Labels:text | human face | person OCR: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Bardot, Brigitte Brigitte Bardot "If she didn't exist, we'd have to invent her," Italian film director Federico Fellini once said of the curvaceous, blonde, sex symbol of the 1950s and 1960s with the voluptuous full-lipped pout. Although she never went to Hollywood, Bardot became an international screen icon, famous for the image of liberated sensuality epitomized in films such as "And God Created Woman." Daughter of businessman Louis Bardot, she grew up in the heart of bourgeois Paris. After studying to be a dancer, the teenage Bardot briefly took up modeling before being "discovered" by film director Roger Vadim. In 1952 Vadim married Bardot and acted as her mentor for nearly a decade. Although she appeared in 48 films, Bardot Brigitte Bardot, hated the attentions of the "paparazzi" and was French film star, 1934 - never very enthusiastic about acting. At age 39 she retired to St. Tropez and devoted herself to animal welfare. "I gave my beauty and my youth to men," she said, "I am now giving my wisdom and my experience, the best of me, to animals." CHRONOLOGY
