Trivia

Brigette Bardot agreed to perform nude for the first time in years as a favor for her ex-husband Roger Vadim, the man who helped launch her career.

After casting Barbara Leigh in Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971), which was filmed in America, Roger Vadim invited her to move to Paris to star in this. She did and had a great time living there, but after six months, this film still hadn't started production. She grew homesick and moved back to America. Vadim cast Jane Birkin to replace her.

"If Don Juan is not my last movie, it will be my next to last," said Brigitte Bardot during filming.

Ann Zacharias (16) who appears in this movie is seen topless.

Roger Vadim said in an interview after the film came out: "My attitude to women is accepted today in a way that it wasn't when I started out as director. But today women overreact - they pretend to be free on an intellectual and sexual level but because of our Christian traditions sex is always associated with guilt. Now however it's possible for a woman to have the same relationship with sex as a man - a man who is a lover can be a Don Juan whereas women like that were always considered whores or femmes faciles (easy women). But I think a woman can be free without being a whore. A female Don Juan can exist nowadays without a sense of guilt."