Brigitte Bardot (French pronunciation: bʁiʒit baʁdo) (born 28 September 1934) is a French actress, former fashion model, singer and animal welfare/rights activist.
She participated in various musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, including "Harley Davidson", "Je Me Donne A Qui Me Plait", "Bubble gum", "Contact", "Je Reviendrais Toujours Vers Toi" Read Full BioBrigitte Bardot (French pronunciation: bʁiʒit baʁdo) (born 28 September 1934) is a French actress, former fashion model, singer and animal welfare/rights activist.
She participated in various musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, including "Harley Davidson", "Je Me Donne A Qui Me Plait", "Bubble gum", "Contact", "Je Reviendrais Toujours Vers Toi", "L'Appareil A Sous", "La Madrague", "On Demenage", "Sidonie", "Tu Veux, Ou Tu Veux Pas?", "Le Soleil De Ma Vie" (the cover of Stevie Wonder's "You Are the Sunshine of My Life") and notorious "Je t'aime… moi non plus".
In 1952, she appeared on screen for the first time in Le Trou Normand. That same year, at age 18, she married director Roger Vadim, with whom she had been romantically involved for several years.
Although the European film industry was then in the ascendant, her personal rise was remarkable: she has been one of the few European actresses to receive mass media attention in the United States. She and Marilyn Monroe were the icons of female sexuality in the 1950s and 1960s and whenever she made public appearances in the United States the media hordes covered her every move.
Her films of the early and mid 1950s were lightweight romantic dramas, some of them historical, in which she was cast as ingénue or siren, often with an element of undress. She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea (1955), Helen of Troy (1954), in which she was understudy for the title-role but only appears as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love (1954) with Kirk Douglas. Her French-language films were dubbed for international release. "She is every man's idea of the girl he'd like to meet in Paris" said the film-critic Ivon Addams in 1955.
Vadim was not content with this light fare. The New Wave of French and Italian art directors and their stars were riding high internationally and he felt Bardot was being undersold. Looking for something more like an art-film to push her as a serious actress, he showcased her in And God Created Woman (1956) with Jean-Louis Trintignant.
The film, about an amoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was a big international success. She may have had an affair with her co-star Trintignant, but this was more likely a pre-release publicity gimmick. The film is often wrongly described as her first film (it was her seventeenth) and to have launched her overnight, but it did help move her towards the cinematic mainstream.
It also ruled out a transition to Hollywood, where she was thought too risqué to handle. The Doris Day era was in still in full swing and even Jane Russell in The French Line (1953) had been thought to be going too far by showing her midriff. Erotica like Bardot's Cette sacrée gamine (That Crazy Kid, 1955) was considered fine at the box-office as long as it was clearly labelled "European". Bardot's limited English and strong accent, while beguiling to the ears of men, did not suit rapid-fire Hollywood scripts. In any event, staying in Europe benefited her image when the 1960s began to swing and Hollywood slipped into the background for a while, and Bardot was voted honorary sex-goddess of the decade.
Divorced from Vadim in 1957, she married actor Jacques Charrier (1959-62), by whom in 1960 she had her only child, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier from whom she is estranged. She once referred to her only child as "a tumour". The marriage was preyed on by the paparazzi and there were clashes over the direction of Bardot's career. Her films became more substantial, but this brought a heavy pressure of dual celebrity as she sought critical acclaim while remaining to most of the world a glamour model.
Vie privée (1960), directed by Louis Malle has more than an element of autobiography in it. The scene in which, returning to her flat, Bardot's character is harangued in the lift by a middle-aged cleaning-lady calling her a tramp and a tart was based on an actual incident, and is a resonant image of celebrity in the mid-20th century.
Soon after, Bardot withdrew to the seclusion of Southern France and is now known to have attempted suicide, but as the sexual revolution of the early 1960s gathered momentum her lifestyle began to seem more like the norm and the pressure lifted. Through the sixties, she was happy to appear in glossy star-vehicles like Viva Maria (1969), to dabble in pop music and to play the role of glamour model and icon. In 1965 she appeared as herself in the Hollywood production Dear Brigitte starring Jimmy Stewart.
Her other husbands were German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs (1966-69), and French right-wing politician, Bernard d'Ormale (1992-present). She has also had reputed relationships with many men including singers Serge Gainsbourg and Sacha Distel. In the late 1950s, she shared an exchange she considered “croiser de deux sillages” with writer John Gilmore, then an actor in France for a New Wave film to have starred Jean Seberg. Gilmore told Paris Match, “I felt a beautiful warmth with Bardot but found it difficult to discuss things to any depth whatsoever”.
She is recognised for popularising bikini swimwear in early films such as Manina (Woman without a Veil, 1952) and in her appearances at Cannes and in many photo shoots. She even sported an early version of the monokini from time to time. Though this was not considered extraordinary in France, it was considered nearly scandalous in the US. The fashions of the 1960s looked effortlessly right and spontaneous on her and she joined Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy, in becoming a subject for Andy Warhol paintings.
In 1970, the sculptor Alain Gourdon used Bardot as the model for a bust of Marianne, the French national emblem.
Mentions of Bardot in music
The first song to reference Brigitte Bardot was "Gimme' that Wine" by vocalese group Lambert, Hendricks and Ross on the Columbia label in 1960.
Indie singer Jordan Galland also has a song called "Brigitte Bardot". In 1966, Harry Belafonte recorded "Zombie Jamboree" which has an entire verse dedicated to Brigitte Bargot.
Bardot has also been referenced in many other songs, including "I Shall Be Free" (Bob Dylan), "We Didn't Start the Fire" (Billy Joel), "Message of Love" (The Pretenders), "I Think I'm Going To Kill Myself" (Elton John), "Warlocks" (Red Hot Chili Peppers), "You Went The Wrong Way, Old King Louie" (Allan Sherman), "You're My Favourite Star" (The Bellamy Brothers), "It's Not Enough" (The Who), "Contempt" (Silkworm), "Big Wedge" (Fish),"Brigitte Bardot" (Tom Zé), "Alegria, Alegria" (Caetano Veloso), "Loaded" (ZZ Top), "Brigitte Bardot" (Creature), "Bardot" (Marden Hill), "Shir Nevu'i Cosmi Aliz" (Yoni Rechter & Eli Mohar), "Smiles Like Richard Nixon" (The Bad Examples), "Bijou" (Stew), "Stratford-On-Guy" (Liz Phair), and "Brigitte Bardot T.N.T." (Pizzicato Five).
She participated in various musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, including "Harley Davidson", "Je Me Donne A Qui Me Plait", "Bubble gum", "Contact", "Je Reviendrais Toujours Vers Toi" Read Full BioBrigitte Bardot (French pronunciation: bʁiʒit baʁdo) (born 28 September 1934) is a French actress, former fashion model, singer and animal welfare/rights activist.
She participated in various musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, including "Harley Davidson", "Je Me Donne A Qui Me Plait", "Bubble gum", "Contact", "Je Reviendrais Toujours Vers Toi", "L'Appareil A Sous", "La Madrague", "On Demenage", "Sidonie", "Tu Veux, Ou Tu Veux Pas?", "Le Soleil De Ma Vie" (the cover of Stevie Wonder's "You Are the Sunshine of My Life") and notorious "Je t'aime… moi non plus".
In 1952, she appeared on screen for the first time in Le Trou Normand. That same year, at age 18, she married director Roger Vadim, with whom she had been romantically involved for several years.
Although the European film industry was then in the ascendant, her personal rise was remarkable: she has been one of the few European actresses to receive mass media attention in the United States. She and Marilyn Monroe were the icons of female sexuality in the 1950s and 1960s and whenever she made public appearances in the United States the media hordes covered her every move.
Her films of the early and mid 1950s were lightweight romantic dramas, some of them historical, in which she was cast as ingénue or siren, often with an element of undress. She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea (1955), Helen of Troy (1954), in which she was understudy for the title-role but only appears as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love (1954) with Kirk Douglas. Her French-language films were dubbed for international release. "She is every man's idea of the girl he'd like to meet in Paris" said the film-critic Ivon Addams in 1955.
Vadim was not content with this light fare. The New Wave of French and Italian art directors and their stars were riding high internationally and he felt Bardot was being undersold. Looking for something more like an art-film to push her as a serious actress, he showcased her in And God Created Woman (1956) with Jean-Louis Trintignant.
The film, about an amoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was a big international success. She may have had an affair with her co-star Trintignant, but this was more likely a pre-release publicity gimmick. The film is often wrongly described as her first film (it was her seventeenth) and to have launched her overnight, but it did help move her towards the cinematic mainstream.
It also ruled out a transition to Hollywood, where she was thought too risqué to handle. The Doris Day era was in still in full swing and even Jane Russell in The French Line (1953) had been thought to be going too far by showing her midriff. Erotica like Bardot's Cette sacrée gamine (That Crazy Kid, 1955) was considered fine at the box-office as long as it was clearly labelled "European". Bardot's limited English and strong accent, while beguiling to the ears of men, did not suit rapid-fire Hollywood scripts. In any event, staying in Europe benefited her image when the 1960s began to swing and Hollywood slipped into the background for a while, and Bardot was voted honorary sex-goddess of the decade.
Divorced from Vadim in 1957, she married actor Jacques Charrier (1959-62), by whom in 1960 she had her only child, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier from whom she is estranged. She once referred to her only child as "a tumour". The marriage was preyed on by the paparazzi and there were clashes over the direction of Bardot's career. Her films became more substantial, but this brought a heavy pressure of dual celebrity as she sought critical acclaim while remaining to most of the world a glamour model.
Vie privée (1960), directed by Louis Malle has more than an element of autobiography in it. The scene in which, returning to her flat, Bardot's character is harangued in the lift by a middle-aged cleaning-lady calling her a tramp and a tart was based on an actual incident, and is a resonant image of celebrity in the mid-20th century.
Soon after, Bardot withdrew to the seclusion of Southern France and is now known to have attempted suicide, but as the sexual revolution of the early 1960s gathered momentum her lifestyle began to seem more like the norm and the pressure lifted. Through the sixties, she was happy to appear in glossy star-vehicles like Viva Maria (1969), to dabble in pop music and to play the role of glamour model and icon. In 1965 she appeared as herself in the Hollywood production Dear Brigitte starring Jimmy Stewart.
Her other husbands were German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs (1966-69), and French right-wing politician, Bernard d'Ormale (1992-present). She has also had reputed relationships with many men including singers Serge Gainsbourg and Sacha Distel. In the late 1950s, she shared an exchange she considered “croiser de deux sillages” with writer John Gilmore, then an actor in France for a New Wave film to have starred Jean Seberg. Gilmore told Paris Match, “I felt a beautiful warmth with Bardot but found it difficult to discuss things to any depth whatsoever”.
She is recognised for popularising bikini swimwear in early films such as Manina (Woman without a Veil, 1952) and in her appearances at Cannes and in many photo shoots. She even sported an early version of the monokini from time to time. Though this was not considered extraordinary in France, it was considered nearly scandalous in the US. The fashions of the 1960s looked effortlessly right and spontaneous on her and she joined Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy, in becoming a subject for Andy Warhol paintings.
In 1970, the sculptor Alain Gourdon used Bardot as the model for a bust of Marianne, the French national emblem.
Mentions of Bardot in music
The first song to reference Brigitte Bardot was "Gimme' that Wine" by vocalese group Lambert, Hendricks and Ross on the Columbia label in 1960.
Indie singer Jordan Galland also has a song called "Brigitte Bardot". In 1966, Harry Belafonte recorded "Zombie Jamboree" which has an entire verse dedicated to Brigitte Bargot.
Bardot has also been referenced in many other songs, including "I Shall Be Free" (Bob Dylan), "We Didn't Start the Fire" (Billy Joel), "Message of Love" (The Pretenders), "I Think I'm Going To Kill Myself" (Elton John), "Warlocks" (Red Hot Chili Peppers), "You Went The Wrong Way, Old King Louie" (Allan Sherman), "You're My Favourite Star" (The Bellamy Brothers), "It's Not Enough" (The Who), "Contempt" (Silkworm), "Big Wedge" (Fish),"Brigitte Bardot" (Tom Zé), "Alegria, Alegria" (Caetano Veloso), "Loaded" (ZZ Top), "Brigitte Bardot" (Creature), "Bardot" (Marden Hill), "Shir Nevu'i Cosmi Aliz" (Yoni Rechter & Eli Mohar), "Smiles Like Richard Nixon" (The Bad Examples), "Bijou" (Stew), "Stratford-On-Guy" (Liz Phair), and "Brigitte Bardot T.N.T." (Pizzicato Five).
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Harley Davidson
Brigitte Bardot Lyrics
Je n'ai besoin de personne en Harley Davidson
Je n'reconnais plus personne en Harley Davidson
J'appuie sur le starter
Et voici que je quitte la terre
J'irai p't'être au paradis mais dans un train d'enfer
Je n'ai besoin de personne en Harley Davidson
Je n'reconnais plus personne en Harley Davidson
Et si je meurs demain
C'est que tel était mon destin
Je tiens bien moins à la vie qu'à mon terrible engin
Quand je sens en chemin
Les trépidations de ma machine
Il me monte des désirs dans le creux de mes reins
Je n'ai besoin de personne en Harley Davidson
Je n'reconnais plus personne en Harley Davidson
Je vais à plus de cent
Et je me sens à feu et à sang
Que m'importe de mourir les cheveux dans le vent!
Que m'importe de mourir les cheveux dans le vent!
Lyrics © MELODY NELSON PUBLISHING, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, SIDONIE, RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
Written by: Serge Gainsbourg
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Anthony
Petit soleil
Merci d'avoir, comme tant d'autre, montrer que la femme était un être libre et qui n'appartient à personne mais elle même
Et surtout pour tous les animaux.
Je t'ai vu dans mes pensées il y a un ou deux mois (je ne sais plus) et ça m'a fait tellement plaisir, en sachant que tu as toujours eu peur de la mort.
Comme tout le monde plus ou moin.
Alors tu as joué ton rôle et moi je joue le miens on s'entraide tous les uns les autres entre fréres et sœurs.
Et oui les animaux ont des âmes et non ils ne vont pas aux paradis pour animaux. Ils sont comme nous voir beaucoup plus évolué dans leurs amours car eux ils nous aiment non pas parce que l'on est beau ou riche ou que sais-je, mais simplement parce qu'ils nous aiment. Et sans rien attendre vraiment en retour.
La mort, C est comme plonger d'une falaise dans l'océan. Ça fait peur mais une fois que l'on rentre dans cette océan d'amour et de lumière on ne fais qu'un avec et là on se laisse submerger et C est indescriptible. Personne ne peut comprendre ça. Et tant mieux, beaucoup, quitteraient se monde prématurément dès qu'une épreuve ne serait-ce un peut trop dur se montrerait. La peur de la mort est encore nécessaire pour beaucoup malheureusement.
Mais bon bref,
Et là tu rencontreras tes proches que tu as perdu, tu les verras exactement comme ils étaient avant et tu te diras, dans quel état je me suis mise alors qu ils étaient bien vivant et infiniment plus que moi.
Et là papa viendra, bien sûr une longue conversation aura lieu et tu verras le bien et le mal que tu as fait. Ça par contre C est très douloureux, le mal. Même ce qui peut sembler insignifiant peut avoir des conséquences dramatique sur autrui.
Une fois ça terminé tu verras une autre forme de lumière, une vibration plus légère, ce sas C est un peut comme le salon et cette autre état de lumière ta chambre et quand tu rentreras dedans, tu te diras ça y est je suis rentré à la maison, parce que là tu seras dans ton monde, plus Aucun mal ne te sera fait, plus aucun préjugé, plus d'infos terrible à la télé plus RIEN.
C est dans cette état de lumière que l ont créer tout ce que l on veut. Bien sûr tu peux inviter tes frères et sœurs à venir mais seulement si tu le souhaite.
Il n y aura personne pour t importuner et si tu voudras être seul entourer de centaine d animaux dans l endroit que tu auras créé, ça sera collevça.
J ai hâte de recréer Paris des années 60 sous la neige à Noël avec toute les décorations rien que pour moi et ma famille avec une magnifique aurore boréal dans le ciel. Tu peux rajouter de la vie en créant des personnes dans les rues qui de ce fait seront bien vivante et vaquer ont à leurs activitées sans faire attention à toi.
Sebastian Wendel
Je n'ai besoin de personne
En Harley Davidson
Je n'reconnais plus personne
En Harley Davidson
J'appuie sur le starter
Et voici que je quitte la terre
J'irai p't'être au paradis
Mais dans un train d'enfer
Je n'ai besoin de personne
En Harley Davidson
Je n'reconnais plus personne
En Harley Davidson
Et si je meurs demain
C'est que tel était mon destin
Je tiens bien moins à la vie
Qu'à mon terrible engin
Je n'ai besoin de personne
En Harley Davidson
Je n'reconnais plus personne
En Harley Davidson
Quand je sens en chemin
Les trépidations de ma machine
Il me monte des désirs
Dans le…
Alain BROCHET
Brigitte, vous êtes une merveille. Fier que vous soyez fier d'être Française ! Merci BB
Nadine Hervet
Merci BB . Elle est la merveille française . Bravo a tous ceux qui la félicité . ❤️❤️👏👏👏👍👍👍
Cinette Gab
Elle est splendide, aujourd'hui, elle demeure une grande dame, tous ses efforts pour proteger les animaux est fantastique. Je l'aime beaucoup et lui souhaite longue vie.
SigertJohansen
Je suis primatologue ( une discipline universitaire définie avec humour comme féministe, puisque pratiquement tous les primatologues sont des femmes) et engagée dans le projet des grands singes. Je confirme que Brigitte Bardot n'est pas seulement le sex symbol des années 1960 mais une personne admirable dont la notoriété et la sincérité égalent celles de Jane Goodall.
Je ne 'ai jamais rencontrée personnellement et je le regrette mais elle jouit d'un grand prestige pour quelqu'un qui n'est pas issue du milieu universitaire. En France il y a d'autres personnes engagées dans le même genre de mouvement mais Brigitte Bardot est un symbole et une inspiration universellement reconnue et appréciée.
A vrai dire étant étrangère je n'ai découvert ses films et sa carrière du siècle dernier que récemment, et à ma grande surprise c'était également une très bonne actrice et chanteuse ( J'ai 26 ans, je viens de finir mon doctorat et je ne suis pas francaise, j'ai seulement fait deux ans d'études en France dans une grande école, donc la culture francaise n'est pas innée)
Brigitte iannelli
C'est clair. Une grande dame
Ohm Ohm
Magnifique BB une reine de cœur !
fanfan Legrand
Superbe Brigitte Bardot....et RESPECT total pour ton engagement pour la cause animale. Tu es vraiment quelqu'un de bien.
Tanguy Chautard
@bob morane mais dans tous les cas c'est nous qui sommes derrière tous ce dérèglement de la chaîne alimentaire😉
Tanguy Chautard
@bob morane oui nous aussi nous avons toujours existé certes mais notre population augmente à vitesse grand V contrairement à eux
Tanguy Chautard
@bob morane c'est plutôt nous qui prenons tous les poissons des océans, eux les phoques ils ont toujours existé donc si il y a moins de poissons c'est de la faute de nous l'Homme