French movie actress Brigitte Bardot, whose sexy 1950s and ’60s look defined beauty for generations of men and women and who later became a world-renowned animal rights activist, has died at …
French movie actress Brigitte Bardot, whose sexy 1950s and ’60s look defined beauty for generations of men and women and who later became a world-renowned animal rights activist, has died at age 91. Her foundation shared the news Sunday with an announcement on their website and a statement to French press.
It did not specify when she died or her cause of death. However, Bardot first came to fame when she was featured on the cover of Elle in 1950. She was 15. It was be the first of hundreds of times she graced the front of a fashion magazine. Movie director Roger Vadim discovered her through those pictures, and he and Bardot married in 1952, when she was around 18 years old. Bardot soon began appearing in movies, and starred in Vadim’s 1956 hit “…And God Created Woman,” a drama that featured her nude, cementing Bardot’s “sex kitten” image. A natural brunette — evident in early modeling shoots — Bardot’s signature hair color arrived on the scene when an Italian director asked her to appear as a blonde, a color she fell for and ultimately adopted as her own. French actress Brigitte Bardot poses with a huge sombrero she brought back from Mexico, as she arrives at Orly Airport in Paris, France, on May 27, 1965. AP Photo She and Vadim divorced in 1957. Bardot was married a second time to film producer, actor and artist Jacques Charrier from 1959 to 1962, and a third to German photographer and documentarian“Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that,” said,” in which she played a woman tried for killing her lover, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1961. Many of her films were fluff. She starred in 1964′s “Agent 38-24-36,” in which she played the girlfriend ofbumbling Russian spy in Cold War London.Bardot made around 40 movies before deciding in 1971 to pack it in, at age 39.French film actress Brigitte Bardot and her husband, German playboy Gunter Sachs pose just before boarding a chartered airplane on their honeymoon in Las Vegas on July 14, 1966. AP Photo/David F. Smithactivism and became a vegetarian. Her lobbying against seal hunting helped lead the European Union to ban the import of seal products.French actress Brigitte Bardot poses for photographers on a lawn in the garden of the Excelsior Hotel on the Lido of Venice, Italy, Sept. 2, 1958. AP Photo/Walter Attenni “I found it lovely to be told that I was beautiful or that I had a nice little ass,” Bardot said. “This kind of compliment is nice.” “But there are many actresses who tease with the producers in order to get a role,” she said. “Then … they come to tell that they were harassed … In reality, they profit from it rather more than it hurt them.”Dear Abby: Am I overreacting about the news my husband hid from me?Harriette Cole: I feel like I'm chasing him, and that is so embarrassingHarriette Cole: I keep replaying my embarrassing work-from-home blunderMiss Manners: Maybe I should pretend I forgot about her wedding?Dear Abby: Despite all my efforts, my rich and godly son remains unmarried
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