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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 276078" data-attributes="member: 7">I knew I'd step on someone's toes with that comment. Honestly, I wasn't trying to be mean, but I had to call it the way that I see it. I was once a VERY BIG Joan Collins fan. She was the whole reason that I started watching DYNASTY in the beginning. I lived and breathed DYNASTY for such a long time, and it was all because of Joan Collins. I think she was superb as Alexis; no one could've played her any better. Not Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Raquel Welch, or any others that might've played her had Joan not stepped in. That part was tailor made for her. She was deliciously evil and I ate up every minute of it. Aside from DYNASTY, however, I must confess that I'm not a major fan of her work. I've seen a good portion of her other work and it hasn't compelled me to seek anything more really. I personally own The Joan Collins Collection, a five-DVD box set of her films prior to 1960. I'd admit that SEA WIFE (1957) and RALLY ROUND THE FLAG, BOYS (1958) are enjoyable, with the former being one of her more demanding roles during her youth. She played a nun lost at sea with the likes of Richard Burton and Basil Sydney. I'd also say she was good in THE WAYWARD BUS (1957), even if she seemed a little too young for the part. I like her and Jayne Mansfield appearing together -- that's like a match made in the heavens inside my mind. Her TV guest gigs have sometimes been fun: I liked her as Roseanne's snotty cousin Ronnie in ROSEANNE, and she was funny as a designer on WILL & GRACE. I'd say her career pre-DYNASTY had potential to develop had she had the proper training coupled with good roles, scripts, and directors. But she didn't get those types of roles. She was basically just a contract player for Fox in the late 1950s, and they didn't seem terribly interested in developing her. Their interest seemed to fizzle relatively fast, and by 1960, she was being loaned to cheap European vehicles that failed to utilize her. Joan was the "Queen of the B's" in the 1960s and 1970s, at a time when she starred in a succession of B-movies, one of the cheesiest being EMPIRE OF THE ANTS (1972). She also appeared in the anthology film TALES FROM THE CRYPT (1973). When her career dropped to an all-time low, she decided to borrow for her novelist sister Jackie Collins and star in two adaptations of her novels, although critics dismissed her performances as Fontaine Khaled as mere soft-core exploitation. There's little else of her work that I'd deem noteworthy. [ATTACH=full]27814[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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