Islamicization
Islamicization of France", and said of Muslim immigration:

Over the last twenty years, we have given in to a subterranean, dangerous, and uncontrolled infiltration, which not only resists adjusting to our laws and customs but which will, as the years pass, attempt to impose its own.[54]

In the book, she contrasted her close gay friends with today's homosexuals, who "jiggle their bottoms, put their little fingers in the air and with their little castrato voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through" and that some contemporary homosexuals behave like "fairground freaks".[55] In her own defence, Bardot wrote in a letter to a French gay magazine: "Apart from my husband — who maybe will cross over one day as well — I am entirely surrounded by homos. For years, they have been my support, my friends, my adopted children, my confidants."[56] In her book she wrote about issues such as racial mixing, immigration, the role of women in politics and Islam. The book also contained a section attacking what she called the mixing of genes and praised previous generations who, she said, had given their lives to push out invaders.[57] On 10 June 2004, Bardot was convicted for a fourth time by a French court for inciting racial hatred and fined €5,000.[58] Bardot denied the racial hatred charge and apologized in court, saying: "I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody. It is not in my character."[59] In 2008, Bardot was convicted of inciting racial/religious hatred in relation to a letter she wrote, a copy of which she sent to Nicolas Sarkozy when he was Interior Minister of France. The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without anesthetizing them first. She also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was "fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits". The trial[60] concluded on 3 June 2008, with a conviction and fine of €15,000, the largest of her fines to date. The prosecutor stated that she was tired of charging Bardot with offences related to racial hatred.[7] During the 2008 United States presidential election, she branded the Republican Party vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin as "stupid" and a "disgrace to women". She criticized the former governor of Alaska for her stance on global warming and gun control. She was also offended by Palin's support for Arctic oil exploration and for her lack of consideration in protecting polar bears.[61] On 13 August 2010, Bardot lashed out at director Kyle Newman
Kyle Newman regarding his plan to make a biographical film on her life. She told him, "Wait until I'm dead before you make a movie about my life!" otherwise "sparks will fly".[62] Influence in pop culture[edit]

Statue of Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot in Búzios, Brazil

In fashion, the Bardot neckline (a wide open neck that exposes both shoulders) is named after her. Bardot popularized this style which is especially used for knitted sweaters or jumpers although it is also used for other tops and dresses. Bardot popularized the bikini in her early films such as Manina (1952) (released in France as Manina, la fille sans voiles). The following year she was also photographed in a bikini on every beach in the south of France during the Cannes Film Festival.[63] She gained additional attention when she filmed ...And God Created Woman (1956) with Jean-Louis Trintignant
Jean-Louis Trintignant (released in France as Et Dieu Créa La Femme). Bardot portrayed an immoral teenager cavorting in a bikini who seduces men in a respectable small-town setting. The film was an international success.[15] The bikini was in the 1950s relatively well accepted in France but was still considered risqué in the United States. As late as 1959, Anne Cole, one of the United States' largest swimsuit designers, said, "It's nothing more than a G-string. It's at the razor's edge of decency."[64] She also brought into fashion the choucroute ("Sauerkraut") hairstyle (a sort of beehive hair style) and gingham clothes after wearing a checkered pink dress, designed by Jacques Esterel, at her wedding to Charrier.[65] She was the subject for an Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol painting.

Bardot's fashion in 1961.

The Bardot pose describes an iconic modeling portrait shot around 1960 where Bardot is dressed only in a pair of black pantyhose, cross-legged over her front and cross-armed over her breasts. This pose has been emulated numerous times by models and celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan, Elle Macpherson
Elle Macpherson and Monica Bellucci.[66] In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has been credited with popularizing the city of St. Tropez
St. Tropez and the town of Armação dos Búzios
Armação dos Búzios in Brazil, which she visited in 1964 with her boyfriend at the time, Brazilian musician Bob Zagury. The place where she stayed in Búzios is today a small hotel, Pousada do Sol, and also a French restaurant, Cigalon.[67] The town hosts a Bardot statue by Christina Motta.[68] Bardot was idolized by the young John Lennon
John Lennon and Paul McCartney.[69][70] They made plans to shoot a film featuring The Beatles and Bardot, similar to A Hard Day's Night, but the plans were never fulfilled.[15] Lennon's first wife Cynthia Powell
Cynthia Powell lightened her hair color to more closely resemble Bardot, while George Harrison
George Harrison made comparisons between Bardot and his first wife Pattie Boyd, as Cynthia wrote later in A Twist of Lennon. Lennon and Bardot met in person once, in 1968 at the Mayfair Hotel, introduced by Beatles press agent Derek Taylor; a nervous Lennon took LSD before arriving, and neither star impressed the other. (Lennon recalled in a memoir, "I was on acid, and she was on her way out.")[71] According to the liner notes of his first (self-titled) album, musician Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot. He also mentioned her by name in "I Shall Be Free", which appeared on his second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. The first-ever official exhibition spotlighting Bardot's influence and legacy opened in Boulogne-Billancourt
Boulogne-Billancourt on 29 September 2009 – a day after her 75th birthday.[72] The Australian pop group Bardot was named after her. Filmography[edit] Main article: Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot filmography Discography[edit] Bardot released several albums and singles during the 1960s and 1970s[73]

"Sidonie" (1961, Barclay), lyrics by Charles Cros, music by Jean-Max Rivière and Yanis Spanos, guitar by Brigitte – first song, from the film Vie privée Brigitte Bardot Sings (1963, Philips) – collaborations by Serge Gainsbourg ("L'Appareil à sous", "Je me donne à qui me plaît"), Jean-Max Rivière as writer ("La Madrague") and singer ("Tiens ! C'est toi!"), Claude Bolling and Gérard Bourgeois B.B. (1964, Philips) with Claude Bolling, Alain Goraguer, Gérard Bourgeois "Ah ! Les p'tites femmes de Paris", duet with Jeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreau in Viva Maria (1965, Philips), directed by Georges Delerue Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot Show 67 (1967, Mercury) with Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg (writes "Harley Davidson", "Comic Strip", "Contact" and "Bonnie and Clyde"), Sacha Distel, Manitas de Plata, Claude Brasseur
Claude Brasseur and David Bailey "Je t'aime... moi non plus", duet with Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg (1967, published by Philips in 1986) Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot Show (1968, Mercury), themes by Francis Lai [Burlington Cameo Brings You] Special
Special Bardot (1968. RCA) with "The Good Life" by Sacha Distel
Sacha Distel and "Comic Strip (with Gainsbourg) in English Single Duet with Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg "Bonnie and Clyde" (Fontana) "La Fille de paille"/"Je voudrais perdre la mémoire" (1969, Philips), collaboration with Gérard Lenorman Tu veux ou tu veux pas (1970, Barclay) with the hit "Tu veux ou tu veux pas" (the French version of the Brazilian "Nem Vem Que Não Tem"), directed by François Bernheim; "John and Michael", hymn to the collective love; "Mon léopard et moi", a collaboration with Darry Cowl, and "Depuis que tu m'as quitté" "Nue au soleil"/"C'est une bossa nova" (1970, Barclay) "Chacun son homme", duet with Annie Girardot
Annie Girardot in Les Novices
Les Novices (1970, Barclay) "Boulevard du rhum" and "Plaisir d'amour", duet with Guy Marchand, in Boulevard du rhum (1971, Barclay) "Vous ma lady", duet with Laurent Vergez, and "Tu es venu mon amour" (1973, Barclay) "Le Soleil de ma vie", duet with Sacha Distel "Toutes les bêtes sont à aimer" (1982, Polydor)

Books[edit] Bardot has also written five books:

Noonoah: Le petit phoque blanc (Grasset, 1978) Initales B.B. (autobiography, Grasset & Fasquelle, 1996) Le Carré de Pluton (Grasset & Fasquelle, 1999) Un Cri Dans Le Silence (Editions Du Rocher, 2003) Pourquoi? (Editions Du Rocher, 2006)

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Brigitte Tast, Hans-Jürgen Tast (Hrsg.) Brigitte Bardot. Filme 1953–1961. Anfänge des Mythos B.B. (Hildesheim 1982) ISBN 3-88842-109-8. Servat, Henry-Jean (2016). Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot - My Life in Fashion (Hardback)format= requires url= (help). Paris: Flammation S.A. ISBN 978-2--08-0202697. Singer, Barnett Brigitte Bardot: A Biography (McFarland & Company, 2006) ISBN 0-7864-2515-6, ISBN 978-0-7864-2515-0

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