This Is Joan Collins - BBC Documentary

[WarriorsFan]

Joan was one of the most famous women of the 1980s. Perhaps even the most photographed woman of that decade. At the height of her powers bigger than Madonna or Lady Diana.

At the height of Dynasty, Joan Collins had a place in popular culture on the level of Princess Diana and Madonna.

The impact she must have had on women then looking as she did at 49/50 can't be overlooked. At that time that was generally seen as old. Women were deemed over the hill. If you look at the sitcom The Golden girls, which was airing at the same time as DYNASTY those women were supposedly in their early 50s when the show started and were supposed to be old ladies. Rue McClanahan is a year younger than Joan Collins, Rue looked amazing on The Golden Girls, I have to say but is seen as older. The other ladies were all around the same age, about 9 years older than Joan in real life and even though Bea Arthur and Betty White were playing younger than they were, there characters were still old ladies compared to Alexis.

There was an episode of The Golden Girls where Rue McClanahan's character referred to Joan Collins as "that woman belongs in a wax museum".

she was probably the most famous television actress of the 1980s.

Joan Collins was to the first half of the 1980s what Jennifer Aniston was to the second half of the 1990s.

 

[Jock Ewing Fan]

What's the best movie Joan ever made?

THE VIRGIN QUEEN? I'd say it's SEVEN THIEVES (1960).

I would say "The Bravados" with Gregory Peck

The Bravados (1958) ⭐ 7.0 | Drama, Western

1h 38m | PG

www.imdb.com

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

THIS IS JOAN COLLINS is about as good a documentary as Joan is going to get, as those things go.

She's so silly and rinkydink, really. So highschool drama club. But that's sort of her appeal.

And that informed Alexis, in a way: so full of affectation and lowbrow limitations, but she so badly wants to "make it" -- and then she does! In a rinkydink show like DYNASTY in a rinkydink decade, so full of affectation and lowbrow limitations.

But everything's pretty. And it almost works. If not quite.

There have been worse careers.

 

[ClassyCo]

I finally watched this last week, and I was thoroughly impressed. Without exaggerating, I honestly found it to be one of the finest documentaries on a Hollywood celebrity that I've seen. I had expected it to be whitewashed, but Joan is actually pretty candid about her personal and professional lives and the ups and downs of her career.

I've honestly thought doing a little rewatch, just in case there was anything that I missed. I wish other older Hollywood celebrities would have the chance to donate documentary like this in their lives. I'd love to see one of Kim Novak and Mamie Van Doren.

 

[Toni]

THIS IS JOAN COLLINS is about as good a documentary as Joan is going to get, as those things go.

She's so silly and rinkydink, really. So highschool drama club. But that's sort of her appeal.

And that informed Alexis, in a way: so full of affectation and lowbrow limitations, but she so badly wants to "make it" -- and then she does! In a rinkydink show like DYNASTY in a rinkydink decade, so full of affectation and lowbrow limitations.

But everything's pretty. And it almost works. If not quite.

There have been worse careers.

What´s that arm thingie, a cloned arm or an apnea machine? What are hinting with it?

 

[Ked]

What´s that arm thingie, a cloned arm or an apnea machine? What are hinting with it?

I think that's just a fold in her gigantic sleeve. XD

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I'd love to see one of Kim Novak and Mamie Van Doren.

Mamie was never really a star. So I'm not sure she'd warrant quite the same treatment. She was basically an Anna Nicole-Smith for her day, but at least Anna Nicole had the good sense of strategy to die young and in a classily melodramatic way.

Like Jayne Mansfield.

 

[ClassyCo]

Mamie was never really a star. So I'm not sure she'd warrant quite the same treatment.

Apparently, she's preparing her documentary.

Documentary on Hollywood Blonde Bombshell Mamie Van Doren in the Works (EXCLUSIVE)

Production has started on a documentary about Hollywood blonde bombshell Mamie Van Doren.

variety.com

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Plotting with Cliff --- how long has this been going on?

 

[ClassyCo]

I'd love to see one of Kim Novak

So Kim Novak does have one, but it's only 76 minutes long.

 

[Ked]

So Kim Novak does have one, but it's only 76 minutes long.

She truly was so, so beautiful.