Brigitte Bardot's prize list was still limited to six screen appearances when, in 1953, she became, for the first time, the target of photographers at the Cannes Film Festival.
She creates the event by posing in a bikini on a beach on the Croisette.
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Three years later, she became, in a few weeks, an international star, thanks to
And God Created Woman
, directed by Roger Vadim.
She can't imagine the riot that will now trigger each of her appearances on the steps of the Palace.
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Morally, she does not come very well.
For a few months, she will thus be distant towards journalists who want to interview her, or even cancel appointments.
She thus creates a "
bad reputation
" which will fade and even disappear little by little after the dissemination of her confidences in front of the camera of François Chalais.