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Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.

Brigitte Bardot

Burn, Brigitte Bardot, Burn

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Brigitte Bardot as a 19 year-old starlet in a 1955 photo from Cannes.

In the pantheon of international movie stars, perhaps no actor was less prepared for the rigors of fame than Brigitte Bardot.

Originally pursuing a career as a ballerina—look at her movies, BB’s posture is a plum line—Bardot was discovered by director Roger Vadim when she was a restless, 15 year-old school girl.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“The Method school [Brando, Clift, Dean] thinks the emotion is the art. It isn’t. All emotion isn’t sublime. The theater isn’t reality. If you want reality, go to the morgue. The theater is human behavior that is effective and interesting.“
—Agnes Moorehead
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Acting is like sex: you either do it and don’t talk about it, or you talk about it and don’t do it. That’s why I’m always suspicious of people who talk too much about either.“
—Humphrey Bogart

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I turned my hair dark and have received much better parts ever since… I was sometimes greeted as Miss Lamarr in dimly lit restaurants. Personally, I liked the idea of escaping from all that bland, blonde innocence and thought the whole thing was very funny, but I don’t think Hedy found the comparisons very amusing.“
—Joan Bennett

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“The trouble with Hollywood is that the producers and agents are the aristocrats… which made actors who make their living in Hollywood usually feel they are some sort of scum. They looked for other means of showing off and were great on rallies for political candidates.”
—James Mason

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