In 1958, an article in the LA Mirror asked: “Should we ban Brigitte Bardot?”
“Every time I pick up a newspaper or go by a theatre marquee there she is, blasted all over the place with her stringy, unkempt hair, her plunging necklines, her bare feet, her vapid eyes and her half-opened mouth,” complained columnist Dick Williams. “Her casual attitude towards marriage is both shocking and immoral.”
