And God Created Woman (1956 film)

And God Created Woman
And God Created Woman
	Theatrical release poster
French	Et Dieu... créa la femme
Directed by	Roger Vadim
Written by	Roger Vadim; Raoul Lévy;
Produced by	Raoul Lévy
Starring	Brigitte Bardot; Curd Jürgens; Jean-Louis Trintignant;
Cinematography	Armand Thirard
Edited by	Victoria Mercanton
Music by	Paul Misraki
Production; companies	Iéna Productions; Union Cinématographique Lyonnaise;
Distributed by	Cocinor
Release date	28 November 1956 (France);
Running time	91 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	$300,000 (est.)
Box office	$12 million (U.S.); $21 million (foreign); 3,919,059 admissions (France);

And God Created Woman (French: Et Dieu... créa la femme) is a 1956 French romantic drama film directed by Roger Vadim in his directorial debut and starring Brigitte Bardot. Though not her first film, it is widely recognized as the vehicle that launched Bardot into the public spotlight and immediately created her "sex kitten" persona, making her an overnight sensation.

When the film was released in the United States by Kingsley-International Pictures in 1957, it pushed the boundaries of the representation of sexuality in American cinema, and most available prints of the film were heavily edited to conform with the Hays Code censorial standards.^[5] Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich credited it for "breaking French cinema out of U.S. art houses and into the mainstream and thereby inadvertently also paving the way for the takeover in France of the New Wave filmmakers."^[6]

An English-language remake also titled And God Created Woman was directed by Vadim and released in 1988.

^ Scheuer, Philip K. (20 July 1965). "Vadim Is Frank On, Off Screen". Los Angeles Times. p. C8.
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^ "Box office information for Et Dieu… crea la femme in France". Box Office Story.
^ And God Created Woman at AllMovie.
^ Bogdanovich, Peter (11 January 1999). "Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week". The New York Observer.

[1] Scheuer, Philip K. (20 July 1965). "Vadim Is Frank On, Off Screen". Los Angeles Times. p. C8.

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[4] "Box office information for Et Dieu… crea la femme in France". Box Office Story.

[5] And God Created Woman at AllMovie.

[6] Bogdanovich, Peter (11 January 1999). "Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week". The New York Observer.

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And God Created Woman
Theatrical release poster

French	Et Dieu... créa la femme

Directed by	Roger Vadim
Written by	Roger Vadim Raoul Lévy
Produced by	Raoul Lévy
Starring	Brigitte Bardot Curd Jürgens Jean-Louis Trintignant
Cinematography	Armand Thirard
Edited by	Victoria Mercanton
Music by	Paul Misraki
Production companies	Iéna Productions Union Cinématographique Lyonnaise
Distributed by	Cocinor
Release date	28 November 1956 (1956-11-28) (France)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	$300,000 (est.)^[1]
Box office	$12 million (U.S.)^[2] $21 million (foreign)^[3] 3,919,059 admissions (France)^[4]