Vadim, Roger

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Roger Vadim

born Jan. 26, 1928, Paris, France

died Feb. 11, 2000, Paris

French film director.

After working briefly as a stage actor in the mid-1940s, he began his film career as an assistant on Juliette (1953). He directed and cowrote the highly successful erotic film And God Created Woman (1956), which established his wife, Brigitte Bardot, as a sex symbol. He duplicated this winning formula with two later wives, Annette Stroyberg in Dangerous Liaisons (1959) and Jane Fonda in Barbarella (1968), and his lover, Catherine Deneuve, in Vice and Virtue (1962).

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