La Mariee Est Trop Belle (1956)

A young country girl (Brigitte Bardot) is plucked out of obscurity by the editor (Micheline Presle) of a magazine to become a model. As she rises to success in the modeling world, she finds romance more difficult to maneuver. Directed by Pierre Gaspard Huit. This piece of fluff was typical of Bardot's ingenue period period before AND GOD CREATED WOMAN turned her into an international sex symbol. If this movie had been made in Hollywood (and they probably would have made it better), Bardot's role could easily have been played by Debbie Reynolds. The film wasn't released in the U.S. until two years after AND GOD CREATED WOMAN's release. It's a rather dull witted farce and one can't help but feel a bit sorry for the actors as they flap their wings and huff and puff trying to get the movie to take off but it sits there like a plane without fuel. Still, Bardot and Presle look quite fetching in their Pierre Balmain frocks. With Louis Jourdan, Jean Francois Calve, Roger Dumas and the pop singer Marcel Amont, who suddenly breaks into song at the dinner table. No, it's not a musical but I guess they figured since they had a pop star in the movie, why not give him a song.