US EditionBrigitte Bardot, French screen legend, dies aged 91
Bardot left a lasting impact as a film icon and animal advocate, with her foundation aiding over 12,000 animals across 70 countries, the organization said.
- French media reported that Brigitte Bardot, French actor and screen legend, has died aged 91 after being hospitalized last month; no funeral or memorial arrangements have been announced.
- Her film stardom began in 1956 with And God Created Woman, but Bardot quit cinema in 1973 and retired to Saint-Tropez, French Riviera, at age 39.
- Starring in 47 films, Bardot became a global cultural figure with box-office hits and her tousled blond hair, tiny waist and pout made her one of France's best-known stars.
- She founded the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in 1986 to protect animals and sold memorabilia to fund it, but Bardot faced five convictions in French courts for inciting racial hatred.
- Her image came to embody 1960s sexual freedom and social change, with And God Created Woman influencing New Wave directors Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut while her death removes a figure who shaped fashion, cinema and sexuality debates.
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The AgeScreen icon and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has died
Look back at the life of Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant and controversial animal rights activist.
Legendary Actress & Anti-Immigration Activist Brigitte Bardot Passes Away at Age 91
Legendary old-school movie star Brigitte Bardot has passed away at the age of 91. In the 1970s, the French actress became an icon for her talent, style, and beauty. But, after she left the film industry at age 39, Bardot went on leave her mark as an animal rights and anti-immigration activist. She became outspoken against the mass Islamic migration happening in her home country. Bardot was proud to be French and right-wing. Here are a few quotes…
Cinema legend Brigitte Bardot dies
Brigitte Bardot, the French screen legend whose barefoot mambo in the 1956 film 'And God Created Woman' helped redefine womanhood on screen and propelled her to global fame, has died at the age of 91, her foundation announced. The cause of death was not immediately known, but the news prompted tributes across France for a woman who embodied rebellious glamour, shifting social attitudes, and later an uncompromising defence of animal rights that c…
Brigitte Bardot died at the age of 91. Émilie Giaime, teacher of conferences in history, explains why the superstar embodied a model of "powerful woman" in the Corsican France of the Thirty Glorious. Before seeing her image damaged by her support for the far right and her racist statements.
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