Roger Vadim

Biography

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Vadim was born as Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov in Paris. His Belarusian father, Igor Plemiannikov, had immigrated from Ukraine and became a naturalized French citizen, and was a vice consul of France to Egypt. Vadim became a stage actor at the age of 16. In 1947 he became assistant writer to film director Marc Allégret.

Romances

Vadim was celebrated for his romances/marriages to beautiful actresses. He lived with Catherine Deneuve, by whom he had a child, Christian Vadim, prior to his marriage to Fonda. He wrote about these in his 1986 book Bardot, Deneuve & Fonda.

Candy Darling, of Andy Warhol's entourage, wrote of an alleged affair with Vadim in her diary, My Face for the World to See. In addition to Vadim's theater and film work, he also wrote several books, including his autobiography, D'une étoile à l'autre (From One Star to the Next).

Marriages

   * Brigitte Bardot, 20 December 1952 – 6 December 1957 (divorced)

   * Annette Strøyberg, 1958–1960 (divorced); 1 child (Nathalie)

   * Jane Fonda, 14 August 1965 – 16 January 1973 (divorced); 1 child (Vanessa)

   * Catherine Schneider, 1975–1977 (divorced); 1 child (Vania)

   * Marie-Christine Barrault, 1990 - his death

Filmography

   * The Naked Heart (1950)

   * Blackmailed (1951)

   * En Effeuillant la Marguerite/Mademoiselle Striptease (1956)

   * And God Created Woman (1956)

   * Sait-on jamais? (1957)[1]

   * Sois belle et tais-toi/Be Beautiful but Shut up (1957)

   * Les Bijoutiers du Clair de Lune/The Night Heaven Fell (1958)

   * Les liaisons dangereuses/Dangerous Liaisons (1959)

   * Blood and Roses (1960)

   * La Bride sur le cou/Please Not Now! (1961)

   * Les Sept péchés capitaux/Seven Capital Sins (1962)

   * Les Parisiennes/Beds and Broads (1962)

   * Le repos du guerrier/Love on a Pillow (1962)

   * Un château en Suède/Castle in Sweden (1963)

   * Sweet and Sour/Dragées au Poivre (1963)

   * Le vice et la vertu/Vice and Virtue (1963)

   * La Ronde/Circle of Love (1964)

   * La curée / The Game is Over (1966)

   * Spirits of the Dead (1968)

   * Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy (1968)

   * Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)

   * Hellé (1972)

   * Ciao! Manhattan (1972)

   * Don Juan 73 (1973)

   * La jeune fille Assassinée/The Murdered Young Girl (1974)

   * Une femme fidèle/Game of Seduction (1976)

   * Jeux de Nuit/Night Games (1980)

   * Hot Touch (1981)

   * Surprise Party (1983)

   * Faerie Tale Theatre (1984 TV, segment "Beauty and the Beast")

   * The Hitchhiker (1986 TV, segment "Dead Man's Curve")

   * And God Created Woman (remake) (1988)

   * Safari (1991, TV movie)

   * Amour fou (1993, TV movie)

   * La Nouvelle tribu (1996, TV mini-series)

   * Mon père avait raison (1996, TV movie)

   * Un coup de baguette magique (1997, TV movie)

wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Vadim