US EditionBrigitte Bardot, French screen legend, dies aged 91
Brigitte Bardot retired from film in 1973 to focus on animal rights, founding a protection foundation in 1986 and campaigning on behalf of many species.
- 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.
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, 91, ‘personified France’
Brigitte Bardot, the French actress and international sex symbol who later renounced movies and embraced animal rights activism and far-right views, has died at 91. Bardot’s sultry 1956 breakthrough in made her one of the world’s most desirable women. Simone de Beauvoir hailed her in 1959 as the face of a changing France. Bardot “personified France in a literal way,” The New York Times wrote: She was the first official face for Marianne, the sym…
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.
The icon of French cinema Brigitte Bardot, with a worldwide reputation, died this Sunday, 28 December. Over the hours, the tributes of the actors and directors followed to greet an actress who "marked our time". A "total myth", which embodied "France", according to several great voices of the 7th Art. - "The most beautiful of diamonds": the tribute of the world of cinema to Brigitte Bardot (Culture, media and entertainment).
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