Brigitte Bardot

Famed French Actress

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot born September 28 1934

A career in modeling at the age of 15 morphed into a film career in 1952 for Crazy for Love starring Javotte Lemoine. She appeared with Kirk Douglas in Act of Love in 1953, but primarily continued to work within the French, and to a lessor extent, the Italian film industry. She retired, age 39, in 1973.

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Universal Horrors: The Studio's Classic Films, 1931-1946, 2d ed.

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