 1928 - 2000 (72 years) Has 2 ancestors and one descendant in this family tree.
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| Name |
Roger Vadim Plemiannikov |
| Birth |
26 Jan 1928 |
Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, République française  |
| Gender |
Male |
| FamilySearch ID |
G4CR-Z7P |
| Death |
11 Feb 2000 |
Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, République française |
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| Person ID |
I116823 |
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| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Family 2 |
Annette Susanne Stroyberg, b. 7 Dec 1936, Rynkeby, Odense, Kongeriget Danmark d. 12 Dec 2005, København, Hovedstaden, Kongeriget Danmark (Age 69 years) |
| Marriage |
17 Jun 1958 |
| Divorce |
14 Mar 1961 |
| Family ID |
F34555 |
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| Last Modified |
6 Mar 2025 |
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| Notes |
- He was a French screenwriter, film director and producer, as well as a n a uthor, artist and occasional actor. His best-known works are visuall y lav ish films with erotic qualities, such as And God Created Woman (195 6), Ba rbarella (1968), and Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971).
Corneliu Vadim Tudor chose his middle name and pseudonym after Roger Vad i m.
Early life
Roger Vadim Plemiannikov was born in Paris. His father, Igor Nikolaevi c h Plemiannikov, a White Russian military officer and pianist, had emigr at ed from Ukraine and became a naturalized French citizen, and was a vic e c onsul of France to Egypt, stationed in Alexandria. His mother, Marie- Anto inette (née Ardilouze), was a French writer and essayist. Although V adi m lived as a diplomat's child in Northern Africa and the Middle Eas t in h is early youth, the death of his father, when Vadim was nine year s old, c aused the family to return to France, where his mother found wor k runnin g a hostel in the French Alps, which was functioning as a way-st ation fo r Jews and other fugitives fleeing Nazism.
Vadim studied journalism and writing at the University of Paris, witho u t graduating.
Film career
At age 19, he became assistant to film director Marc Allégret, whom he m e t while working at the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt, and for whom he worke d o n several screenplays. He was an assistant director on Allegret's Bla nch e Fury (1948), a commercially unsuccessful melodrama which Allegret m ad e for a British company in English.
Vadim was one of several writers on Allegret's French-British The Nake d H eart (1950), aka Maria Chapdelaine, starring Michèle Morgan, as wel l as s erving as assistant director. It was shot in French and English ve rsions . Blackmailed (1951) was another film Allegret directed in England , starr ing Mai Zetterling and Dirk Bogarde; Vadim was credited as one o f the wri ters. He was also one of several writers on Allegret's, La demo iselle e t son revenant (1952).
Vadim did the screenplay and commentary for a documentary, Le gouffr e d e la Pierre Saint-Marti (1953) and was assistant director on Allegret 's J ulietta (1953), a popular romance with Jean Marais, Dany Robin and J eann e Moreau. Vadim wrote Allegret's Loves of Three Queens (1954), wit h Hed y Lamarr.
Vadim had begun a relationship with model-actress Brigitte Bardot. She w a s given in a good role in a drama directed by Allegret, School for Lov e ( 1953), aka Futures Vendettes, starring Jean Marais; Vadim wrote the s crip t with Allegret. The film was a commercial disappointment.
However the next collaboration between Allegret, Bardot and Vadim, Pluck i ng the Daisy (1956), aka Mam'selle Striptease, was a huge success at t h e French box office. So too was Naughty Girl (1956), with Bardot. Thi s al lowed Vadim to get backing for his first movie as director.
Vadim's first film as director was based on an original story of his, A n d God Created Woman (1956). Starring Bardot, Curt Jurgens and Christia n M arquand, it was not only a major success in France, but around the wo rld , and established Bardot as a world icon.
Vadim followed it with No Sun in Venice (1957) starring Françoise Arno u l and Marquand, which was considerably less popular than And God Creat e d Woman. More popular was The Night Heaven Fell (1958), starring Bardo t a nd Stephen Boyd. He was one of several writers on Allegret's popula r come dy, Be Beautiful But Shut Up (1958), starring Mylène Demongeot.
Vadims's next film was an adaptation of the book Les liaisons dangereus e s (1959), which he wrote and directed. It starred Moreau, Gérard Phili p e (in his final film) and Annette Stroyberg, a Danish model who becam e Va dim's second wife. The film became a huge hit in France.
Stroyberg was also in the vampire film Blood and Roses (1960). They divo r ced shortly afterwards.
Vadim was reunited with Bardot for Please, Not Now! (1961), a popular co m edy. He was one of several directors of the anthology film,The Seven De ad ly Sins (1962).
Vadim began a relationship with a young Catherine Deneuve. She starre d i n a segment of the anthology film Tales of Paris (1962), which was wr itte n by Vadim and directed by Allegret. She starred in a film Vadim hel ped w rite and produce, And Satan Calls the Turns (1962), and was also Vi ce an d Virtue (1963), which Vadim directed.
Vadim had another success writing and directing for Bardot, Love on a Pi l low (1962), but found less favour with Nutty, Naughty Chateau (1963) st ar ring Monica Vitti.
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 p eo ple, something erotic comes through; I can't help it! But sex has bee n a n inspiration, the greatest inspiration, since art exists." One of th e fi lm's many stars was rising American actress Jane Fonda who began a r omant ic relationship with Vadim.
Vadim devised a vehicle for Fonda, The Game Is Over (1966), based on a b o ok by Émile Zola. Shot in French and English versions, it was very popu la r in France, though less so in the US.
Dino de Laurentiis wanted Fonda to star in a science fiction sex comed y , Barbarella (1968) and she agreed provided Vadim could direct. Followi n g this he directed Fonda in a segment of the omnibus horror film Spiri t s of the Dead (1968) along with her brother Peter Fonda.
During his marriage to Fonda, Vadim would accompany her back to the US p e riodically while she made movies there. He and Fonda broke up and Vadi m d irected Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) for MGM, starring Rock Hudso n an d Angie Dickinson. It was a commercial disappointment.
Vadim returned to France. He wrote and directed Hellé (1972), starring G w en Welles, which was a flop. He was reunited with Bardot for Don Juan , o r If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973), which was Bardot's penultimate mov ie a nd a commercial disappointment.
Not particularly successful either were Charlotte (1974), and Game of Se d uction (1976) with Sylvia Kristel and Nathalie Delon. He directed a T V mo vie Bonheur, impair et passe (1977), starring Danielle Darrieux.
In the 1980s Vadim based himself in the US. He directed Night Games (198 0 ), where he attempted to make a star of Cindy Pickett, with whom he bec am e romantically involved. He directed a caper film in Canada, The Hot T ouc h (1981), starring Marie-France Pisier. Back in France he wrote and d irec ted Surprise Party (1983). He directed episodes of Faerie Tale Theat re (1 984) and Deadly Nightmares (1986).
Vadim attempted to recapture his former success with a new version of A n d God Created Woman (1988), with Rebecca de Mornay. Very different fro m t he original – it only really used the same title – it failed critical ly a nd commercially.
His final years were spent working in TV, where he directed Safari (199 1 ) and wrote and directed Amour fou (1993), starring Marie-Christine Bar ra ult who became his final wife. She was also in directed La Nouvelle tr ib u (1996) and its sequel Un coup de baguette magique (1997), which Vadi m w rote and directed.
Personal life
Romances
Vadim was famous for his romances/marriages to beautiful actresses. In h i s mid-30s, he lived with the teenaged Catherine Deneuve, by whom he h a d a child, Christian Vadim, prior to his marriage to Fonda. He was als o i nvolved with American actress Cindy Pickett. Later, he cohabited wit h scr eenwriter Ann Biderman for several years, announcing their engageme nt i n 1984, but the couple never wed.
He told a story about how he lost his virginity at age 16 when he spen t t he summer in Normandy. An older girl took a fancy to him. Outdoors th at n ight, she introduced him to the art of love and what amazed him mos t wa s that what Hemingway had written came true: "the earth moved unde r him. " Not until somewhat later did he realize that Allied ships were b ombardi ng the coast in preparation for the D-Day invasion.
Marriages
Brigitte Bardot, 20 December 1952 – 6 December 1957 (divorced)
Annette Stroyberg, 17 June 1958 – 14 March 1961 (divorced); 1 daughter ( N athalie)
Jane Fonda, 14 August 1965 – 16 January 1973 (divorced); 1 daughter (Van e ssa)
Catherine Schneider, 13 December 1975 – 10 June 1977 (divorced); 1 son ( V ania)
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 (heiress to th e S chneider-Creusot steel and armaments firm) as well as adult stepchild re n from Barrault's first marriage to Daniel Toscan du Plantier, als o a fri end of Vadim's, who called him "a happy man. He was someone in wh om ther e was so much satisfaction to the end of his life. The films mere ly refle cted his happiness." Nathalie, his eldest child, told Fonda biog rapher Pa tricia Bosworth: "Jane was the love of my father's life."
Writing
In addition to Vadim's theatre and film work, he also wrote several book s , including the memoirs "Memoires du Diable", "Le Gout du Bonheur: Souv en irs 1940–1958" and an autobiography, D'une étoile à l'autre (From On e Sta r to the Next) as well as a tell-all about his most famous exes, Ba rdot , Deneuve & Fonda: My Life with the Three Most Beautiful Women in th e Wor ld, published in 1986. "My attitude is that if this book makes m e a littl e money it will be a tiny compensation for all the money I help ed those a ctresses make", Vadim explained. He also wrote several plays a nd books o f fiction, including L'Ange Affame.
Death
Vadim died of cancer at age 72 on 11 February 2000. He was survived by h i s widow, Marie-Christine Barrault, and his four children (Nathalie, Van es sa, Christian and Vania). Ex-wives Bardot, Fonda, Schneider and Stroyb er g were all in attendance at his funeral. He is interred at St. Trope z Cem etery.
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