The actress talks about her showbusiness family, her five husbands and why she never ignores her sister Jackie's advice
I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress. She taught me to sing, tap dance and even do the splits – which I can still do. "Oh, Grandma, what bendy legs you have!" I squealed when, at Christmas at the Collins abode, she performed her famous splits to a packed room. It was a trick she had learned as a dancer and soubrette while touring the capes of South Africa with her two sisters, entertaining troops on leave from the Boer war. My father, Joe, followed her into the business and became a successful variety agent – our house was always full of performers. But he strongly discouraged me from becoming an actress and warned I would be washed up by 23.
My grandmother spoiled my father rotten and he grew...
I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress. She taught me to sing, tap dance and even do the splits – which I can still do. "Oh, Grandma, what bendy legs you have!" I squealed when, at Christmas at the Collins abode, she performed her famous splits to a packed room. It was a trick she had learned as a dancer and soubrette while touring the capes of South Africa with her two sisters, entertaining troops on leave from the Boer war. My father, Joe, followed her into the business and became a successful variety agent – our house was always full of performers. But he strongly discouraged me from becoming an actress and warned I would be washed up by 23.
My grandmother spoiled my father rotten and he grew...
- 10/25/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Olive Films will release the deliciously trashy 1986 television mini-series Sins, starring Dynasty queen Joan Collins, on DVD on June 21.
Joan Collins stars in the 1986 TV mini-series Sins.
Sins tells the long-winded story of Helene Junot (Collins), a woman who survives the horrors of the Nazi occupation of France and suffers a succession of challenges as she rises in the world of fashion, ultimately building her own couture house. Of course, there’s lots of love, lust and betrayal along the way.
Based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Judith Gould, Sins was executive produced by Collins (then at the height of her TV popularity) and her then-husband Peter Holm. The 6½ hour TV “event” was renowned for containing some 85 costume changes for Collins (reportedly a record for a single production). Many of her costumes were designed by Valentino.
Directed by Douglas Hickox, Sins also stars Timothy Dalton (The Tourist...
Joan Collins stars in the 1986 TV mini-series Sins.
Sins tells the long-winded story of Helene Junot (Collins), a woman who survives the horrors of the Nazi occupation of France and suffers a succession of challenges as she rises in the world of fashion, ultimately building her own couture house. Of course, there’s lots of love, lust and betrayal along the way.
Based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Judith Gould, Sins was executive produced by Collins (then at the height of her TV popularity) and her then-husband Peter Holm. The 6½ hour TV “event” was renowned for containing some 85 costume changes for Collins (reportedly a record for a single production). Many of her costumes were designed by Valentino.
Directed by Douglas Hickox, Sins also stars Timothy Dalton (The Tourist...
- 4/8/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Joan Collins and Elizabeth Taylor competed over who could have the most husbands. The 77-year-old actress, who was a close friend of the screen legend, who died at Cedars-Sinai hospital aged 79 on Wednesday, March 23, has revealed her divorce from Peter Holm in 1987 prompted Elizabeth, who was married eight times to seven different men, to write a letter boasting about her own conquests.
She joked, "The last time I got a divorce, she sent me a note and she said, 'I'm still ahead by three.' I sent one back saying, 'Don't worry Liz, I'm going to catch up.' I actually didn't call her Liz. I always called her Elizabeth because she didn't like being called Liz. But I think people have a huge amount of respect for her. And the thing that was so amazing about her is that most women really liked her."
Joan, who is now married...
She joked, "The last time I got a divorce, she sent me a note and she said, 'I'm still ahead by three.' I sent one back saying, 'Don't worry Liz, I'm going to catch up.' I actually didn't call her Liz. I always called her Elizabeth because she didn't like being called Liz. But I think people have a huge amount of respect for her. And the thing that was so amazing about her is that most women really liked her."
Joan, who is now married...
- 3/25/2011
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
Veteran British star Joan Collins regrets her four failed marriages, calling them "my filth".
The celebrated actress, 75, insists husband number five, Percy Gibson, is the love of her life - and he'll be her last.
But some of her exes were big mistakes, made during periods of "madness".
Recalling each of her former marriages, Collins says, "The first time (Maxwell Reed), I was 18 and much too young. My second (Anthony Newley) and third (Ronald Kass), I had children from them."
But it's husband number four, Peter Holm, who comes in for the heaviest criticism.
The actress snarls, "(He) was a Swede and it (marriage) came in a moment of insanity... I was going through a madness phase."
Collins and Holm were married for less than two years.
The actress married her fifth husband, theatre boss Gibson, in 2002.
The celebrated actress, 75, insists husband number five, Percy Gibson, is the love of her life - and he'll be her last.
But some of her exes were big mistakes, made during periods of "madness".
Recalling each of her former marriages, Collins says, "The first time (Maxwell Reed), I was 18 and much too young. My second (Anthony Newley) and third (Ronald Kass), I had children from them."
But it's husband number four, Peter Holm, who comes in for the heaviest criticism.
The actress snarls, "(He) was a Swede and it (marriage) came in a moment of insanity... I was going through a madness phase."
Collins and Holm were married for less than two years.
The actress married her fifth husband, theatre boss Gibson, in 2002.
- 4/23/2008
- WENN
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