JOAN COLLINS - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 152554

JOAN COLLINS
Small color publicity photograph advertising Joan Collins first novel, Prime Time.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Alan/Joan Collins" on verso. Color, 5x7. Photograph by Gary Bernstein. Facsimile signature at lower left background. ©1988. Promotion for her first novel, Prime Time (1988). Verso is imprinted: "'Prime Time/The Hollywood Novel/only Joan Collins Could Write". After publishing Prime Time, Collins, the sister of author Jackie Collins, also wrote several other novels (Love & Desire & Hate, Infamous, Star Quality and Misfortune's Daughters). She has also written two autobiographies, Past Imperfect (1978) and Second Act (1996) and several lifestyle books. In 1996, Collins made news when she sued Random House over a $2 million advance on two novels, which the book publisher claimed were "substandard". After a dramatic performance on the witness stand, the New York judge ruled in her favor. Best known for her role as Alexis Morell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan (1981-1989) on the TV series, Dynasty, British actress Joan Collins, daughter of a London theatrical booking agent, made her show business debut in a production of The Doll's House at age nine. After debuting in British films in 1951 (in an un-credited role in Lady Godiva Rides Again), she made an auspicious American debut as an Egyptian temptress in Land of the Pharoahs (1955). This assignment led to a contract with 20th Century-Fox, where, despite a few good dramatic parts (Girl on the Red Velvet Swing, 1955) and an adroit comic characterization in Rally Round the Flag, Boys (1958), she was written off by critics as decorative but nothing more. Collins' role on Dynasty changed all that. At the beginning of the 1985-1986 season, she had the star power to demand a raise before returning to work, but she later only appear in 13 of the final season's 22 episodes as producers could not afford to pay her every week. Collins, who has also appeared in made-for-TV movies and miniseries and in guest appearances from 1957-2005, also had recurring roles on the TV "soaps" Pacific Palisades (1997) and The Guiding Light (2002). In 1991, she realized one of her dreams when she debuted on Broadway in Private Lives. Collins is the mother of British news anchor Tara Newley and artist Alexander Newley (by second husband, Anthony Newley) and actress Katyana Kass (by third husband, Ronald S. Kass). Signature side lightly creased at blank corners, lightly soiled at lower right blank margin. Photograph has minor smudges, surface striations and postal impressions (barely visible head on). Fine condition.