WEIRDLAND TV (Posts tagged 50s)

The all-new Brigitte Bardot gallery.

(I’ve fired up my BB Instagram account again. Many of the rare and unique photos that I upload online find their way to other BB accounts anyway, often with wrong information or in lesser quality, so I figured I might just as well post them on my own dedicated account—properly. And also, people were very appreciative of my account, which has many photos nobody has seen before, and I kind of missed the fun of doing it. It’s good therapy.)

EDIT: I forgot to change back the privacy settings of my account. So if you weren’t able to follow me—it’s fixed now. Sorry about that.

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Brigitte Bardot on the set of Et Dieu… créa la femme (AND GOD CREATED WOMAN) in 1956. She wore her own clothes in the film, as she did in many of her films in fact. The name of her character in Et Dieu…, Juliette Hardy, isn’t very far removed from her own name. Saint-Tropez, the location of the film, was familiar to her because she would spend summers there with her parents (and she lives there of course). Et Dieu…, basically, is Brigitte Bardot as seen through the eyes of a smitten Roger Vadim: a luscious cinematic love letter.

The film was shot in Saint-Tropez and at the Studios de la Victorine in Nice.

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Concept paintings by Mary Blair for Disney’s PETER PAN.

“I forget people after I kill them,” Peter Pan says in PETER & WENDY. Was that in the Disney version?

One of the great “lost movies”: in the 1960s, there was talk of making a live action Peter Pan movie with Audrey Hepburn as Peter Pan, Peter Sellers as Captain Hook, and Hayley Mills as Wendy. The world was robbed of something wonderful there…

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A nameless extra who would go on to become a screen goddess—and win an Academy Award: a very young Sophia Loren (first image, pink dress) in QUO VADIS (1951). (How did they shoot those crowd scenes?)

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Animation art from Disney’s LADY AND THE TRAMP (1955). The storyboards (image 1) are like illustrations from a children’s book: fully formed, ready to be published. Joe Rinaldi and Bill Peet, masters at their craft—were they even capable of making a bad drawing?

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Cinema “Le Berlitz”, in Paris, located at 33 Boulevard des Italiens. A major “first run” theatre where many A-films premiered, among them Brigitte Bardot movies such as La femme et le pantin (A WOMAN LIKE SATAN) in 1959, seen here in this photo by Robert Doisneau.

BB in her time: that fascinates me. For example, these Cinémonde readers writing about BB in 1958/9, that give you an idea of the vitriol she received: “She has protruding teeth, sagging breasts, a thick waist, discoloured hair, skinny legs and huge feet”, with another reader adding that she is “repulsive and badly groomed, her hair messy and always unkempt”, while another reader hates “‭the lice-infected mane of our most sexy star of the moment”. She is often ridiculed for both her appearance and her performances—her bad acting, her embarrassing dancing, her vulgarity. You read these letters and you understand why BB said she never felt much loved in France.‬

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Brigitte Bardot.

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Brigitte Bardot and Odette Joyeux at a book signing event for La mariée est trop belle (THE BRIDE IS MUCH TOO BEAUTIFUL) in 1957. (Joyeux, herself a former actress, was the author of the book on which the Bardot film was based.)

My Brigitte Bardot Instagram account.