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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 55344" data-attributes="member: 7">What&#039;s funny is the A&amp;E biography done on Joan Collins some years ago seems to believe that her part as Angela in Rally &#039;Round the Flag, Boys! was her &quot;best role to date&quot;. And for you trivia lovers out there---Collins wasn&#039;t 20th Century-Fox&#039;s first choice for this role, either. Supposedly, Jayne Mansfield had been assigned the role, and legend has it, she had received a script and was scheduled for wardrobe fittings when she learned that she was replaced with Collins, whom she had co-starred with in The Wayward Bus in 1957. From what I know, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward felt Mansfield wasn&#039;t &quot;right&quot; for the part. I&#039;ve seen pieces of the film (mostly Joan&#039;s scenes), and I personally think Mansfield would have been better in the role. Collins, though, isn&#039;t bad by any means. It&#039;s just Collins didn&#039;t quite fit the role to me. If Mansfield had played it, I think it would have been more over-the-top and satirical, and I think that&#039;s what the role needed. Joan&#039;s performance was more sedate than Mansfield&#039;s would have been I believe.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 55344, member: 7"] What's funny is the A&E biography done on Joan Collins some years ago seems to believe that her part as Angela in [I]Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! [/I]was her "best role to date". And for you trivia lovers out there---Collins wasn't 20th Century-Fox's first choice for this role, either. Supposedly, Jayne Mansfield had been assigned the role, and legend has it, she had received a script and was scheduled for wardrobe fittings when she learned that she was replaced with Collins, whom she had co-starred with in [I]The Wayward Bus [/I]in 1957. From what I know, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward felt Mansfield wasn't "right" for the part. I've seen pieces of the film (mostly Joan's scenes), and I personally think Mansfield would have been better in the role. Collins, though, isn't bad by any means. It's just Collins didn't quite fit the role to me. If Mansfield had played it, I think it would have been more over-the-top and satirical, and I think that's what the role needed. Joan's performance was more sedate than Mansfield's would have been I believe. [/QUOTE]

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