4. Happy 80th Birthday Brigitte Bardot

5. This 1955 shot was taken at a time when her reputation in France as an actor and beauty was burgeoning. Photograph: Express/Getty Images

6. Brigitte Bardot photographed at the time she was making the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain, 1958. Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images

7. Brigitte Bardot on set with actor Michel Roux,
1958. Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty
Images

8. Brigitte Bardot photographed at the time she was making the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain, 1958. Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images

9. French actress Brigitte
Bardot photographed at the
time she was making the
film, La Femme et le
Pantin, Spain, 1958.
Loomis DeanTime & Life
Pictures/Getty Images

10. French actress Brigitte Bardot
photographed at the time she was making
the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain,
1958. Loomis DeanTime & Life
Pictures/Getty Images

11. Brigitte Bardot plays the guitar while on the set of the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain, 1958.Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images

12. Brigit te Bardot on the set of the film, La
Femme et le Pantin, Spain, 1958. Loomis
DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images

13. Brigit te Bardot on the set of the film, La Femme
et le Pantin, Spain, 1958. Loomis DeanTime &
Life Pictures/Getty Images

14. Brigi tte Bardot checks her hair and makeup on the
set of the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain, 1958.
Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images

15. Brigitte Bardot (holding a copy of LIFE
magazine) looks at a photographic slide on the
set of the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain,
1958. Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty
Images

16. Brigitte Bardot on the set of the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain, 1958. Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images

17. Brigitte Bardot photographed between takes on
the set of the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain,
1958. Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty
Images

18. Brigitt e Bardot with co-star Antonio Vilar on the set of
the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain, 1958. Loomis
DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images

19. Film director Roger Vadim had seen a photograph of Bardot when she was very young and waited until she had just turned 18 to marry her in December 1952 at the
Church of Passy, France.Photograph: RDA/Getty Images

20. In 1953 Bardot appeared alongside Kirk Douglas in Un Acte D’amour (Act of Love). Here she is on the beach with him during the 6th International Cannes film
festival. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex

21. In 1955, Bardot came to England to film Doctor at Sea and here is photographed in London before her fame made it impossible to wander unrecognised.
Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images

22. Brigi tte Bardot in Doctor at Sea.Photograph:
ITV/Rex

23. Bardot, pictured here on the set of La Lumière
D’en Face (The Light Across the Street) in late
1955, appeared in several more rom-coms
before her big breakthrough in
1956.Photograph: Sunset Boulevard

24. Brigitte Bardot watching Pablo Picasso at work in his studio in Vallauris during the 1956 International Cannes film festival.Photograph: RDA/Getty Images

25. Bardot’s films, this is a still from 1957’s La Parisienne, continued to ooze sex appeal which led to the coining of the phrase ‘Sex Kitten’ about her the following year.
Photograph: Allstar

26. Now reporters and paparazzi covered her every move. Here Brigitte learns how to ride a horse for the film La femme et le pantin (A Woman Like Satan) in 1958.
Photograph: Yves Manciet/Sipa/Rex

27. Later in 1958, she posed at the
famous resort of Cortina
d’Ampezzo, Italy. Photograph:
Bettmann

28. Cover star Bardot on the set of the film Babette s’en va-t-en guerre (Babette Goes to War) in 1959. It was a big year for her. Photograph: Sipa/Rex

29. Photographer Sam Levin was instrumental in
creating Bardot’s image and the so-called Towel
Session in 1959 is one of her most famous
shoots. Simone de Beauvoir wrote a famous
essay that year entitled Brigitte Bardot and the
Lolita Syndrome. Photograph: Sam
Levin/Cinetext/Allstar Collection

30. On 11 January 1960 Bardot gave birth to her only child, Nicolas. Here she is cuddling him in her Paris apartment. Photograph: AP

31. Bardot’s love of music led to her releasing several records in the 60s and 70s. Here she is playing guitar in Saint-Tropez. Photograph: Dalmas/Rex

32. But film was still her main creative outlet. Here she is on the set of Le Repos du Guerrier, directed by Roger Vadim, in Paris in February 1962. Photograph:
Sygma/Corbis

33. Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli in Le Mepris (Contempt) directed by Jean-Luc Godard in 1963. Photograph: Nana Productions/REX

34. The ever popular Bardot during a visit to London in October 1963. Photograph: Henri Bureau/Sygma/Corbis

35. Bardot married Gunter Sachs in 1966, a marriage that lasted three years. Here she is in Saint-Tropez in August 1967 with Johnny Hallyday. Photograph: Jean-Pierre
Bonnotte/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

36. Terry O’Neill photographed the making of 1968’s
Shalako on location in Spain. O’Neill considered
this shot of Bardot as one of his best, as he
explains here.Photograph: Terry O'Neill/Getty
Images

37. Another shot by O’Neill on location filming the western Shalako. Sean Connery takes a picture of Bardot. This was the first time the stars had met.Photograph: Terry
O'Neill/Getty Images

38. Photo Michou Simon

39. Brigitte Bardot and her dog - Saint Tropez 1975

40. Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot 1967

41. Picture taken in St Tropez, southern France,
June 7, 1973, shows French star Brigitte
Bardot and her friend Laurent Verges having
a drink in the Club 55 beach.Credit: AFP/Getty
Images

42. A picture dated July 16, 1966,
shows Brigitte Bardot flanked
and her third husband Gunther
Sachs, right, arriving at Las
Vegas after their marriage. They
divorced in 1969.Credit :
AFP/Getty Images

43. French singer Sascha Distel is seen with
Brigitte Bardot in this 1958 file photo taken
at Antibes, southern France.Credit : AP
Photo

44. Brigitte Bardot on May 6, 2004.She
was one of the best-known sex
symbols of the 1950s and '60s and
gained international attention as the
star of Roger Vadim's "And God
Created Women." Married four times,
Bardot was Vadim's wife when they
made the movie.Credit: AP

45. Ex-film star and a prominent animal rights campaigner Brigitte Bardot on July 16, 2001 after a meeting with French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in Paris.Credit: Jack
Guez

46. Brigitte Bardot, the 1960s sex symbol turned animal rights activist, poses during the 20th anniversary celebration of her wildlife foundation, Sept. 28, 2006, in
Paris.Credit: Stephane De Sakutin /AFP/Getty Images

47. Brigitte Bardot, the 1960s sex symbol turned
animal rights activist, poses with her book during
the 20th anniversary celebration of her wildlife
foundation, Sept. 28, 2006, in Paris.Credit:
Stephane De Sakutin /AFP/Getty Images

48. Brigitte Bardot talks to the press Feb. 28, 2001,
after arriving at the Bucharest airport in Romania.
Bardot proposed to officials there a campaign to
sterilize the city's stray dogs and, through her
animal rights foundation. She has donated more
than $140,000 to the sterilization effort.Credit :
Kael Alford

49. French Actress Brigitte Bardot, left, flanked by her husband Gunter Sachs arrives in Tahiti on July 21, 1966. The two were married from 1966-69.Credit : Getty Images

50. French actress Brigitte Bardot and her friend Christian Kalt spending Eastertide in Saint-Tropez on April 4, 1972.Credit: Ralph Gatti /AFP/Getty Images

51. French actress Brigitte Bardot rehearsing a TV show for Christmas at the ORTF (French Radio and Television Broadcasting) studio in Paris on Dec. 3, 1967.Credit:
Archive /AFP/Getty Images

52. Brigitte Bardot inaugurates the exposition "100 photos of Brigitte Bradot" in Paris.Credit: Archive /AFP/Getty Images

53. French actress Brigitte Bardot on the set of "La verite" directed by G.H. Clouzot on Aug. 23, 1960.Credit: Archive /AFP/Getty Images

54. A photo taken in September 1952 shows Brigitte Bardot, aged 18 years old, and her sister Mijanou.Credit: Archive /AFP/Getty Images

55. Brigitte Bardot with American comic actor Danhny Kaye at Joinville's studio on Jan. 17, 1959.Credit: Archive /AFP/Getty Images

56. Brigitte Bardot with American comic actor Danhny Kaye at Joinville's studio on Jan. 17, 1959.Credit : Archive /AFP/Getty Images

57. A photo taken in the '50s shows French actress Brigitte Bardot.Credit: Archive /AFP/Getty Images

58. Brigitte Bardot, with a seal baby, protests against seal-hunting in fecamp, northern France, on April 8, 1976.Credit: Archive /AFP/Getty Images

59. An undated file picture shows Brigitte Bardot posing with dogs on the beach in Cannes.Credit : AFP/Getty Images

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