BARDOT 'SEX KITTEN' MYTH

Her hair was a wild mess and her skirt slit to the waist, but the mambo dance that Brigitte Bardot performed in "And God Created Woman" became an overnight sensation in the staid 1950s.

- BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS GUYOT

French actress Brigitte Bardot arrives in London in 1968 (AFP)

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Bardot created a "sex kitten" myth that outraged French censors.The scene, both innocent and provocative, was the embodiment of a looming sexual revolution. It was one Bardot, who has died aged 91, never lived down nor really sought to. Shot in 1956 in Saint-Tropez, which later became her home and refuge, "And God Created Woman" remained one of her great cinema memories.