Et Dieu... créa la femme (1956)

Director:

Roger Vadim

Writers:

Roger Vadim (writer) and
Raoul Lévy (writer)

Release Date:

21 October 1957 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

...but the devil invented Brigitte Bardot!

Plot:

In sunny St. Tropez, a young sexpot loves one brother but marries the other.

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity | Marriage Proposal | Love Triangle | France | Buxom

Cast

Brigitte Bardot	...	Juliete Hardy
Curd Jürgens	...	Eric Carradine (as Curd Jurgens)
Jean-Louis Trintignant	...	Michel Tardieu
Jane Marken	...	Madame Morin (as Jeanne Marken)
Jean Tissier	...	M. Vigier-Lefranc
Isabelle Corey	...	Lucienne
Jacqueline Ventura	...	Mme Vigier-Lefranc
Jacques Ciron	...	Le secrétaire d'Eric
Paul Faivre	...	M. Morin
Jany Mourey	...	Le déléguée de l'évêché
Philippe Grenier	...	Perri
Jean Lefebvre	...	L'homme qui veut danser (as Jean Lefèvre)
Leopoldo Francés	...	Le danseur (as Leopoldo Frances)
Jean Toscano	...	Rene (as Toscano)
Marie Glory	...	Mme. Tardieu (as Mary Glory)

Also Known As:

...And God Created Woman (USA)
And Woman... Was Created (UK)
E Dio creò la donna (Italy)
Piace a troppi (Italy)

Runtime:

95 min | USA:90 min

Country:

France | Italy

Language:

French | English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:X (original rating) | West Germany:18 (original rating) (1957) | Germany:12 (TV re-rating) | UK:PG (video release) | Finland:K-16 | Hong Kong:IIA | Sweden:15 | USA:PG (1978)

Filming Locations:

2 rue de Cepoun Louis Sanmartin, Saint-Tropez, Var, France

Company:

Cocinor

Trivia:

This film is generally credited with making St. Tropez a fashionable resort.

Quotes:

M. Vigier-Lefranc: Have you heard of shoes by Vigier?
Juliete Hardy: Yes.
M. Vigier-Lefranc: That's me. And you must have heard of Lefranc's refrigerators?
Juliete Hardy: Yes.
M. Vigier-Lefranc: That's me too. Would you like to dance a cha-cha-cha?
Juliete Hardy: I never dance with a vacuum cleaner!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Shadows (1959)

Soundtrack:

Dis-moi quelque chose de gentil

Review of B.B. films exhibited in Chile

By 1956 I was a child at primary school, and remember well that my colleagues mentioned that film. We were not permitted to go and watch the movie, but were concerned about it. B.B. was the sex symbol star by that time... to watch her was a shared aspiration by all her fans and to get it was a prowess. Unfortunately, I have never had the opportunity to watch a film starred by B.B. at a cinema room, nor by that time neither by now.

The film career of B.B. is extensive indeed, but only a very few titles were brought to Chile. "And God created Woman", "Viva Maria" (where B.B. acts as a female guerrilla leader during the Mexican Revolution) have been the only films I ever remember to be exhibited in public cinema rooms in Chile.