Status Updates From Past Imperfect: An Autobiog...

around the time Collins got married to Anthony Newley in the mid 1960's there is significantly less on her film career than about her family life which she started finding more important at that time - at any rate I learned about quite a few old movies I've never heard of until now, also interesting reading about her affair with Warren Beatty before he got famous

so many unflattering details about various Hollywood personalities of the 1950's and 1960's here - George Englund and Cloris Leachman's dysfunctional marriage being explored in fine detail, producer Darryl Zanuck coming across as a Harvey Weinstein/Jeffrey Epstein grade creep, also an interesting anecdote about when Joan Collins was called in as a witness at a trial against Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo

reading the extended version Collins wrote in 1984, with a foreword where she explains what's in this one which the original 1978 did not include - mostly reflections on her newfound fame after portraying the main villain in the TV series "Dynasty"

so far there is lots of interesting information about how the film industry has changed since the 1950's, and how restrictive the era's gender roles were for her