Viva Maria! is a 1965 Franco-Italian adventure comedy romance film. It features Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton, and Paulette Dubost. Somewhere in Central America in 1907: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a singer in a circus. She decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, she unintentionally invents the strip-tease and makes the circus famous.