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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...
...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...
...Vadim. Pet's own life has been filled with more familial traumas. She had a mother who taught her to sing and a stage father who pushed her onto a BBC wartime show called It's All Yours, followed by her own Pet's Parlour. Dad eventually parlayed all that into an almost endless J. Arthur Rank contract. At Rank, she played in 25 films including a kind of female Andy Hardy role in the Huggett series. Thanks to a restraining bra and taut parental control of her public image (no dates or off-the-shoulder dresses...
...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...
...visiting him in Tucson, Stormy MacDonald slashed his wrists, then shot himself. Mother, girlfriend, best man ? all suicides. Intimations of mortality began to cling to Peter. Nothing he said seemed edited by his brain. His sister had gath- ered a barefoot-in-St.-Tropez reputation as Director Roger Vadim's newest protegee. When Henry objected to Jane and Roger's live-in arrangements, Peter announced, "Father was living in Malibu and the only difference was that he'd send his chick home at night. His duplicity blew our minds...