talesfromweirdland:

Brigitte Bardot in her second film, MANINA, LA FILLE SANS VOILES (1952). Or: Manina, the Girl in the Bikini as it was called in English.

Photo by Edward Quinn.

She never cared much about acting, and once said, “I just showed up, said my lines, and hoped I didn’t make a fool of myself.” That she didn’t: for someone uninterested in acting she was actually pretty good at it, as films like La verité (1960) and Vie privée (1962) prove.