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The archetypal sex kitten, Brigitte Bardot was the first foreign-language star ever to attain a level of international success comparable to America's most popular homegrown talents. While the vast majority of her motion pictures failed to rank even remotely close to the best of her native France's prodigious New Wave-era output, they proved a major breakthrough in establishing a market for foreign films in English-speaking countries; indeed, for all of the acclaim deservedly heaped on the more gifted actors and directors of her day, perhaps no other factor was more crucial to the far-reaching success of world cinema than Bardot's sultry allure. [Read more...]
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ChuckB writes "Film actress and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot is being tried in France for inciting racial hatred. The Courier-Mail of Queensland reports that Bardot, in her book Un cri dans le silence, writes that she opposes the Islamisization of France and racial mixing. The story ... notes that
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Brigitte Bardot was born on September 28th, 1934 in Passy, France and was named after her mother's favorite doll, but was known to her family as Bri-Bri. As a child she wore glasses as a result of astigmatism and sported braces in order to straighten out her crooked teeth. Sheltered by her parents she was sent to the strict Hattenar private school where she bummed about until discovering her love for dance, especially ballet.
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Actress Brigitte Bardot was born on 28 September, 1934 at Paris in France. Brigitte helped her father in their family business who had an engineering degree. Brigitte’s mother, who was about 14 years younger than her father, was wise enough to encourage her daughter to take lessons in Music and Dance. Brigitte Bardot proved to be very apt in learning both music and dance.
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Bardot was convicted several times for "inciting racial hatred" in various written articles and comments made in interviews. In 1997 she was fined for her comments published in Le Figaro newspaper. Her next conviction came in 1998 for the statement about the growing number of mosques in France. In June 2000 a French court fined her 30,000 francs for the comments, which were published in 1999 in her book Le Carre de Pluton.[15] [16].
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In the 1970s after her retirement from the entertainment industry, Bardot became an animal rights activist, which she continues today. During the 1990s she spoke a lot about her political views on such things as immigration, Islam in France, and homosexuality. She criticised these things, which has angered some people who are part of these groups.
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