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As always, Brigitte plays a pouty fleshpot yearning for a man (Henri Vidal) who doesn't yearn back. This unlikely situation is sillier than usual because this time, besides her natural endowments, she has wealth and social position as the daughter of the "Prime Minister" of France. But Vidal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 28, 1958 | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

After this unhappy beginning, the scriptwriters quickly get down to the business of kidding the pants off Brigitte. In a hilariously overplayed bit of French farce, Brigitte is found by her father hiding in Vidal's bed, and delightedly accepts his stern order that they marry. Order carried out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 28, 1958 | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

Brigitte is still no comedienne. But she does make the most voluptuous straight man in the world, especially when playing with such pros as Boyer and Vidal. The film is not notable for witty lines, but with a glance, a shrug, an understated double take, the two actors have turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 28, 1958 | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

Never Twice. The goddesses of St. Trop are Brigitte Bardot and Franchise Sagan, both of whom were holding court there last week. The men wear shorts and rope sandals; the women, with or without Bardot's dimensions, wear floppy white hats, brightly colored loose shirts, and pastel trousers so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: This Happy Few | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

To be accepted among the happy few, one should be more than well off, though in July and August a waterfront apartment may rent for as much as $1.000 a month, and money, therefore, has its uses. Most of the summer invaders seem to have come straight out of Sagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: This Happy Few | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

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