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Joan Collins: ‘I have to work. How rich do you think I am?’

By Andrew Billen
The Times·
18 mins to read

She’s survived everything that fame and misfortune have thrown at her and, at 90, Joan Collins remains the doyenne of divas. Andrew Billen meets her in Claridge’s (of course).

Here is my theory: Dame Joan Collins may not swagger among the pantheon of Britain’s greatest actresses, but her acting was good enough to harm her. Snatched from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for starletdom by the Rank Organisation aged 17 and now, at 90, still hard at work, two

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