(Based on Magforum blog magforum.wordpress.com) Joan Collins was all over the media in late summer 2007 with the appearance of a biography by Graham Lord.The Daily Mail of 20 August 2007 started a serialisation of the book, beginning with her wild days in Hollywood (she went over there in 1954 at the age of 21). It reminds us that Fleet Street christened her ‘Britain’s Bad Girl’ and ‘The Coffee Bar Jezebel’.
There is a tale told about Collins at one of the health farms. It had a sauna used by the men in the morning and the women in the afternoon. The men refused to leave one day and a queue of women developed. La Collins appeared, pushed to front and shouted ‘You lot had better leave or I’ll drop my towel and come in there naked.’ The men all meekly trapsed out!
The first three pictures below are from pocket monthly pin-up magazines Span and 66 in the 1950s and early 1960s when she was at the height of her pin-up powers. The next is from three decades later when editor Richard Barber - a former editor of Woman's Own, Radio Times and Clothes Show - chose her to front the first weekly issue of OK!.
