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Lovely camera
Kirk Douglas is the man!
The sand still looks the same…
Showing her bellybutton! Gasp! Sigh, wasn’t she lovely…
all those belly lines would be photoshopped out today.
She was a beautiful woman, when women are too skinny they seem so empty and unhealthy.
Beautiful! Thin, but not anorexic…a “normal” woman, doing normal things….
In 1953, the French Riviera was most likely the only place in the world where a woman could get away with such beach wear. American celebs did not begin wearing bikinis until the 1960s.
Good thing she was born French, a culture that does not have a large breast fetish. Not enough curves for my taste.
She would have been 18 pushing 19 when these pictures were taken.
Those lines would be photoshopped out now but they were still airbrushed out then.
Women come in all shapes and sizes. The are not objects for you to categorize and grade. She’a a person. Act like it.
That last picture is amazing. (As was Brigitte herself.)
Brigitte Bardot is a stunning woman. Her pictures really are beautiful and depicted the life of a model and a superstar. I never knew her but I would like to not because of the pictures but because of her works in film. best business practice
Great figure, but she hadn’t really come into her full beauty yet. She looked better a bit older, perhaps because she always had a bit of a baby face. But here she looks like another pretty girl with a very good figure.
She was pretty here, but much more stunning later on
Golden years ,wow !
Too bad she’s such a racist, xenophobic bitch. Ugly on the inside, ugly on the outside.
To: Sharm, March 4, 2012 at 2:46 am
I don’t consider raising the alarm over the refusal of over 5-million, Muslim immigrants who make no attempt to adapt to the French culture by following the laws and customs of the country they have been graciously allowed to enter as being racist. I dare say that you would feel no different if an undesirable group of people “camped” on your doorstep pushing their backwards beliefs and customs into your neighborhood. But by your name, it may be assumed that you belong to that category of intruders.
A protector of animals and the Earth’s environment, Brigitte Bardot has been, and always will be, beautiful on the inside as well as the outside. She is well within her rights to express her opinions and, sad to say very likely, predictions.
Having had the luxury to live in Paris, France during my early twenties in the timeframe ’71 – ’73, I experienced a beautiful culture of people, architecture, and art. I still have French friends from those years. I hope to, one day, return for another visit before the French culture is turned upside down or destroyed.
//signed//
An American!
You’re an American and you can’t see why laws banning specific religious practices are a bad idea? How can you think the one in question is not racist, despite targeting Arabs disproportionately?
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Hmmm Dave I’m sorry but what you are saying is wrong. France has 10 million muslims, I don’t know what proportion of these 10 million is actually from abroad and what proportion was born in France but what I do know is that they are far from having refused French culture. The vast majority is totally integrated and goes to mosque like one could go to church and back to civil life. Of course like in any given country, immigration comes with problems like poverty, racism, a feeling of not being totally welcome and political cynicism concerning the issue. But there is certainly not an inside war against French culture fought by muslim invaders hahaha .. There is a salafist activity but it is the work of a few madmen. 99% of French muslims hate the salafists. And it is the racists who try and make them seem like they embrace a common cause. In fact most of my friends from north african origin are more concerned with republican values than any of my white friends. Of course they all are more or less middle class. The ones who make trouble are from the very poor parts of the population. Give a job and some kind of dignity and you have solved the problem for 90 % of them. I guess that’s my more personal point of view, but there you go… No, 5 million French muslims do not “refuse” French culture. That is just not true. Thanks
Signed : a Frenchman
Jean,
Thank you for your comment; glad I revisited.
You sound as being too casual about it all. For the sake of France and my great-great-grand-children, I hope you are correct.
//signed//
an American Francophile
Dave – an American (presumably of European origin) complaining about ‘intruders’ – people in glass houses Dave . . .
I love the shot of Kirk Douglas reaching above his head while Bardot looks, erm, on. Both were intoxicating beauties.
She is so young and looks so innocent here. She was like a child and yet all woman! She will never be replaced. Just ask Roger Vadim; he tried many times and never did get it right. Especially Jane Fonda! Really? Not even close! She will always be the most beautiful woman in the world. And I love her today as much as I did back when for who she is and will always be to me. A person with emotions and one who got hurt sometimes. I cried when she did for all those hurts. She is a beautiful person!
To Sharm: Jealousy is a terrible thing! She is not at all what you say she is! You can call me a racist bitch too if you want; but I don’t like the Muslims any more then she does! They have destroyed most of Europe and are doing it now to us in America. I would stand beside her on this!
To Dave: Thanks for coming to her defense Dave!
cannes looks warm and sunny.