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Aside From Dynasty: The Joan Collins Thread
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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 289252" data-attributes="member: 7"><p style="text-align: justify">One thing that often pops up in biographies on Joan Collins is the fact that Fox had originally cast her in CLEOPATRA, producer Walter Wanger's pet project. In 1959, the budget was originally set at $2 million, the movie was going to be filmed on Fox's back lot, and was going to star Collins as the Queen of the Nile, Peter Finch as Julius Caesar, and Stephen Boyd as Mark Antony. </p> <p style="text-align: justify"></p> <p style="text-align: justify">But as Fox decided to broaden the production, studio executives hedged their bets by decisioning to replace Collins (a yet-to-proven box office star) with Elizabeth Taylor, then one of the most famous women in America. Taylor signed on to play Cleopatra for a record-breaking salary of $1 million (costly delays eventually had her final pay being around $7 million). </p> <p style="text-align: justify"></p> <p style="text-align: justify">Here is a clip of Collins' screen test for CLEOPATRA: </p> <p style="text-align: justify"></p> <p style="text-align: justify">[MEDIA=youtube]uqXgWlkCSEU[/MEDIA]</p> <p style="text-align: justify"></p> <p style="text-align: justify">Evidently the two women were at cordial with one another. I remember Collins saying around the time that Elizabeth died that they were good friends and she hated being called "Liz".</p> <p style="text-align: justify"></p><p>[ATTACH=full]29804[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 289252, member: 7"] [JUSTIFY]One thing that often pops up in biographies on Joan Collins is the fact that Fox had originally cast her in CLEOPATRA, producer Walter Wanger's pet project. In 1959, the budget was originally set at $2 million, the movie was going to be filmed on Fox's back lot, and was going to star Collins as the Queen of the Nile, Peter Finch as Julius Caesar, and Stephen Boyd as Mark Antony. But as Fox decided to broaden the production, studio executives hedged their bets by decisioning to replace Collins (a yet-to-proven box office star) with Elizabeth Taylor, then one of the most famous women in America. Taylor signed on to play Cleopatra for a record-breaking salary of $1 million (costly delays eventually had her final pay being around $7 million). Here is a clip of Collins' screen test for CLEOPATRA: [MEDIA=youtube]uqXgWlkCSEU[/MEDIA] Evidently the two women were at cordial with one another. I remember Collins saying around the time that Elizabeth died that they were good friends and she hated being called "Liz". [/JUSTIFY] [ATTACH type="full"]29804[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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