![]() Vadim's first film as director was based on an original story of his, And God Created Woman (1956). This allowed Vadim to get backing for his first movie as director. So too was Naughty Girl (1956), with Bardot. However the next collaboration between Allegret, Bardot and Vadim, Plucking the Daisy (1956), aka Mam'selle Striptease, was a huge success at the French box office. The film was a commercial disappointment. She was given a good role in a drama directed by Allegret, School for Love (1953), aka Futures Vendettes, starring Jean Marais Vadim wrote the script with Allegret. Vadim had begun a relationship with model-actress Brigitte Bardot. Vadim wrote Allegret's Loves of Three Queens (1954), with Hedy Lamarr. Vadim did the screenplay and commentary for a documentary, Le gouffre de la Pierre Saint-Marti (1953) and was assistant director on Allegret's Julietta (1953), a popular romance with Jean Marais, Dany Robin and Jeanne Moreau. He was also one of several writers on Allegret's, La demoiselle et son revenant (1952). Blackmailed (1951) was another film Allegret directed in England, starring Mai Zetterling and Dirk Bogarde Vadim was credited as one of the writers. ![]() It was shot in French and English versions. Vadim was one of several writers on Allegret's French-British The Naked Heart (1950), aka Maria Chapdelaine, starring Michèle Morgan, as well as serving as assistant director. He was an assistant director on Allegret's Blanche Fury (1948), a commercially unsuccessful melodrama which Allegret made for a British company in English. Film career Marc Allégret Īt age 19, he became assistant to film director Marc Allégret, whom he met while working at the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt, and for whom he worked on several screenplays. Vadim studied journalism and writing at the University of Paris, without graduating. Although Vadim lived as a diplomat's child in Northern Africa and the Middle East in his early youth, the death of his father when Vadim was nine years old caused the family to return to France, where his mother found work running a hostel in the French Alps, which was functioning as a way-station for Jews and other fugitives fleeing Nazism. Vadim's mother, Marie-Antoinette (née Ardilouze), was a French actress. He was a vice consul of France to Egypt, stationed in Alexandria, later posting to Mersin, Turkey as a consul. His father, Igor Nikolaevich Plemiannikov ( И́горь Никола́евич Племя́нников), a White Russian military officer and pianist, had emigrated from the Russian Empire and became a naturalized French citizen. ![]() Vadim was born Roger Vadim Plemiannikov (sometimes transliterated Plemiannikoff) in Paris. ![]()
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