Plucking the Daisy (French: En effeuillant la marguerite) is a 1956 French comedy film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Brigitte Bardot.
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Directed by | Marc Allégret |
Written by | Marc Allégret Roger Vadim Pierre Foucaud |
Produced by | Raymond Eger René Thévenet |
Starring | Brigitte Bardot Daniel Gélin |
Cinematography | Louis Page |
Music by | Paul Misraki |
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Language | French |
Box office | 3,296,793 admissions (France)[1] |
It was also known as Mademoiselle Striptease and Please Mr Balzac.
Turner Classic Movies called it "a typical French romantic comedy... complete with a meet-cute on a train, and plenty of loving shots of Bardot's pert behind.... typical of the suggestive but innocuous films that Bardot made early in her career."[2]
General Dumont discovers that his daughter Agnes is "A.D.", author of a scandalous under-the-counter novel.
He tries to send her to a convent but she escapes to Paris to live with her brother. On the train she meets Daniel, a journalist. Agnes thinks her brother is a rich artist but he's actually a poor guide in the Balzac Museum.
Agnes needs money and enters an amateur striptease contest. Daniel is covering the contest for his magazine.
Roger Vadim had just written a movie which launched Bardot as a leading lady, Naughty Girl. He called this movie "a hack job based on an 'original idea' by the producer which was anything but original... I changed the plot and wrote an amusing, romantic and sexy story."[3]
In 1956, the film was the 20th most popular of the year, at the French box office.[4] It was released before Bardot's film And God Created Woman, which was the 13th most popular and Naughty Girl which was 12th.[5]
It was released in the US as Mademoiselle Striptease. The Washington Post called it "one of the nicest comedies of the summer."[6] The Los Angeles Times called it "a most delightful, naughty and very funny comedy... Bardot strikes pure gold... it's strictly a fun show that doesn't try to prove a thing."[7]
It was also released in the US as Please Mr Balzac. The New York Times said the "sole excuse for this singularly unfrothy and unfunny romantic comedy is Brigitte Bardot....[a] thin, old-fashioned, slightly smutty and extremely dull charade... The picture is pretty awful. It needn't have been."[8]
Select Films of Marc Allégret | |
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Films directed by Roger Vadim | |
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