18-year-old orphan Juliette's unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St Tropez; her sweet but naïve husband Michel endures beatings, insults, and mambo in his futile attempts to tame her wild ways.

Brigitte Bardot
as Juliette Hardy

Jean-Louis Trintignant
as Michel Tardieu

Curd Jürgens
as Eric Carradine

Jane Marken
as Madame Morin

Jean Tissier
as M. Vigier-Lefranc

Isabelle Corey
as Lucienne

Jacqueline Ventura
as Mme Vigier-Lefranc

Christian Marquand
as Antoine Tardieu

Georges Poujouly
as Christian Tardieu

Jacques Ciron
as Le secrétaire d'Eric