Jackie Collins (1937-2015) en 1957 sur sa MG MGA Roadster 1957 (elle était la sœur cadette de l'actrice Joan Collins). - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.

Jackie Collins’ Hollywood Wives (1985)

The Stud (1978)

I'm surprised that the wholesome The Real Thing and Legs & Co had anything to do with this piece of 70's softcore nonsense from the Collins sisters.

Barnacle Bill (aka All at Sea), Italian lobby card (fotobusta). 1957

Joan Collins by Patrick Lichfield, 1979.

Hollywood Wives has been given new life with a 40th anniversary reissue, but it was long ago guaranteed immortality. A gilt-edged, leather-bound copy of Jackie Collins’s novel has pride of place on the schadenfreude bookshelf. Anyone seeking assurance that rich and famous people are absolutely miserable and obsessed with petty grievances can take Hollywood Wives into the bubble bath.

It might be awkward to celebrate Hollywood Wives‘ milestone birthday just as movie actors and writers are taking to the picket line, but the story of these characters and SAG-AFTRA, if set in the present day, would be just as free from actual moviemaking as the original novel.

Sadie LaSalle would be trying to get Buddy Hudson on TikTok, with Buddy left wondering whether a doppelgänger account was run by his twin or simply a deepfake. Gina Germaine would be pitching a reality series, Ross Conti would be mulling offers from Pornhub, and Montana Gray would be on the picket line trying to answer reporters’ questions about whether it really counts as striking when she’s never had a screenplay actually produced.

While the foibles of Collins’s characters remain recognizable, the world they lived in is long gone.

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The Stud (1978)

by Quentin Masters

Jackie Collins, OBE (4 Oct 1937 - 19 Sept 2015) ✍🕊

Season Six! How is this even possible!

The season launches today with what we thing is an absolute banger—a trailblazer episode about Jackie Collins, legend, juggernaut, author and lady boss, who was gone too soon.

We’re so lucky to have had a chance to talk to Collins’s daughters, Rory Green and Tiffany Lerman, who were immensely generous with their time and storytelling, to talk about their mother’s life and work. We love this conversation, and are so grateful to Ms. Green and Ms. Lerman for their time.