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  2. May 10, 2021 · By Frank F. / May 10, 2021 5:06 pm EST. Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski were one of the most glamorous and popular couples in Hollywood in the Swinging Sixties. She was the glamorous, doll-like rising star of movies like the cult classic "Valley of the Dolls" and "Don't Make Waves."

  3. Roman Polanski with Sharon Tate in 1968. In 1959, Polanski married actress Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass. She starred in his short film When Angels Fall. The couple separated in 1961 and divorced the next year. Throughout the 1960s, Polanski dated a succession of actresses including Carol Lynley, Jacqueline Bisset, Jill St. John and Michelle Phillips.

  4. Jun 2, 2014 · Forty-five years after Sharon Tate’s brutal murder, in 1969, when she was just 26 years old and eight months pregnant with her first child with husband, Roman Polanski, the people who knew...

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    The two were first introduced in the mid-1960s by producer Martin Ransohoff, who was attempting to help Tate snag a role in Polanski's upcoming film. The actress relayed to her sister, Debra, that she and Polanski didn't immediately hit it off, as revealed in the book Sharon Tate: Recollection,compiled by Debra. According to the tribute, Polanski r...

    After their bizarre introduction, Tate landed the role of Sarah Shagal in the Polanski-directed film The Fearless Vampire Killers. Polanski also costarred in the film as Alfred, Tate's romantic interest.

    Despite the less-than-idyllic meeting, the pair got married on Jan. 20, 1968, in London. Their marriage was riddled with wild rumors — ranging from infidelity to forced threesomes. Tate was reportedly deeply in love with Polanski, who was nine years her senior, though she was also extremely intimidated by the director. In the book Sharon Tate: A Li...

    On Aug. 9, 1969, Tate, who was pregnant with the couple's son, was murdered along with four othersin the home she shared with Polanski. Tate and her friends — Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski and Steven Parent — were murdered by members of Manson's cult as part of Manson's attempted plan to start a race war called "Helter Skelter." T...

    Polanski was in London when he received the news that his pregnant wife had been killed. His friend Andy Braunsberg, who was with Polanski when he got the life-changing phone call, said the Rosemary's Baby director was inconsolable. "He literally unraveled in front of my eyes," Braunsberg said in Sharon Tate: A Life."He disintegrated." Polanski con...

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  5. Roman Polanski is a Polish filmmaker who has been a fugitive from the U.S. criminal justice system, since 1978, after pledging guilty to statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl. He fled the country to France before he could be properly sentenced. In 2009, when he was arrested in Zurich, Switzerland, in relation to his U.S. arrest warrant, many famous filmmakers, actors and artists signed a ...

  6. Apr 2, 2014 · In 1969, Polanski's pregnant wife, actress Sharon Tate, was brutally murdered by members of Charles Manson's cult, and in 1977, Polanski was indicted on six criminal counts for having...

  7. Mini Bio. Roman Polanski is a Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few truly international filmmakers. Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933.