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Plucking the Daisy (French: En effeuillant la marguerite) is a 1956 French comedy film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Daniel Gélin and Brigitte Bardot. It was also known as Mam'selle Striptease and Please Mr Balzac. (Also known as "Mademoiselle Striptease" and often confused with 1957 French film "Mademoiselle Strip-tease" [2])
A person playing the game alternately speaks the phrases "He (or she) loves me," and "He loves me not," while picking one petal off a flower (usually an ox-eye daisy) for each phrase. The phrase they speak on picking off the last petal supposedly represents the truth between the object of their affection loving them or not.
Daisy" aired as a commercial only once, [43] during a September 7, 1964, telecast of the film David and Bathsheba on The NBC Monday Movie. [44] As the film is based on a biblical story, it is considered a family film and believed to be appropriate for the advertisement, as its audience would be one the Johnson campaign wanted to target. [ 45 ]
The film was a commercial disappointment. However the next collaboration between Allegret, Bardot and Vadim, Plucking the Daisy (1956), aka Mam'selle Striptease, was a huge success at the French box office. So too was Naughty Girl (1956), with Bardot. This allowed Vadim to get backing for his first movie as director.
Plucking the Daisy (French: En effeuillant la marguerite) Agnès Dumont: aka Mam'selle Striptease: And God Created Woman (French : Et Dieu... créa la femme) Juliette Hardy: The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful (French: La Mariée est trop belle) Chouchou: 1957: The Parisian (French: La Parisienne) Brigitte Laurier: 1958
What the Daisy Said is a ... The film concludes in the field of daisies where Millie abandons another round of petal plucking to walk off arm-in-arm with a strapping ...
Plucking the Daisy; The Porter from Maxim's (1976 film) Prince Bouboule; The Prize (1950 film) The Proud and the Beautiful; R. La Reine Margot (1954 film) Return at ...
Born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, he was the elder brother of Yves Allégret.Marc was educated to be a lawyer in Paris, but while accompanying his lover André Gide on a trip in 1927 to the Congo in Africa, [2] he recorded the trip on film, [3] after which he chose to pursue a career in the motion picture industry.