Brigitte Bardot #2

[Miss Retro]

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[funnyfan]

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Love these photos! They're actually from La Lumiere d'en Face, right? She's wearing the same satin dress in these photos that she dos in the movies.

A few more pictures of her wearing this dress, from Bellazon's forums:

 

[funnyfan]

Oooh thank you funnyfan. That's a lovely one!

Ah, you're welcome! If anyone has more pictures of young BB wearing that white dress in Cannes, I would love to see them! I found one or two (posted below) from the Bellazon forums and the past Fashionspot thread on BB but I know I'm missing a ton of images...

 

[funnyfan]

Yeah it must have been very hard to be the sister of a living myth. Mijanou dropped acting because both the audience and the film makers were expecting her to be like Brigitte (her voice and the way she talked were quite similar to B. It's a shame because Deneuve and Dorléac proved it was possible for two sisters to coexist in the film industry, but Mijanou probably wasn't really made for that. She once said she was eventually glad of how things turned out because she had a happy life (she's married to actor Patrick Bauchau) whereas Brigitte became a prisoner of her extreme fame and was never able to live normally again.

So basically... poor Mijanou was the Lady Edith to Brigitte's Lady Mary? Poor girl... imagine trying to break into acting with that comparison being thrown at you all the time?

Which isn't to say Mijanou wasn't a nice looking girl... she had a perfectly pleasant face and who doesn't love freckles? But... yeah, I can see why she'd quite after being compared to her incandescent sister after enough time. Nice to see that she found her happy ending, however.

And it's so wild to think that Brigitte was considered the "plain" sister during her youth! But then, from what I've read up on BB, she apparently didn't have the sort of "look" that was considered beautiful at the time, right? And when you look at just her face (ignoring that fantastic figure that would have captivated during any time period!), you can kiiiiiiiind of see why. She just didn't have the type of "beauty" that was appreciated in the 1940s and initially in the 1950's... though she sure changed that soon!

When you look at just BB's face, you notice she really isn't a classical beauty. In her youth, her cheeks were quite round, her eyes were quite small (not big doe eyes, but longer, more cat-like eyes), her mouth was very full in proportion to her face (whereas the "European ideal" has often been thinner lips for women), and her chin is definitely quite square and has a cleft in it that is definitely not standard for many women considered to be beautiful. Facially alone, she would probably be considered less "pretty" in the usual sense than someone like, say, Grace Kelly. (Who is the definite "aristocratic" blond in American cinema!)

But that's more than compensated by BB's liveliness and sensuality, so much so that when you look at her, you don't look so much at her "flaws" as her most attractive features-- her lush hair, the spark in her dark eyes, her bright grin, her amazing body, the easy way she wore her clothes, her graceful gestures, her sexy voice, etc. In fact, I think I like BB all the better for not looking so perfect or so close to some sort of ideal... and I think that's what makes BB so much more memorable than the scores of blondes who try to imitate her. They're not enough out-of-the-mold to startle your eyes into remembering them!

Conventional Beauty + Arresting Flaws + Amazing Style = Icon? I think we're on the verge of discovering a new mathematical formula here...

 

[Miss Retro]

Those are amazing thank you!

 

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[funnyfan]

The last photo is pretty and very new to me! It's from the 70s, I'm guessing???

And I have been hard at work trying to make some gifs from this one vid of La Lumiere d'en Face that I managed to download... (Though I still can't get the full move, dang it.) Please enjoy! The gifs aren't the best quality but young BB is still radiantly beautiful... and so very vulnerable in this movie too!

(Please click to see the gifs move... unfortunately, I can't seem to post the gifs themselves in the forum.)

 

[Miss Retro]

Yes the gifs work fine. They are amazing. Thank you!

 

[funnyfan]

Yes the gifs work fine. They are amazing. Thank you!

I'm so glad you enjoyed! Here are some more... I may have gone over-board in making them from the clips I had... but she's so lovely in this movie, I could not resist. And I still have more to post, if you can believe it! I just so adore how different she is in this movie compared to other movies she's been cast in... Honestly, even without understanding or listening to a single word of dialog, it's easy to see her frustration, pain, innocence and loneliness from her simple gestures or facial expressions. It's amazing how wonderful and expressive she is in this movie, compared to some of her later through-away movies, where she was still charming and beautiful but not much of a thespian. I guess BB really needed a talented director to bring out the best in her!

(Weirdly, some gifs will show up as they are done and other ones won't. The still gifs need you to click on them!)

 

[funnyfan]

Hmmm... let's try this again once more... Postimage.org keeps shrinking my bloody gifs...

Bingo! TinyPic works! Sorry... give me a minute... let me repost the gifs again in their proper form...

 

[funnyfan]

More Gifs...

Hooray, my gifs are showing at last in their proper form! I'm glad all this frustration is paying off after all.

Also, if anyone else sends me tiny clips of BB in her movies, I'll be happy to make more gifs! I'm especially looking for young brunette BB movies, if you have clips to send to me.

 

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[CielDeLit]

Lovely gifs thank you makes me wanna see the movie again !

The last photo is pretty and very new to me! It's from the 70s, I'm guessing???

No, that's at her 30th birthday party, which means 1964

 

[Miss Retro]

Oooh I love them big like that. Thank you funnyfan. Very amazing!

 

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