The night the Master groped Judy Campbell, Jane Birkin’s mother
Sadly, I didn’t know Jane Birkin, the Anglo-French actress, singer and beauty, who died in Paris in mid-July at the age of 76. I had admired her since I was a teenager and saw her, naked, in Antonioni’s seminal Sixties movie, Blow-Up. Later, I got to know the star of the film, David Hemmings (1941- 2003). He told me that Birkin only agreed to get her kit off in Blow-Up because her husband at the time, John Barry, taunted her, saying she wouldn’t dare. David explained that Jane was very self-conscious about her diminutive bust, but claimed he had reassured her with the line, ‘Who’ll be looking at your breasts, darling, when your face is so lovely?’ Happily, I did know Jane Birkin’s mother, the actress Judy Campbell (1914-2004), and she was very beautiful, too. She had no misgivings about her bust. She told me that, during the Second World...
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