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Actor: Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda won Best Actress for Klute and Coming Home, the former playing a call girl whose therapy sessions the film uses as narration.

Her 1972 visit to North Vietnam, and a photograph taken on an anti-aircraft gun, produced a hostility that has followed her for fifty years and which she has repeatedly apologised for. Barbarella, They Shoot Horses Don’t They and 9 to 5 fill out the range, and her exercise videos were a genuine cultural phenomenon.

Jane Fonda as Bree Daniels in a dimly lit scene, her face partially shadowed, framed through a doorway or corridor in aCharles Cioffi

Klute (1971) Review

Klute (1971) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The film is called Klute and it is not about Klute. Jane Fonda won the Academy Award for a performance built out of therapy sessions and a tape recorder,…

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Barbarella (1968) film posterAnita Pallenberg

Barbarella (1968)

Barbarella is the late-1960s French-Italian science fiction sex comedy that became a cult artifact more for its visual identity than for its plot. Jane Fonda plays Barbarella, a forty-first-century astronaut sent to recover the scientist Durand-Durand, whose Positronic Ray weapon…

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