Joan Collins Beauty Book.

First published in 1980 this was the book all women wanted to read, if only for the secrets of how to look like Joan!
An LP record was released at the time of the book (yes this was the 80's when everything was on vinyl). Fans will know that Joan updated her beauty book in 1994 under the UK title "My Secrets" and again in 2002 she released "Joan's Way - Looking Good, Feeling Great". These will both be featured in future posts.

Below: 3 photos (6"x4") which featured in the book illustrating different looks.

1976 Photos

Two photos of Joan from 1976.

TV: Fallen Angels

In 1974 Joan starred alongside Sacha Distel and Susannah York in the 1974 production of Noel Coward's play Fallen Angels.
Joan played Jane Banbury and Susannah was Julia Sterroll, who have been best friends and married for 5 years. They are waiting for the arrival of Maurice, played by Sacha, who they both had affairs with. Their husbands away for the weekend they dine and drink champagne while reminiscing about the past, unaware of the hysterical chaos to come.

Other cast members included Lally Bowers and Michael Aldridge, both who would appear with Joan in Tales of The Unexpected

TV Times - December 12, 1974.

Dynasty: Pictures

Joan as Alexis in one of the first Dynasty Press Session Photo's which was never published.



Following Joan's first appearance as Alexis, it wasn't long before she started appearing on magazine covers worldwide.






This Dutch issue called Veronica from May 1982 had the cast photo on the cover and a two page article inside.







With my collection of magazines continuously growing it was in September 2002, realising there was very little on the web, I created a site called JConthecover, which displayed magazines Joan had appeared on from 1951 - 2006. It proved very popular as it also featured articles and also UK newspapers when Joan had appeared on the front page. It ran until 2008 - which was my 25th Anniversary as a collector.

The idea of having a website featuring my collection had been on the "drawing board" for sometime, I realised that I had to include content from JConthecover site, and a few months later my new site, http://www.joancollinscollection.com/ was launched.




The magazine on the left is a copy of TV Guide from America dated 23 October 1982 and features Joan with Linda Evans on the cover. Inside was a 4 page article.

I will be featuring other magazines from my collection in future posts.

Welcome to my blog, which highlights my collection of Joan Collins memorabilia, now in it's 26th year.

Above, is probably the first photo I puchased of Joan, back in 1983 - but how did this collection start in the first place?

It was Sunday 22nd May 1983 and the Sunday People, a UK newspaper were running an article written by her then estranged husband, the late Ron Kass ... a tribute to the most ravishing 50 year old in the world.

I have to admit that I never watched Dynasty until Joan joined the show in the second season. Her dramatic court room entrance during the trial of Blake Carrington (John Forsythe) when she lifted the veil and removed her dark glasses .... I, like the rest of the world said "Wow!!"

From that moment I decided to start what I thought would be a "small" collection and the days and months that followed Joan was in the newspapers all the time.