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Obituary: Roger Vadim Vadim's And God Created Woman not only made Brigitte Bardot an international star but took the continental film into mainstream cinema
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The Independent - London
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February 14, 2000
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THE FRENCH film director Roger Vadim, who discovered Brigitte
Bardot and expanded the boundaries of sexual explicitness on screen
with his first film And God Created Woman, once said, "You wouldn't
ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an
ugly woman." Bardot was the first of his five wives. Another was Jane
Fonda, who starred in his exotic spoof Barbarella, and Catherine
Deneuve was his mistress. Though Vadim won praise as a film and
theatre director, actor and writer, it is for his passionately
sensual film work with a succession of beautiful women that he will
be remembered.
Of Ukrainian-French descent, he was born Roger Vadim Plemiannikov
in 1928 in Paris, the ...
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