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She made her feature debut as a beauty contest entrant in Lady Godiva Rides Again ( 1951 ) and had a number of other minor film appearances in the UK.

She was next signed by 20th Century Fox in 1955 as their answer to MGM's Elizabeth Taylor.

She actually screen tested for the title role in Cleopatra which eventually went to Taylor.

According to an article in Picture Post, Collins was frustrated by her time at Rank.

Collins told the popular Hulton Press Weekly ' they're always carrying on about there being no women of star material in England.

They don't bother to build us up.

They concentrate on building the men '.

She made her Hollywood debut in Howard Hawks's Land of the Pharaohs ( 1955 ) and appeared in Island in the Sun ( 1957 ).