" Bardot's book was also against miscegenation ; made attacks on modern art, which Bardot equated with " shit "; drew similarities between French politicians and weather vanes ; and compared her own beliefs with previous generations who had " given their lives to push out invaders ".

Bardot popularized this style which is especially used for knitted sweaters or jumpers although it is also used for other tops and dresses.

In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has also been credited with popularizing the city of St. Tropez and the town of Armação dos Búzios in Brazil, which she visited in 1964 with her boyfriend at the time, Brazilian musician Bob Zagury.

Bonnie and Clyde were also the subject of a popular 1967 French pop song performed by Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot.

Other familiar titles are: Anzio by Edward Dmytryk, in 1968, his last Hollywood film appearance ; The North Star ( 1943 ), directed by Lewis Milestone with a script by playwright Lillian Hellman, with Erich von Stroheim ; Edge of Darkness ( 1943 ), also by Milestone, his first film role, where he played his first film German soldier role, opposite Judith Anderson ; Wilson ( 1944 ), where he played the German ambassador to Washington, D. C. during World War I, Count von Bernstorff ; The Cross of Lorraine ( 1943 ), with Gene Kelly ; The Hitler Gang, playing the Nazi official Alfred Rosenberg and Romanoff and Juliet ( 1961 ), written, directed and starring Peter Ustinov, and an Italian-American adaptation of Homer's Iliad, Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), directed by Robert Wise, with Rossanna Podesta, Jacques Sernas, and in two featured roles, Tonio Selwart playing opposite a then almost unknown Brigitte Bardot, in 1956.

He also was a costume designer for 16 films, including the Brigitte Bardot vehicle And God Created Woman, and designed on-screen wardrobes for the actresses Vivien Leigh and Mae West.

Choucroute in French is also the name of a sort of beehive hair style with a slightly disorderly appearance, first sported by French actress Brigitte Bardot in the 1960s.

Tarzan Taborda was also a ballet dancer in Le Lido, Paris, and a stuntman, where he worked with Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, John Wayne and Robert Mitchum on various movies.

While working on No Commandments, the Dowlut brothers also wrote two tracks for Bardot ( 2000 ) the debut album by winner of reality TV contest Popstars, the pop group Bardot.

* November 28 – Roger Vadim's drama film And God Created Woman released in France as Et Dieu … créa la femme, propels Brigitte Bardot into the public spotlight as a " sex kitten ".

Though by no means her first film, it is widely recognized as the vehicle that launched Bardot into the public spotlight and immediately created her " sex kitten " persona, making her an overnight sensation.

The latter especially after it had been translated into French by Sacha Distel ( French singer and sometime boyfriend of Brigitte Bardot ).

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (; ; born 28 September 1934 ) is a former French fashion model, actress, singer and animal rights activist.

In fashion, the Bardot neckline ( a wide open neck that exposes both shoulders ) is named after her.

He wrote, " Bardot moves herself in a fashion that fully accentuates her charms.

It has been dubbed the ' playground to jetsetters, fashion models, and millionaires ', and it is most-enduringly known as the place where the iconic Brigitte Bardot was " discovered " and for its role in the liberation of southern France during World War II.

In her 1999 book Le Carré de Pluton (" Pluto's Square "), Bardot criticizes the procedure used in the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.

In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence (" A Scream in the Silence "), she warned of an “ Islamicization of France ”, and said of Muslim immigration: In May 2003 the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples ( MRAP ) announced they would sue Bardot for the comments.

The mix of eclectic samples – including pieces of Suicide's electro-punk classic " Girl " (" 3 Minute Classic "), Angelo Badalamenti's theme to cult TV show Twin Peaks (" Perfect Person "), and the Serge Gainsbourg / Brigitte Bardot duet " Bonnie And Clyde " (" Everywhere ")-- evokes the Dust Brothers ' work on the Beastie Boys ' Paul's Boutique according to XLR8R magazine.

") According to the liner notes of his first ( self-titled ) album, musician Bob Dylan dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot.

The video shows Kylie in a black dress with a Brigitte Bardot hairstyle singing the song.

Klarwein's own words illuminate the work: " I projected it as a sort of painted musical comedy movie with a Sanskrit swinging cast of thousands, starring Marilyn Monroe, Anita Ekberg, Ray Charles, Pablo Picasso, Brigitte Bardot, Roland Kirk, Cannonball Adderley, Ahmed Abdul Malik, Wonderwoman, Delacroix's Orphan Girl at the Cemetery, Litri and his bullshit fighters, Lawrence of Arabia, Socrates, Dalí, Rama, Vishnu, Ganesh, the Zork and a Milky Way of playmates.

Lennon's first wife Cynthia Powell lightened her hair color to more closely resemble Bardot, while George Harrison made comparisons between Bardot and his first wife Pattie Boyd, as Cynthia wrote later in A Twist of Lennon.

The social and commercial appeal of his later work ( such as a 1959 portrait of Brigitte Bardot with her hair tousled, in a little black dress ) did not match the artistic promise or the bohemian eroticism of his earlier years.

The most consistent element in their cut and paste compositions is a retro-hip European 1960s style, with references to psych and garage-rock as well as to 1960s French-pop in the vein of Françoise Hardy, Jacques Dutronc, France Gall, and Brigitte Bardot.

However, after original member Chantelle Barry was forced out of the group in controversial circumstances, Wood was selected to replace her as the fifth member of the band, now known as Bardot.

However, after a legal claim, Sea Shepherd have renamed the MV Gojira and the vessel is now known as MV Brigitte Bardot.

The dress had celebrity appeal, as a similar dress had been worn by Brigitte Bardot.

From the mid 1950s he was dressing the Parisian elite and designed the wardrobe of Brigitte Bardot for many of her movies.

Although the European film industry was then in its ascendancy, Bardot was one of the few European actresses to have the mass media's attention in the United States, an interest which she did not reciprocate by rarely, if ever, going to Hollywood.

Additionally, in a section in the book entitled, " Open Letter to My Lost France ", Bardot writes that " my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims ".

In her own defence, Bardot wrote in a letter to a French gay magazine: " Apart from my husband — who maybe will cross over one day as well — I am entirely surrounded by homos.

On 10 June 2004, Bardot was again convicted by a French court for " inciting racial hatred " and fined € 5, 000, the fourth such conviction and fine from a French court.

A statue by Christina Motta honours Brigitte Bardot in Armação dos Búzios.

Bardot was idolized by young John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Lennon and Bardot met in person once, in 1968 at the Mayfair Hotel, introduced by Beatles press agent Derek Taylor ; a nervous Lennon took LSD before arriving, and neither star impressed the other.

It was inspired by Brigitte Bardot and summers in St Tropez.

Bardot, Deneuve, Fonda: My Life With The Three Most Beautiful Women In The World ( 1986 ), published by Simon & Schuster ( ISBN 0671530070 / ISBN 9780671530075 )

" In Doctor at Sea I was cast again as the Plain Jane character ... my rival in love was played by ... Brigitte Bardot.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

* December 3 – Elvis Presley's ' 68 Comeback Special airs on NBC, followed by a Brigitte Bardot special.

They are rescued by Titan's slave girl Marina ( modelled on Brigitte Bardot ), a beautiful mute young woman who can breathe underwater.

* Contact, a song by Brigitte Bardot

And God Created Woman () ( 1956 ) is a French drama film directed by Roger Vadim and starring Brigitte Bardot.