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Brigadoon
Brigadoon is a 1947 Lerner and Loewe musical about a Scottish village that reappears one day every hundred years. Opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre for 581 performances; 1954 MGM film with Gene Kelly; no major Broadway revival since 1980.
Brigadoon (film)
Brigadoon (film): 1954 MGM musical directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, and Cyd Charisse, adapted by Alan Jay Lerner from the 1947 Broadway show about a Scottish village appearing one day every hundred years; shot on soundstages in CinemaScope.
Brigandine
Brigandine: European torso armor of small metal plates riveted inside a fabric or leather cover, also called brigantine or corazzina; used from the mid-14th to early 17th century, derived from the coat of plates.
Brigands & Breadknives
Brigands & Breadknives, also titled Brigands and Breadknives, is Travis Baldree's 2025 third Legends & Lattes novel, following rattkin bookseller Fern on a road adventure with elf bounty hunter Astryx One-Ear and goblin Zyll; it is more action-heavy and less cozy than its predecessors.
Briggflatts
Briggflatts is a five-part autobiographical long poem by the British poet Basil Bunting, published in 1966, celebrating the Northumbrian landscape and hailed as his masterpiece and a key text of British modernism.
Brighella
Brighella: commedia dell'arte stock character, the cunning first zanni and scheming servant from Bergamo, opposite Arlecchino; green-trimmed livery, bearded half mask, later reformed by Goldoni.
Bright (film)
Bright (2017) is a Netflix urban fantasy action film directed by David Ayer, written by Max Landis, starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton as human and orc L.A. cops; made for a reported $90 million, panned by critics but popular with audiences, its sequel was canceled.
Bright as Blasphemy
Bright as Blasphemy is Chevelle's tenth studio album, released August 15, 2025 on Alchemy Recordings/BMG. Self-produced by Pete and Sam Loeffler after leaving Epic Records, its nine 39-minute tracks critique government, religion, and technology.
Bright Eyes (band)
Bright Eyes is an Omaha, Nebraska indie rock band founded in 1995 by singer-songwriter Conor Oberst with Mike Mogis and later Nate Walcott, known for sad, poetic albums on Saddle Creek and, since 2020, Dead Oceans.
Bright Future (Adrianne Lenker album)
Bright Future (2024) is Adrianne Lenker's fifth solo album, on 4AD, recorded fully analogue on tape at Double Infinity with Philip Weinrobe, Mat Davidson, Josefin Runsteen, and Nick Hakim; Metascore 87.
Bright Future (アカルイミライ) (2003 film)
Bright Future (アカルイミライ, Akarui Mirai) is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2003 Japanese drama, in Cannes competition, about alienated workers Yuji and Mamoru, a murdered boss, and a poisonous red jellyfish multiplying in Tokyo's canals.
Bright Lights, Big City (film)
Bright Lights, Big City is a 1988 American drama film directed by James Bridges and starring Michael J. Fox, adapted by Jay McInerney from his 1984 novel.
Bright Star (film)
Bright Star (2009) is Jane Campion's romantic drama about poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), based on Andrew Motion's Keats biography; Cannes 2009 selection, 83% on Rotten Tomatoes. Not the Steve Martin musical.
Bright Star (musical)
Bright Star is a 2016 bluegrass and Americana stage musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell about Alice Murphy and Billy Cane in North Carolina, premiered at the Old Globe, nominated for three Tonys.
Bright Sunny Skies
Bright Sunny Skies (Yanyangtian, also translated as Bright Clouds) is a three-volume novel by the Chinese writer Hao Ran, published 1964–1966 and set in a suburban Beijing agricultural cooperative in 1957.
Bright Young Things (film)
Bright Young Things is Stephen Fry's 2003 directorial debut, a British comedy-drama adapting Evelyn Waugh's 1930 novel Vile Bodies about 1930s London socialites, gossip culture and celebrity, starring Emily Mortimer and Stephen Campbell Moore; the real Bright Young Things were the tabloid-named 1920s party set.
Brightburn
Brightburn is a 2019 American superhero horror film directed by David Yarovesky, starring Elizabeth Banks and Jackson A. Dunn as a Kansas couple and their alien son.
Brighter Days Ahead
Brighter Days Ahead is a 2025 short film co-directed by Ariana Grande and Christian Breslauer for Eternal Sunshine Deluxe; elderly Peaches relives four memories at Brighter Days Inc., each erased afterward; it won the 2025 MTV VMA for Video of the Year.
Brighton Rock (2010 film)
Brighton Rock (2010) is Rowan Joffe's debut feature, adapting Graham Greene's 1938 novel, set in 1964 Brighton amid Mods and Rockers. Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Helen Mirren star; second adaptation after the 1947 Boulting film.
Brighton Rock (novel)
Brighton Rock (novel), Greene's 1938 Catholic crime thriller (Le Rocher de Brighton) set in Brighton: teenage gangster Pinkie Brown covers up reporter Hale's murder; Ida Arnold pursues him; filmed 1947 and 2010.
Brighton Sharbino
Brighton Sharbino (Brighton Rose Sharbino), American actress born 2002 in Flower Mound, Texas; known for Lizzie Samuels on The Walking Dead, young Abby Sciuto on NCIS, Miracles from Heaven, and 2.5M+ social followers.
Brigid Brannagh
Brigid Brannagh (born 1972), also credited as Brigid Walsh, is an American actress from San Francisco known for Pamela Moran in Army Wives and Stacey Yorkes in Marvel's Runaways.
Brigit Forsyth
Brigit Forsyth (Brigit Dorothea Connell, 1940-2023), Scottish actress best known as Thelma in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?; also Sharon and Elsie, Playing the Field, Still Open All Hours, and stage work.
Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (1934-2025), French actress and singer, star of Et Dieu... créa la femme (1956) and Le Mépris, retired 1973, founded the Fondation Brigitte Bardot in 1986.
Brigitte Calls Me Baby
Brigitte Calls Me Baby is a Chicago alt-rock band formed in 2022, fronted by Wes Leavins, named for his pen-pal letters to Brigitte Bardot; albums The Future Is Our Way Out (2024) and Irreversible (2026) on ATO Records.
Brigitte Lahaie
Brigitte Lahaie (Brigitte Lucie Jeanine Vanmeerhaeghe), born 1955 in Tourcoing, is a French actress and radio host, star of French adult cinema 1976–1980, Jean Rollin collaborator, and daily presenter on RMC then Sud Radio.
Brigitte Lin (林青霞)
Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia (林青霞), born 1954, Taiwanese actress of about 100 films (1973–1994): Chiung Yao romances in Taiwan, androgynous wuxia roles in Hong Kong including Dongfang Bubai in Swordsman II, Golden Horse Best Actress for Red Dust and 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Brigitte Nielsen
Brigitte Nielsen, born Gitte Nielsen (1963, Rødovre, Denmark), Danish model-turned-actress and singer; Red Sonja, Rocky IV's Ludmila Drago (reprised in Creed II), marriage to Stallone, and reality-TV revival.
Brigsby Bear
Brigsby Bear is a 2017 American comedy-drama, Dave McCary's feature debut, written by Kevin Costello and Kyle Mooney, who stars as James Pope, a kidnapping victim whose favorite TV show was made only for him. Premiered at Sundance 2017; released by Sony Pictures Classics July 28, 2017.
Brihadisvara Nandi
The Brihadisvara Nandi is a colossal monolithic sculpture of Nandi, the bull mount of Shiva, at the Brihadisvara Temple in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, carved from a single black granite block about 6 meters long.