Plucking the Daisy (En effeuillant la marguerite) (1956)

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Release Date: Nov 17, 1957 Wide

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Because of star Brigitte Bardot's single fleeting disrobing scene in the French farce Please, Mr. Balzac!, the film was retitled Mademoiselle Striptease by one enterprising American distributor. Essentially, this is a harmless little escapade in which Bardot, escaping the strictures of her puritanical father, jumps off a train bound for a proper girls' school to seek her fortune in Paris. Here she moves in with her brother, a museum curator. The presence of the voluptuous Bardot causes most of

Unrated, 1 hr. 39 min.

Art House & International, Comedy

Directed By: Marc All�gret

In Theaters: Nov 17, 1957 Wide

On DVD: Apr 5, 2005

Distributors Corporation of America Inc.

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Critic Reviews for Plucking the Daisy (En effeuillant la marguerite)

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The silly bon-bon of romantic travails and mistaken identities by Marc Allegret is an often overbearingly chauvinistic sex comedy that survives solely on Bebe's charms...

January 10, 2010 Full Review Source: Seanax.com

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Sean Axmaker

Seanax.com

Its bastard grandchild may be the soft-core film, but this is exploitation of another era and it has an aesthetic. Silly -- ridiculous even -- but not bad.

July 8, 2004 Comment

Jake Euker

F5 (Wichita, KS) Source: F5 (Wichita, KS)

typical of the sexy French comedies of the 1950s, silly and slightly erotic, but never pushing any significant boundaries

January 16, 2002 Comment