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Roger Vadim Roger Vadim Plemiannikov ( ; 26 January 1928 – 11 February 2000 ) was a French screenwriter , film director and producer , as well as an author , artist and occasional actor . His best-known works are visually lavish films with erotic qualities , such as And God Created Woman ( 1956 ) , Barbarella ( 1968 ) , and Pretty Maids All in a Row ( 1971 ) . Early life . Vadim was born Roger Vadim Plemiannikov ( sometimes transliterated Plemiannikoff ) in Paris . His father , Igor Nikolaevich Plemiannikov ( ) , a White Russian military officer and pianist , had emigrated from imperial Russia and became a naturalized French citizen . He was a vice consul of France to Egypt , stationed in Alexandria , later posting to Mersin , Turkey as a consul . Vadims mother , Marie-Antoinette ( née Ardilouze ) , was a French actress . Although Vadim lived as a diplomats child in Northern Africa and the Middle East in his early youth , the death of his father when Vadim was nine years old caused the family to return to France , where his mother found work running a hostel in the French Alps , which was functioning as a way-station for Jews and other fugitives fleeing Nazism . Vadim studied journalism and writing at the University of Paris , without graduating . Film career . Marc Allégret . At age 19 , he became assistant to film director Marc Allégret , whom he met while working at the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt , and for whom he worked on several screenplays . He was an assistant director on Allegrets Blanche Fury ( 1948 ) , a commercially unsuccessful melodrama which Allegret made for a British company in English . Vadim was one of several writers on Allegrets French-British The Naked Heart ( 1950 ) , aka Maria Chapdelaine , starring Michèle Morgan , as well as serving as assistant director . It was shot in French and English versions . Blackmailed ( 1951 ) was another film Allegret directed in England , starring Mai Zetterling and Dirk Bogarde ; Vadim was credited as one of the writers . He was also one of several writers on Allegrets , La demoiselle et son revenant ( 1952 ) . Vadim did the screenplay and commentary for a documentary , Le gouffre de la Pierre Saint-Marti ( 1953 ) and was assistant director on Allegrets Julietta ( 1953 ) , a popular romance with Jean Marais , Dany Robin and Jeanne Moreau . Vadim wrote Allegrets Loves of Three Queens ( 1954 ) , with Hedy Lamarr . Brigitte Bardot . Vadim had begun a relationship with model-actress Brigitte Bardot . She was given a good role in a drama directed by Allegret , School for Love ( 1953 ) , aka Futures Vendettes , starring Jean Marais ; Vadim wrote the script with Allegret . The film was a commercial disappointment . However the next collaboration between Allegret , Bardot and Vadim , Plucking the Daisy ( 1956 ) , aka Mamselle Striptease , was a huge success at the French box office . So too was Naughty Girl ( 1956 ) , with Bardot . This allowed Vadim to get backing for his first movie as director . Vadims first film as director was based on an original story of his , And God Created Woman ( 1956 ) . Starring Bardot , Curt Jurgens and Christian Marquand and produced by Raoul Levy it was not only a major success in France , but around the world , and established Bardot as a world icon . Vadim followed it with No Sun in Venice ( 1957 ) starring Françoise Arnoul and Marquand , produced by Levy , which was considerably less popular than And God Created Woman . Levy , Vadim and Bardot were to make Paris by Night with Frank Sinatra but Bardot refused to spend months in the US and Sinatra felt likewise about filming in France . Instead Vadim made The Night Heaven Fell ( 1958 ) , starring Bardot and Stephen Boyd . He was one of several writers on Allegrets popular comedy , Be Beautiful But Shut Up ( 1958 ) , starring Mylène Demongeot . Vadimss next film was an adaptation of the book Les liaisons dangereuses ( 1959 ) , which he wrote and directed . It starred Moreau , Gérard Philipe ( in his final film ) and Annette Stroyberg , a Danish model who became Vadims second wife . The film became a huge hit in France . Stroyberg was also in the vampire film Blood and Roses ( 1960 ) . They divorced shortly afterwards . Vadim was reunited with Bardot for Please , Not Now ! ( 1961 ) , a popular comedy . He was one of several directors of the anthology film,The Seven Deadly Sins ( 1962 ) . Vadim began a relationship with a young Catherine Deneuve . She starred in a segment of the anthology film Tales of Paris ( 1962 ) , which was written by Vadim and directed by Allegret . She starred in a film Vadim helped write and produce , And Satan Calls the Turns ( 1962 ) , and was also Vice and Virtue ( 1963 ) , which Vadim directed . Vadim had another success writing and directing for Bardot , Love on a Pillow ( 1962 ) , but found less favour with Nutty , Naughty Chateau ( 1963 ) starring Monica Vitti . Jane Fonda . Vadim tried another adaptation of a classic erotic text , La Ronde ( 1964 ) . He said at the time , When I make a picture about relations between people , something erotic comes through ; I cant help it ! But sex has been an inspiration , the greatest inspiration , since art exists . One of the films many stars was rising American actress Jane Fonda who began a romantic relationship with Vadim . Vadim devised a vehicle for Fonda , The Game Is Over ( 1966 ) , based on a book by Émile Zola . Shot in French and English versions , it was very popular in France , though less so in the US . Dino de Laurentiis wanted Fonda to star in a science fiction sex comedy , Barbarella ( 1968 ) and she agreed provided Vadim could direct . Following this he directed Fonda in a segment of the omnibus horror film Spirits of the Dead ( 1968 ) along with her brother Peter Fonda . During his marriage to Fonda , Vadim would accompany her back to the US periodically while she made movies there . He and Fonda broke up and Vadim directed Pretty Maids All in a Row ( 1971 ) for MGM , starring Rock Hudson and Angie Dickinson . It was a commercial disappointment . Later career . Vadim returned to France . He wrote and directed Hellé ( 1972 ) , starring Gwen Welles , which was a flop . He was reunited with Bardot for Don Juan , or If Don Juan Were a Woman ( 1973 ) , which was Bardots penultimate movie and a commercial disappointment . Not particularly successful either were Charlotte ( 1974 ) , and Game of Seduction ( 1976 ) with Sylvia Kristel and Nathalie Delon . He directed a TV movie Bonheur , impair et passe ( 1977 ) , starring Danielle Darrieux . In the 1980s Vadim based himself in the US . He directed Night Games ( 1980 ) , where he attempted to make a star of Cindy Pickett , with whom he became romantically involved . He directed a caper film in Canada , The Hot Touch ( 1981 ) , starring Marie-France Pisier . Back in France he wrote and directed Surprise Party ( 1983 ) . He directed episodes of Faerie Tale Theatre ( 1984 ) and Deadly Nightmares ( 1986 ) . Vadim attempted to recapture his former success with a new version of And God Created Woman ( 1988 ) , with Rebecca de Mornay . Very different from the original – it only really used the same title – it failed critically and commercially . His final years were spent working in TV , where he directed Safari ( 1991 ) and wrote and directed Amour fou ( 1993 ) , starring Marie-Christine Barrault who became his final wife . She was also in directed La Nouvelle tribu ( 1996 ) and its sequel Un coup de baguette magique ( 1997 ) , which Vadim wrote and directed . Personal life . Romances . Vadim was famous for his romances/marriages to beautiful actresses . In his mid-30s , he lived with the teenaged Catherine Deneuve , by whom he had a child , Christian Vadim , prior to his marriage to Fonda . He was also involved with American actresses Margaret Markov and Cindy Pickett . Later , he cohabited with screenwriter Ann Biderman for several years , announcing their engagement in 1984 , but the couple never wed . Marriages . - Brigitte Bardot , 20 December 1952 – 6 December 1957 ( divorced ) - Annette Stroyberg , 17 June 1958 – 14 March 1961 ( divorced ) ; 1 daughter ( Nathalie ) - Jane Fonda , 14 August 1965 – 16 January 1973 ( divorced ) ; 1 daughter ( Vanessa ) - Catherine Schneider , 13 December 1975 – 10 June 1977 ( divorced ) ; 1 son ( Vania ) - Ann Biderman , Partner ( engaged but never wed ) , California - Marie-Christine Barrault , 21 December 1990 – 11 February 2000 ( his death ) He also had two stepsons from his marriage to Schneider ( younger sister of novelist Dominique Schneidre and heiress to the Schneider-Creusot steel and armaments firm ) as well as adult stepchildren from Barraults first marriage to Daniel Toscan du Plantier , also a friend of Vadims , who called him a happy man . He was someone in whom there was so much satisfaction to the end of his life . The films merely reflected his happiness . Nathalie , his eldest child , told Fonda biographer Patricia Bosworth : Jane was the love of my fathers life . Writing . In addition to Vadims theatre and film work , he also wrote several books , including the memoirs Memoires du Diable , Le Gout du Bonheur : Souvenirs 1940–1958 and an autobiography , Dune étoile à lautre ( From One Star to the Next ) as well as a tell-all about his most famous exes , Bardot , Deneuve & Fonda : My Life with the Three Most Beautiful Women in the World , published in 1986 . My attitude is that if this book makes me a little money it will be a tiny compensation for all the money I helped those actresses make , Vadim explained . He also wrote several plays and books of fiction , including Lange affamé . Death . Vadim died of cancer at age 72 on 11 February 2000 . Ex-wives Bardot , Fonda , Schneider and Stroyberg were all in attendance at his funeral . He is buried at St . Tropez Cemetery . Filmography . Writer or director . - The Naked Heart ( 1950 ) - Blackmailed ( 1951 ) - En Effeuillant la Marguerite/Mademoiselle Striptease ( 1956 ) - And God Created Woman ( 1956 ) - Sait-on jamais ? ( 1957 ) - 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 ) - Love on a Pillow ( 1962 ) - Un château en Suède/Castle in Sweden ( 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 ( 1968 ) - Pretty Maids All in a Row ( 1971 ) - Hellé ( 1972 ) - Don Juan ou Si Don Juan était une femme ( 1973 ) - La jeune fille Assassinée/The Murdered Young Girl ( 1974 ) - Une femme fidèle ( 1976 ) - Bonheur , impair et passe ( 1977 ) - Jeux de Nuit/Night Games ( 1980 ) - The Hot Touch ( 1981 ) - Surprise Party ( 1983 ) - Faerie Tale Theatre ( 1984 TV , segment Beauty and the Beast ) - The Hitchhiker ( 1986 TV , segment Dead Mans Curve ) - And God Created Woman ( 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 ) Actor . - School for Love ( 1955 ) - Sweet and Sour ( 1963 ) - Ciao ! Manhattan ( 1972 ) - The Assassinated Young Girl ( 1974 ) - Rich and Famous ( 1981 ) - Into the Night ( 1985 ) External links . - Image of Rock Hudson , Gene Roddenberry , and Roger Vadim posing with women cast members for motion picture Pretty Maids All in a Row , California , 1970 . Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive ( Collection 1429 ) . UCLA Library Special Collections , Charles E . Young Research Library , University of California , Los Angeles .