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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Candidate for the year's most beautiful unwed mother: French Film Star Catherine Deneuve, 28, who last week had her second illegitimate child-a daughter, as yet unnamed. Her first, eight-year-old Christian, is the son of Director Roger Vadim. Among the earliest to congratulate the new mother was Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni, with whom she shares a Paris apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 12, 1972 | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

...best way to appreciate what is good in Roger Vadim's Pretty Maids All in a flow is to make your way through some of the nonsense listed above; it's a terrible price to pay and may not be worth it. But by comparison, Pretty Maids is truly comic relief - a kinky, funny, often on-target sat ire about libidinous teen-agers and their equally eager elders. Director Vadim constantly undercuts himself with the kind of sleazy eroticism (many shots of panties and nubile cleavage) that has made him a cinematic Flo Ziegfeld, but his decidedly black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shedding Darkness On the Youth Culture | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

Very much the disgruntled husband, French Film Producer-Director Roger Vadim, 42, frankly described his marriage to Jane Fonda, 32, as "not a very satisfactory arrangement." The onetime husband of Brigitte Bardot and father of Catherine Deneuve's son said he really "prefers the company of men. If I had to choose three persons with whom to make a round-the-world cruise, they would all be male if we spent at least one-half of the time in the harbor." Despite his disapproval of Jane's crusading for Indians and against the Viet Nam War, Vadim said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 17, 1970 | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

...game. Her main purpose was to try to free herself from the molasses morass of Disney pictures (The Three Lives of Thomasind) and from the "sweet, soppy, boring" debutante roles in which she was stuck. At one point, a columnist quoted her as saying she needed "somebody like Roger Vadim to bring me to full bloom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Hampshire Saga | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

...knew that she was subject to intermittent depressions, was unable to cope with booking arrangements, and that "sometimes I would need to be treated as a child." Claude knew just how and when to do it. But in the process, says Pet, "he didn't do a Vadim on me" (a reference to the Svengali role French Director Roger Vadim played with his women until he ran up against Jane Fonda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: And the Pet Goes On | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

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