There’s a touch of tenderness in Joan Collins’ voice when mentioning her old friend, superstar Marilyn Monroe. Already a star in the UK, British-born Joan had just landed in 1950s Los Angeles having secured a contract with 20th Century Fox.
“It was Marilyn who warned me against the ‘wolves’ of Hollywood,” she recalls. “We were at one of Gene Kelly’s weekly parties.”
Joan was soon typecast in the UK as ‘Britain’s bad girl’, playing the part convincingly in popular films such as 1952’s I Believe In You.
