Gregory Peck! Robert Mitchum! Paul Newman! Jack Palance! My Leading Men with Dame Joan Collins!
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Superstar Joan Collins remembers her pre-"Dynasty" days as a western leading lady to good guy Gregory Peck in "The Bravados" and her adventures as a Euro-western star with bad guy Jack Palance. Plus, tough guy Robert Mitchum and smooth as silk Paul Newman are recalled. As a Hollywood starlet and contract player in the 1950s, British actress Joan Collins was given horseback riding lessons. Could she ride? Find out from Joan as she remembers Peck's riding tips and her dangerous location trip to Mexico.
Joan starred in another western called “The Great Adventure” starring Jack Palance and shot in Spain. How does the rough handling she received from Palance compare the tough guy acting style of icon Robert Mitchum in “The Big Sleep?” With lots of leading men over the years, who was Joan’s favorite?
When Dame Joan joined the cast of "Dynasty," the ratings took a huge leap! Was it those dangerous shenanigans between Joan and Linda Evans that made "Dynasty" among the most watched shows on television. Find out from the grand Dame herself in this lively, revealing, and extended conversation with Joan and producer Rob Word from 2015 filmed at The Autry Museum.
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She didn’t take many questions…
But she is still beautiful.
What a special treat for a Sunday morning. Thanks Pard…
Glad you enjoyed it, Alan. Thanks.
Joan Collins a real lady dishing out dirt on Jack Palance and others Thanks Rob.
Such a very lovely and vibrant lady. It's hard to believe she's bumping against 90.
What an honor to do this interview with this legendary leading lady. So grateful she is still with us today on earth. Thank you Rob Word for getting her on the stage. What an awesome interview. She’s so sharp and looks absolutely amazing.
Thanks, Brian. Joan was at the top of her game that day. Funny lady.
Still a looker at almost 90
Yes, she does.
She looks SENSATIONAL ❤️
Absolutely delightful interview but it was too short. Surely she has more to share with us.
Joan Collins is 89. She’s been young and fun forever.
Dame Joan at her best. I feel she would be able to adapt to any situation around her. If not get the stunt double.
I watched "The Bravados" and that was a great western! That was a delightful interview with Joan Collins.
Thanks, Dave. Two good ones.
she's a wonderful story teller
The story of Jack Palance's missing loot reminded me of press coverage for another movie (not a western) shot at the start of the 1980s - the notorious big-budget bomb "Inchon", directed by Bond film veteran Terence Young (who also made the Charles Bronson western "Red Sun"). Production ran over schedule and various cast and crew members either hadn't been paid on time or were due pay, so the film's producer would just show up on set with either bags or suitcases full of cash to be handed out on the spot. Laurence Olivier played General Douglas MacArthur, and supposedly received weekly bonuses - briefcases full of money - on location.
Loved the episode of The Virginian where she played with Rosemarie from the Dick Van Dyke show. She has such great energy. Wonderful interview!!
Great interview Rob. She’ll always remember that to put a stuntman out of work was okay by her. Tho in The Bravado’s she was fantastic on the ridge canyon ride w/ Gregory Peck. Wish she’d done more films w/Gregory Peck. They made a good team acting.
Fantastic insight to these excellent actors. Thank you Dame Joan.
Glad you enjoyed it, Steven. Thanks.
@@AWordonWesterns thanks, Rob! I would love some day to attend one of your sessions live. Big Fan.
Rob, wonderful video we just love Joan and her movies n tv show.
Just watched the Bravado - Gregory Peck - Yummy :) Ms. Collins was delightful in this interview. Thank You again Rob!
Great interview. Joan is funny as well as beautiful. Loved the Jack Palance story.
Thanks, KK
Again, thanks for sharing! Great interview!
Thanks, Foxy. Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for another incredible interview. These are so entertaining and appreciated!
Glad you like them! Thanks.
Always loved Dynasty, even though I'm much more a Western fan, and you are right about how introducing the "Bi***h/ I mean Vixen," it made the show a lot more irresistible. No disrespect for the dead but from the mouths of those who acted with him, Jack Palance was not a really nice man. Sorta had masochistic tendencies. I remember his Oscar acceptance and his famous one handed push up but don't forget that he was 70 or 71 at the time and was still performing push ups at 84. Love Joan Collins, she's a great interview and story teller.
Another great interview Mr. Word, with another great star not often associated with westerns, but showing once again that most actors, especially those in the earlier days, had westerns in their resumes...even English actors! Thanks for another trip down memory lane...
Rob, great throwback, she was a fave of mine in Dynasty
Rob thanks again!
Gr8 content as always
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Thank you 🙌
Hey Rob been watching your vids a few years now and I’m used to you getting a lot of stars and biggies to interview by now, but I still think it’s quite a coup to get Dame Joan. Wish it was longer! Thanks!
Me, too, Joe. Guess I'll have to have her back. Thanks.
Another interesting interview. The Bravados is my favorite Gregory Peck Western, and Dame Joan performed her role quite well. Many thanks, Rob, RJ and Team AWOW!
What a fantastic woman. Simply captivating. Thank you kindly for bringing her closer to us. Your the best Mr Word.🐎
Thanks, Dan. Joan sure is fun!!
@@AWordonWesterns Rob,you lucky son of a gun you 🤠
Great lady. Just watched the Bravados last week. I'd like to see a Lee Majors interview about Valley. Miss Stanwyck could ride and handle a gun like a man!
I've been trying to have Lee as a guest for a couple of years, Wes. Gonna keep trying!
I would like to hear about his "introduction role" in "Will Penny" a favorite western of mine.
Oh, no...is that all? Please say that Joan will be back, Rob! I never watched Dallas, but loved Dynasty just because of Alexis, and always rooted for her. She played *such* an exquisite, ahem, "vixen".
Yep, she was a hoot, Jeff. I'll see if we can book her for more.
Always wonderful to see! Thank you!!! And your right, Rob, so talented, beautiful - Dame Joan could do it all, a vixen and more. (That was a sweet moment.) Wishing her all the best!
Great episode!!! Beautiful lady. Wonderful stories.🙂
Glad you enjoyed it!
I can name a few English women who rode horses, Queen Elizabeth II and her daughter Princess Anne. Queen Elizabeth II owned a horse farm in Kentucky and quietly visited it often. Princess Anne actually competed in the Olympics in the equestrian category. I loved this interview, though. She laughed about herself and that is great when anyone can joke about themselves.
You're right, a number of English ladies ride horses, but more don't than do. I think that's what Joan was trying to get across.
Joan and Jackie Collins, two peas in a pod. I'm going to have to rewatch The Big Sleep with Mitchum now. I hope CZcams has it free with ads. Loved her stories. She and her sister both tell great yarns.
LOL! We call them vixens!
Hahaha! The look on your face, Rob. Priceless!!😄
Trivia: Stunt men who worked with Jack Palance before warned Mitchum that Palance tended to actually hit so be careful. During fight scene Palance took a hard swing at Mitchum's head, Mitchum ducked and struck Palance hard in the gut and Palance proceeded to puke over Mitchum's shoulder.
Ha! That’s an awesome story, Erik. Thanks!
Almost put reply somewhere else. Woulldn't have made sense. I have read about that story as well and it supposedly happened on the set of "Second Chance" from ,1953 starring Mitchum, Palance and Linda Darnell.
Wow! What a great interview! I regret that I never had the pleasure of meeting her, but her stories of the former stars, the great stars, are classic!
Great job Mr. Word!
I always enjoy your videos of western movies , history, interviews. I've learned so much. I've always loved Joan Collins ❤ great Actress so many insights of movie making 😀 Thank you so much 💓
Love Joan Collins. She’s a amazing actress. Is there a part two to this interview, Rob? And does she mention working with Bob and Bing on their last Road To movie?
This was the entire interview. It was done in the Autry's Cafe. We had 5 guests that day and we were allocated less time. Sure glad we were able to record Joan and use it all.
@@AWordonWesterns nice one, Rob. Always appreciate your videos
I remember when Linda Evans pitched the Rejuvenique facial toning system via infomercials.
I remember most of this from the time you first posted it, but it was well worth the revisit. There are some really great laughs to be enjoyed here. Thanks again, Rob!
Huge fan of anthony Newley and his song he sang on Merv Griffin “the man who makes you laugh”
Wow, Rob, Joan Collins! What great guest you scored.
Thanks, Doc. She drove up for the interview with her husband Percy in a Rolls Royce.
Thanks Rob great interview I enjoyed it very much.
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Thanks Rob. This was an enjoyable interview. Joan Collins is an interesting person. Cheers from Canada.
As always Rob, another great interview. Dame Joan was amazing !
What a wonderful interview- hope you can do it again- I feel she has lots of memories to relate!
I hope so, too, Diana. She's having lunch with my wife Saturday and we're planning a dinner soon. She has many fun stories. Thanks.
That is a well- timed lunch! Definitely she will be very entertaining. We were at a hotel the other day where she stayed with Anthony Newley and signed the hotel guest book ( the Alexandra at Lyme Regis) & we have been talking about them ever since!
Great interview, Rob! Dame Joan Collins looked beautiful and told great stories. I am a fam of all of her mentioned costars. "The Big Country" with Gregory Peck was the first movie that I saw in an indoor theater. Paul Newman was great in "Hombre." Robert Mitchum was good in "The Big Sleep" though I prefer the Bogart version, but he was great in "Farewell, My Lovely." And Jack Palance was so good in "Shane" and in the "City Slickers" movies. She got to work with some movie legends. Bring her back! 👍👍😄😀 She is wonderful just to look at.
Another classic Interview for my save files. :D Mom in-law went to high school with Paul Newman. Said he was kind of cute, but aloof at the time. LOL 👍👍& 10⭐ +💯😀
Funny, enjoyed
Love this channel Rob. Just watched this…Joan Collins looks as good as she did 40 yrs ago!
Thanks, Jeff. I'm sure she would agree with you!
good westerns movie
Funny !
Was this interview recent? She is still so beautiful, as a kid I had a crush on her and I just realized I still do.
The date in the description is accurate, Max. This was done in 2015. She STILL looks great today!
@@AWordonWesterns Thanks Rob I guess I missed it. Yes she is beautiful.
I remember many years ago I had read that many actors wanted the stunts done by their stuntmen if they did them those stuntmen didn’t get a check so those folks could go hungry or miss paying the mortgage too !
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There is no doubt that Joan Collins is and was a great Dame, and not a bad vixen.
I have always wondered, if you could interview any star that you never got to, who would it be?
Gotta be Clint, Jimmie.
Vixen . . . yeah, that's the ticket.
Rob your WOW episodes are so enjoyable always excited to see a new one drop. Have you tried to get Bill Shatner? He certainly has done a lot of Western movies and TV shows.
I’d love to talk with him about his many western roles, Chris. I’m trying.
Still a very attractive Lady!
Best to ya',,,,!
I wouldn't have expected that Joan would have a good time on that interview but I could see that she did..Wow 6 wks pay stolen. I guess baggage handlers do have some perks. Wasn't it illegal to bring anymore than $10,000 in from a foreign country back then? Money Laundering you know!
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Never understood "side saddle", or rather the perverse Victorian morality they are most associated with that required their use by the "proper ladies" of the time. Although they go back even further than that.
Riding a horse when you're half dismounted does indeed sound like a job for a stunt double. So musta been really tough for the ladies of those days to ride without them.
Joan's story of the wrangler's assurances that there was "no danger", promptly being kicked by the rearing horse reminds me of the Bing Crosby Bob Hope story of their experience during one of their Road pictures, where an animal trainer gave the boys similar assurances about a scene where a live bear was to be set loose in a tent the boys were occupying. With Hope and Crosby after very little discussion deciding there was absolutely no way they were getting into a tent with that bear.
A wise choice as it turned out cuz while demonstrating how "safe" it was, the agitated bear once stuck in that tent with the trainer in its frantic attempt to escape practically tore the poor guy's arm off.
Whoa! Grin and bear it.
@@AWordonWesterns ha!
Rob calling JOAN COLLINS "The BITCH" and Joan correcting him saying I played a "VIXEN"... well, on Rob's part it may have been a Fraudulent Slip in that Joan played before DYNASTY in two campy borderline soft-core porn movies called THE BITCH and THE STUD written by her sister Jackie, that were shown in regular theaters and later on TV in Britain and Europe!
But then, when I worked on DYNASTY for a short time, to the crew and especially the producers and directors, she was often identified by them as "The Bitch." Even so, she always had a good sense of humor, no matter how difficult she could be to work with.
Still, that's part of Joan's charm... but compared to today's glamorous starlets , JOAN COLLINS is most certainly a class act!
The film was my reference, Graham. Glad you picked up on it. Jackie was a very dear friend, too.
@@AWordonWesterns Rob, as usual with any guest you got Joan to feel comfortable and open-up... who else is going to ask about her western "career" and riding a horse?
The same year THE BRAVADOS came out, her contract studio 20th Century-Fox really were preparing her for CLEOPATRA, screen tested her, and this was for the epic that was being based out of England not Rome, which literally came years and millions of dollars later in this very troubled endless project of recasting everyone from actors and directors. You know, Joan Collins and Elizabeth Taylor could've been sisters,they were both knighted Dames and in 2001 they both starred in a TV movie THESE OLD BROADS alongside Shirley MacLaine and Debbie Reynolds.
All four had appeared in Westerns, and Rob can you imagine what a Word on Westerns show that would've made if they all showed up together!