Bardot pleaded with Gainsbourg not to release it, and although he protested that " The music is very pure.

Her father had an engineering degree and worked with his own father ( Charles Bardot ) in the family business.

Bardot was featured in many other films along with notable actors such as Alain Delon ( Famous Love Affairs ; Spirits of the Dead ); Jean Gabin ( In Case of Adversity ); Sean Connery ( Shalako ); Jean Marais ( Royal Affairs in Versailles ; School for Love ); Lino Ventura ( Rum Runners ); Annie Girardot ( The Novices ); Claudia Cardinale ( The Legend of Frenchie King ); Jeanne Moreau ( Viva Maria!

The version with Bardot was issued in 1986 and became a popular download hit in 2006 when Universal Records made its back catalogue available to purchase online, with this version of the song ranking as the third most popular download.

Bardot had an affair with her And God Created Woman co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant ( married at the time to actress Stéphane Audran ) before her divorce from Vadim.

After she and Charrier divorced in 1962, Nicolas was raised in the Charrier family and did not maintain close contact with Bardot until his adulthood.

Gilmore told Paris Match: " I felt a beautiful warmth with Bardot but found it difficult to discuss things in any depth whatsoever.

In the 1970s, Bardot lived with sculptor Miroslav Brozek and posed for some of his sculptures.

" 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 ".

The prosecutor stated that she was tired of charging Bardot with offences related to racial hatred.

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.

This was one of his traits as a filmmaker-showing off his budget-as he did with Brigitte Bardot in Le Mepris ( Contempt ).

In late-1967, he had a short but ardent love affair with Brigitte Bardot to whom he dedicated the song and album Initials BB.

Originally recorded with Brigitte Bardot, it was released with future girlfriend Birkin when Bardot backed out.

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.

After touring in the early 1950s in several theater productions, his first motion picture appearance came in 1955 and the following year he gained stardom with his performance opposite Brigitte Bardot in Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman.

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.

Her interpretation of Brigitte Bardot in the movie Gainsbourg ( Vie héroïque ) revealed the actress who received her first nomination at the César Award.

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

The band has covered songs by: Sylvie Vartan, Françoise Hardy, Brigitte Bardot, Brigitte Fontaine, Serge Gainsbourg, Johnny Hallyday, Velvet Underground, Nico, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Pizzicato Five, Hot Chocolate, Die Tödliche Doris, Nina Hagen, KC and the Sunshine Band and Marjo ( Corbeau ).

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.

In 1995, she recorded the Serge Gainsbourg / Brigitte Bardot song " Bonnie and Clyde " with Luna.

Gainsbourg asked her to sing an octave higher than Bardot, " so you'll sound like a little boy.

" There was media speculation, as with the Bardot version, that they had recorded live sex, to which Gainsbourg told Birkin, " Thank goodness it wasn't, otherwise I hope it would have been a long-playing record.

Bardot regretted not releasing her version, and her friend Jean-Louis Remilleux persuaded her to contact Gainsbourg.

The release of the French film Et Dieu … créa la femme ( And God Created Woman ) in November 1956 was a major event for the Riviera, making an international star of Brigitte Bardot, and making an international tourist destination of Saint-Tropez, particularly for the new class of wealthy international travellers called the ' jet set.

In November, Bardot released its second album Play It Like That, which achieved gold status upon release and performed before 90, 000 music lovers at the Rumba festivals.

Bardot was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for her role in Louis Malle's 1965 film Viva Maria !.

She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir's 1959 essay, The Lolita Syndrome, which described Bardot as a " locomotive of women's history " and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France.

During her career in show business, Bardot starred in 47 films, performed in numerous musical shows, and recorded 80 songs.

After her retirement, Bardot established herself as an animal rights activist.

( One of her classmates was Leslie Caron ; fellow ballerinas nicknamed Bardot: Bichette Doe ).

Although Bardot got the role, the film was cancelled, but it made her consider becoming an actress.

British photographer Cornel Lucas made iconic images of Bardot in the 1950s and 1960s that have become representative of her public persona.

In 1974, Bardot appeared in a nude photo shoot in Playboy magazine, which celebrated her 40th birthday.

In 1973, before her 39th birthday, Bardot announced her retirement.

On 25 May 2011 the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society renamed its fast interceptor vessel, MV Gojira, as MV Brigitte Bardot in appreciation of her support.

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.

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 13 August 2010, Bardot lashed out at director Kyle Newman regarding his plans to make a biographical film on her life.

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

Bardot is recognized for popularizing bikini swimwear in early films such as Manina ( Woman without a Veil, 1952 ), in her appearances at Cannes and in many photo shoots.

Bardot also brought into fashion the choucroute (" Sauerkraut ") hairstyle ( a sort of beehive hair style ) and gingham clothes after wearing a checkered pink dress, designed by Jacques Esterel, at her wedding to Charrier.

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.