BRIDGETTE BARF-ARF-ARF-DOE

LA PARISIENNE (UNE PARISIENNE) (1957)
dir: Michel Boisrond

These are just a few bits of different things. I chose La Parisienne as the overall movie title since that's the film that establishes Brigitte Bardot's persona as “French girl clad only in a towel”. None of the films she was in are particularly dirty, they just were considered that when they were released compared to the pre-ratings motion picture code. They were shown at 'art houses'.

The first is the cover of Cracked #10, August 1959, by Will Elder. There was a time when Harvey Kurtzman left MAD and artists could either be on Team Gaines or Team Kurtzman. When Kurtzman's magazines all failed, his artists weren't welcome back at MAD (at least for the time being) and got work at its competitors, such as with this cover.

This was the inside front cover of the issue, supposed to be the other side of the building.

And here's the story titled in this blog entry.

Cracked #5, October 1958
a: McCartney (Bill Ward)

Bill Ward was a pin-up artist for magazines from the same publisher as Cracked, so he became their glamour girl artist. Note that the T has been manually changed to an E. They probably changed it so the pronunciation would be understood. Back then they would have had to have a typographer in a union write out all the dialog instead of right here like I'm doing now and it would have been very expensive to fix.

inside front cover to MAD #43, December 1958, illustrated by Kelly Freas. Parody of American Express Travellers' Cheques.

from Scenes We Never Got to See in MAD #42, November 1958, by Albert Meglin and Wallace Wood

Here's the trailer in French for those who understand the language. (I took four years in high school and I don't remember much myself).