lavenderblue19 Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Joan Collins wrote her autobiography- it's called Past Imperfect an Autobiography. That maybe the only place you might find out. Link to post Share on other sites
Dargo2 Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 > to me she doesn't look like the offspring of two english parents. Hmmmm...well remember James, not ALL Brits look like Terry-Thomas(could never understand that whole hyphen thing there???) and/or Margaret Rutherford, dude!!! LOL Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 23, 2013 Author Share Posted May 23, 2013 Here is an image of Joan Collins with her parents (at far side of table next to her) Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 23, 2013 Author Share Posted May 23, 2013 Guy Madison decides to take a nap on the set Link to post Share on other sites
wouldbestar Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Great photo of Steve Forrest. From his bio, he was a really decent and likable guy as well as a good actor. My favorite role of his was in *Rogue Cop.* I'm still in awe of that Raymond Burr photo and that Bill Williams and he had the same birthday. At least Barbara Hale only had one date to remember. Link to post Share on other sites
bagladymimi Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Merle Oberon was not born in England, but in Bombay. And as far as her parents are concerned, she wasn't exactly sure where her mother was born nor was she sure who her father actually was. I think Joan Collins background was a whole lot different than Oberon's. And in that picture, it is not only the makeup that makes her look like she was part Indian but even her skin color is darker (maybe suntan?) Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 24, 2013 Author Share Posted May 24, 2013 HAPPY BIRTHDAY PEDRO GONZALEZ GONZALEZ (1925 - 2006) LILI PALMER (1914 - 1986) WILLIS BOUCHEY (1907 - 1977) Link to post Share on other sites
jamesjazzguitar Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Thanks for that correction on Merle. What I meant to say was that Merle was known as a British actress to American audiences, but one could see that her ethnic background wasn't 100% British. So when I saw that picture of Joan I wonder if she had a similar type background. Appears she didn't but the look she has in that picture made me wonder. Now I wonder if that picture had a purpose. e.g. did her agent have her take it to try to promote her for exotic roles? She was tested for the role of Cleopatra (of course Liz got it!), but that type of role calls for a certain type (well that is only somewhat true because if Gene Tierney can play Asian roles, anything is possible in Hollywood). Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 24, 2013 Author Share Posted May 24, 2013 Newlyweds Joel McCrea and Frances Dee hide away Link to post Share on other sites
bagladymimi Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Right James. And I think you are probably right about that photo. I can just imagine her agent suggesting that type of makeup in order to promote her for a role like Cleopatra. I also think that Joan hoped for bigger roles in films than what she ended up with. She wasn't a bad actress, but somehow to me she was missing something. Maybe if Elizabeth Taylor hadn't been around, some of her roles would have gone to Joan. I can't see her cast as Maggie in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, but I can certainly see her in Butterfield 8. Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 24, 2013 Author Share Posted May 24, 2013 Lew Ayres is sandwiched between his wife Ginger Rogers and her mom Lela Link to post Share on other sites
wouldbestar Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 I've read that *Cleopatra* was supposed to be a much smaller scale production than what we ended up getting. Joan Collins would have been Cleo with Stephen Boyd as Marc Antony and Peter Finch as Caesar. Hollywood history would have been so much different had this occured. Hopefully Joan would have had better makeup than in *Land of the Pharaohs* and based on her work there I think she might have pulled it off with the right direction. I don't think the final result was all that good; perhaps less might have equaled more. Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 25, 2013 Author Share Posted May 25, 2013 Birthday gal Lili Palmer at a gala event with Rita Hayworth Link to post Share on other sites
vickeez Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 Is that Debbie Reynolds (side on) behind Lili Palmer? Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 25, 2013 Author Share Posted May 25, 2013 It could be, Vickeez. Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 25, 2013 Author Share Posted May 25, 2013 HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLAUDE AKINS (1926 - 1994) JEANNE CRAIN (1925 - 2003) STEVE COCHRAN (1917 - 1965) BILL 'BOJANGLES' ROBINSON (1878 - 1949) Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 25, 2013 Author Share Posted May 25, 2013 Shirley Temple and birthday boy Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson in a still from "The Little Colonel" Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 26, 2013 Author Share Posted May 26, 2013 HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES ARNESS (1923 - 2011) JAY SILVERHEELS (1912 - 1980) JOHN WAYNE (1907 - 1979) Link to post Share on other sites
Dothery Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 A great picture of James Arness, Mongo. I remember a story Doc Stone told us about his having helped him get the contract he wanted from CBS, who were trying to stiff him for a raise. Arness was so angry he was disrupting shooting, until Doc took him aside and told him he was attacking the wrong people. He told him to disappear at the end of the season ... just go away and not let them find him, not even tell his agent where he was going. Arness took his advice, and when they were on hiatus he went to Tokyo and to Norway and every time the network rep caught up with him he was off somewhere else. Finally they gave up and gave him what he wanted. Doc knew they wouldn't let him go. Without him "Gunsmoke" would have been nothing. Link to post Share on other sites
twister Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 I think James Arness and Peter Graves were brothers, although I saw not a scintilla of similarity. Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 26, 2013 Author Share Posted May 26, 2013 Thanks, Dothery. Interesting story. Twister, they were brothers. Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 27, 2013 Author Share Posted May 27, 2013 Birthday boy James Arness with Billy Curtis who portrayed him shrinking in the final scene of "The Thing" Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 27, 2013 Author Share Posted May 27, 2013 HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOUIS GOSSETT JR. is 77 today CHRISTOPHER LEE is 91 today WILLIE BEST (1916 - 1962) VINCENT PRICE (1911 - 1993) LUCILE WATSON (1879 - 1962) Link to post Share on other sites
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