Hollywood Remembers Brigitte Bardot

Labelled “France’s most ogled export” by Time magazine in 1956, Already a cover girl in her native France, Vadim promoted her as the ultimate sex kitten, a voluptuous child-like slave to love. Not just a pin-up, her mostly French-made films were seen all over the world, and her private life rocked the tabloids.

Seen as a capable actress after her work with Clouzot in La Verite (1960), she retired in the early 1970s.