Claude Autant-Lara, 'Love is my Profession', 1958

Starring opposite Jean Gabin in 'Love is my Profession', Bardot plays the role of Yvette, who committed a robbery. Married French lawyer Andre (Gabin) defends her case successfully and subsequently falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him. This scene was censored and did not appear in the version that was released.

The still photographs for this film were done by the legendary still photographer Walter Limot. At the age of twenty, Walter Lichtenstein became the first still photographer for the German cinema industry and worked for many directors including Fritz Lang, Kurt Bernhardt and Georg Wilhelm Pabst. After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933 he fled to Paris and adopted the name Limot. He continued to work in French cinema and documented over 120 films during his career. He specialized in reportage work and also photographed many personalities of the time such as Jean Cocteau, Colette and Le Corbusier.

stamped on reverse
CINEMONDE ARCHIVES

also inscribed on reverse
Franco Interlonghi