Screen-Caps for The Bride is Too Beautiful/Her Bridal Night!
Also, since I have been meandering and having far too much fun on tumblr, I've been neglecting my self-appointed screen-capping duties here much too much. So without further ado... let me put up a few screen-caps for the very early 1956 romantic comedy,
La Mariee Est Trop Belle! (Which is known as both
Her Bridal Night and
The Bride is Too Beautiful in the US.)
(Many, many thanks, btw, goes to
Fiammifero for mailing me a copy of this movie. These screen-caps could never have been done without her.
)
Anyway, this movie is a little bit of a weird entry into BB's filmography, as it was released in the very same year as
And God Created Woman, which overshadowed it more-or-less completely. This is actually one of the first film performances of BB as as blonde, but her adorable protagonist
Chouchou (seriously, that's her name) could not be more different than the sensuous, free-spirited, convention defying Juliette of
And God Created Woman.
Chouchou is very much a romantic protagonist of the '50s... she's a lovely young provincial girl who's discovered by a handsome scout, gets whisked off to Paris to wear a series of gorgeous fashions, falls in love with the same scout, gets involved in a crazy love trapezoid with a male model who adores her and a female editor who wants her man, has to stage a fake wedding, and eventually gets a real one! Needless to say, the movie is mostly a series of wacky set-pieces (including a great dance number with BB!) leading to a happy ending... but it's very cute, BB makes for a plucky leading lady you can really root for, and she gets to parade around some fantastic fashion shoots as well. It's a shame this movie isn't well known and isn't commercially available in the US, as far as I know. It's quite a charming film, even if it's lighter than air.
Anyway, you can download 80+ caps here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ci157wk8qv1jd3c
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not my personal fan-site nor a site I am affiliated with or make any income from. It's a file-sharing site that I'm using only to upload these screen-caps, which are for private use. You won't be charged for using this site and the download process is free, easy, and takes place without any waiting period. And don't worry about getting your computer infected-- Mediafire has no viruses!]
[And feel free to put up these screen-caps on any other site if you like-- no need to credit me! Take them and have fun.]
Anyway, now that that disclaimer is over and done with... let me give discuss a few notable outfits from the movie... although I'll save some for the days ahead. Screen-caps are all mine, taken from the DVD.
I. Chouchou's Spectacular "Sham-Wedding" Bridal Gown
Naturally, the very first dress everyone is going to be dazzled with in this movie-- and in fact, the very first costume we ever see-- is the gorgeous, gorgeous dress that BB's character, Chouchou, wears at her "sham-wedding" to drum up publicity for her career. Needless to say, it's a princess dress to end all princess dresses, complete with a dazzling high-necked bodice bedecked with what must be thousands of rhinestones, an enormous skirt with one hell of a bow at the back,
accompanied by a GIANT sparkling tiara and a yards-long veil.
Needless to say, it's a gorgeous dress that must weigh a metric ton and would have eaten a lesser woman alive. I love that Brigitte manages to pull it off with aplomb and still look like herself in the middle of this beautiful monster anyway!
And wait till you see the undergarments she had to wear to support this thing...! Seriously, walking around in this must have been like moving through bloody molasses.
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...Say, does anyone have more hi-fi photos of this dress? I know I ran across a few but I can't seem to find them now.