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Roger Vadim Plemiannikov (French: [ʁɔʒe vadim]; 26 January 1928 – 11 February 2000) was a French screenwriter, film director and producer, as well as an author, artist and occasional actor. [1] His best-known works are visually lavish films with erotic qualities, such as And God Created Woman (1956), Blood and Roses (1960), The Game Is ...
Roger Vadim was born Roger Vadim Plemiannikov, in Paris, France, on January 26, 1928, to Igor Nikolaevich Plemiannikov and Marie-Antoinette. His mother was a French actor, while his father was a “white émigré” military officer.
Feb 12, 2000 · Roger Vadim, the French film director who turned Brigitte Bardot into an overnight star and potent sex symbol in his first movie, ''And God Created Woman,'' died today in a Paris hospital. He...
Feb 12, 2000 · Vadim, whose real name was Roger Vadim Plemiannikov, had long struggled with cancer. He died in a Paris hospital, a local radio station said. In Vadim’s personal and professional lives alike,...
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Vadim was born on January 26, 1928, in Paris. He was the son of Igor Plemiannikov, a Russian diplomat. His mother, Marie-Antoinette Plemiannikov, was a photographer. Vadim used his middle name professionally and dropped the surname Plemiannikov. He was nine years old when he witnessed his father's death from a heart attack, an event that reduced hi...
After several years as a minor actor and unsuccessful screenwriter, Vadim secured financing for his own film, which would feature his young wife. In 1955, he released And God Created Woman,starring Bardot as a woman who marries in order to escape life in an orphanage. She does not love her new husband, however, and seduces his youngerbrother. The f...
Vadim made two more films with Bardot in the 1950s, No Sun in Venice (also known as When the Devil Drives) and The Night Heaven Fell. While both films managed to display Bardot in various stages of undress and included provocative sex scenes, neither achieved the success of their first film together. By the time he released The Night Heaven Fell,hi...
Vadim fathered a child with Deneuve and the two were engaged to be married. His next wife, however, was American actress Jane Fonda. Fonda appeared in Vadim's adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's play La Ronde and his modern adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, La Curee, (also known as The Game is Over). Although the first film features a screenplay by J...
Before his divorce from Fonda, Vadim had relocated to Hollywood. He remained there to direct Rock Hudson as a homicidal high school counselor in 1971's Pretty Maids All in a Row and reunited with Bardot for Ms. Don Juan (also known as If Don Juan Were a Woman), in which she plays the seductive counterpart to the infamous womanizer. Vadim spent the ...
Lyon, Christopher, The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers,St. James Press, 1984. Vadim, Roger, Bardot Deneuve Fonda: My Life with the Three Most Beautiful Women in the World,Simon and Schuster, 1986. VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever,Visible Ink Press, Gale Research, 1994. Wilhelm, Elliot, editor, VideoHound's World Cinema: The Adve...
"Review of And God Created Woman," Chicago Sun Times,http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert-reviews/1988/03/282266.html. "Roger Vadim," Contemporary Authors Online,http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC, 2002. □
Roger Vadim Plemiannikov (French: [ʁɔʒe vadim]; 26 January 1928 – 11 February 2000) was a French screenwriter, film director and producer, as well as an author, artist and occasional actor. [1]
Jun 17, 2024 · Roger Vadim, whose full name was Roger Vadim Plemiannikov, was born in Paris on January 26, 1928, and died in his hometown on February 11, 2000, at the age of 72. He was a French...
