"Plucking the Daisy"
1958
Directed by Marc Allégret

The London News Chronicle called Brigitte Bardot "one of the most astonishing myths of the post war world." In Plucking the Daisy, Agnes Dumont (Bardot) anonymously writes a scandalous best-selling romance novel for which her father - the highly respected General Dumont - ships her off to a convent.  Instead, she flees to Paris to live with her brother who claims to be a "rich and famous painter" (he's really just a tour guide at the Balzac museum). Now in need of money, she decides that the best way to earn it is by winning the Grand-Prize in a striptease contest. "Pure Mayhem." - The Motion Picture Guide. Includes original theatrical trailer.  Digitally remastered. With Brigitte Bardot, Daniel Grélin, Darry Cowl, Jacques Dumensil, Robert Hirsch.  French with English subtitles. B&W.  99 minutes.