20 Old Hollywood Romances That Ran the Studio System

Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim marked a bridge between classic Hollywood glamour and the more liberated, provocative cinema of the 1960s. Vadim had already shaped the image of Brigitte Bardot; with Fonda, he helped turn her into a European-style sex symbol through films like Barbarella. Their marriage was stylish, controversial, and very of its moment. It pointed toward a new Hollywood, less buttoned-up, more political, more experimental, and much less afraid of scandal.