The Movie: Barbarella (1968)
What Is It?: Jane
Fonda zips through space in sexy outfits and engages in self-consciously campy
antics with David Hemmings, Anita Pallenberg, and Marcel Marceau. Maybe you
can’t expect great cinema from Roger Vadim’s comic-book adaptation, but you can
expect marvelously dated music and special effects, a truly scary sequence
involving killer dolls, and unforgettable turns from Fonda, Hemmings, and
“Pretty Pretty” Pallenberg (though, not her voice).
Why Today?: On
this day in 1928, Roger Vadim is born.
