He had previously been married to actress Brigitte Bardot, whom he had directed in And God Created Woman, and another actress, Annette Stroyberg Vadim also had a child with French screen star Catherine Deneuve. LIFE’s story on the actress paid much attention to the movie’s director, Vadim, who was now Fonda’s husband. (Watching the original theatrical trailer for the movie feels like a piece of sci-fi time travel itself). Fonda didn’t make the cover then, but the magazine still gushed in the headline over “Henry Fonda’s lovely, leggy daughter.” The story continued in that frothy vein: “The girl’s look-soft, wheaten-blond hair, a dazzling smile, lovely long legs-is emphatically American and it is a look that knocks Frenchmen dead.”įonda let the world know she was all grown when she was back on the cover of LIFE for its Maissue, which trumpeted her performance in the outlandish cult classic Barbarella. Tall Story made more of a thud than a splash.īut in 1964 Jane Fonda was featured in LIFE again, when she was in France to film Circle of Love, directed by Roger Vadim.
Jane played a cheerleader her costar was Anthony Perkins, best remembered for his performance as Norman Bates in Psycho, released that same year. At that point Jane was just making her film debut in a 1960 romantic comedy called Tall Story. The line was a reference to Greek mythology which cast Henry Fonda as Zeus and Jane as Athena. Henry Fonda had starred in such films as The Grapes of Wrath and Twelve Angry Men, among dozens of others, and LIFE heralded Jane’s joining the family business with a fanfare that was positively Olympian: “Like an ancient goddess who was born full-grown out of her father’s head, Jane Fonda at 22 has sprung up almost magically as a full-fledged and versatile actress.” 21, 1937, was pictured alongside her famous father when she made the cover of LIFE for the first time in the Feb. Jane Fonda’s appearances in LIFE magazine from 1960 to 1971 track the transformations of an actress finding her voice.įonda, born on Dec.
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