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In 1952, Brigitte Bardot co-starred with Bourvil in her first film, Crazy for Love, and married Vadim that same year. At the age of 18, she was not yet known as BB. Here, she poses on the roof of her Parisian apartment building a few years before rising to the highest heights. Her tutu and ballet slippers point to her years spent at the Conservatoire. The little ballerina had a bright future, as the photographer Walter Carone assured her, and she would quickly become a star of the cinema.

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