Word: bardots
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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France's Cinemacaroon Brigitte (And God Created Woman) Bardot, who won a 1957 Victoire (France's Oscar), proved the infinite ingenuity of the French in inventing new human relationships. She offered to be the godmother of a baby girl born to her ex-husband, Director Roger Vadim, and a Danish model one day after he and Brigitte were divorced...
Divorced. Brigitte ("BB") Bardot, 23, cinema's toothsome French pastry (And God Created Woman, Please! Mr. Balzac), and French film Writer-Producer Roger Vadim, 29; after three years of marriage; in a Paris court that found each "equally guilty of seriously insulting" the other...
According to the French, "BB"-short for Brigitte Bardot-is going to replace MM as a symbol of sex. Brown-haired Brigitte, 23, is slender but softly rounded. From the neck up, though, she looks about twelve years old, and bears a striking resemblance to Shirley Temple at that age. Her movies have smashed attendance records from Norway to the Middle East, and Hollywood has bid high for her services. So far. Brigitte has preferred Paris, where she gets about 30 million francs (more than $70,000) for every picture...
Last week, with La Bardot's most notorious film doing record business in Manhattan, and another set to open soon, U.S. moviegoers had a chance to see what all the European excitement is about. It adds up to a brouhaha in a bias...