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Byline: by Joan Collins

NEVER will I forget walking into the cafeteria on the Fox studio lot in Los Angeles for lunch one day wearing blue jeans, a T-shirt and -- believe it or not! -- not a scrap of make-up. It was 1955 and I had just been cast in my first Hollywood movie, The Girl In The Red Velvet Swing.

The part had been intended for Marilyn Monroe, but she walked out of Fox and the role fell to me. Aged 21, I -- a young British actress -- was to play the most beautiful girl in New York. As I walked through the cafe towards Richard Fleischer, the director of the movie, he saw me and he threw his hands in the air.

'Oh my God,' he said. 'I ...

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