Person To Person ventilates the home lives of Johnny Mercer and Joan Collins -- both in Southern California ( Channel 5 at 10:30 ) KQED Summer Music Festival features a live concert by the Capello De Musica ( Channel 9 at 8:30 ).

The 1960 Hollywood film version of the story, Esther and the King, was directed by Raoul Walsh and starred Joan Collins and Richard Egan.

In 1955 Hawks made an atypical Land of the Pharaohs, a Sword-and-sandal epic about ancient Egypt and starring Jack Hawkins and Joan Collins.

* 1933 – Joan Collins, English actress

* May 23 – Joan Collins, English actress ( Dynasty )

His act was centered on wit rather than accurate mimicry, though it was often said that he looked more like Joan Collins than did Joan Collins herself.

During the episode, he imitates Joan Collins ( as the ship's waitress ) and Bette Davis ( as the ship's lounge entertainment ).

As Davis he quips: " Was that Joan Collins hustling the tables?

Loren with Joan Collins in 2009

The couple returned to Los Angeles and quickly became part of a social group that included some of the most successful young people in the film industry, including Steve McQueen, Warren Beatty, Mia Farrow, Peter Sellers, Jacqueline Bisset, Leslie Caron, Joan Collins, Joanna Pettet, Laurence Harvey, Peter Fonda and Jane Fonda, older film stars like Henry Fonda, Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner and Danny Kaye, musicians such as Jim Morrison and the Mamas & the Papas, and record producer Terry Melcher and his girlfriend Candice Bergen.

A young Joan Collins ( then called by the tabloids " Britain's bad girl ") plays a nun shipwrecked on an island with three men.

From 1979 and into the early 1980s he branched out into advertising, making an advert dressed as a traffic warden for Parker Pens, and notably starring with Joan Collins as her boorish companion in a series of successful and endearing Cinzano commercials.

In these adverts the drink would always somehow manage to be spilt down Melissa ( Joan Collins )' s cleavage.

Joan Henrietta Collins, OBE ( born 23 May 1933 ), is a British actress, author and columnist.

True Hollywood Story episode featuring Dynasty, former ABC executive Ted Harbert stated, " The truth is we didn't really believe that we had this thing done as a hit until Joan Collins walked down that courtroom aisle.

" In Dynasty producer Aaron Spelling's final press interview he said of Collins: " We didn't write Joan Collins.

She played Joan Collins.

Joan Collins with Dynasty ( TV series ) | Dynasty co-stars Stephanie Beacham and Emma Samms in London, 2009.

In 1994, at the age of 60, she launched her only exercise video, titled Joan Collins Personal Workout.

In the 1940s, Joan appeared on-stage in an Agatha Christie play, Appointment with Death, which was seen by Christie who wrote in a note to her, " I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple ".

Critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the film was the greatest adaptation of the novel and remarked on Dunst's performance, " The perfect contrast to take-charge Jo comes from Kirsten Dunst's scene-stealing Amy, whose vanity and twinkling mischief make so much more sense coming from an 11-year-old vixen than they did from grown-up Joan Bennett in 1933.

In 1769 doctor Joan Ramis wrote a tragedy play in Menorca called ' Lucrecia '.

1495-1527 ), in a work falsely attributed to Petrarch ( 1304 – 74 ), wrote in his Chronica de le Vite de Pontefici et Imperadori Romani that after Pope Joan had been revealed as a woman:

Joan Howard Maurer, daughter of Moe, wrote the following in 1982:

In 2009 Tracy Chevalier wrote a historical novel entitled, Remarkable Creatures, in which Anning and Elizabeth Philpot were the main characters, and another historical novel about Anning, Curiosity by Joan Thomas, was published in March 2010.

Joan Didion wrote, " Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true.

In 1992 Fortuyn wrote " Aan het volk van Nederland " ( To the people of the Netherlands ), declaring he was the successor to the charismatic but controversial 18th-century Dutch politician Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol.

Joan Baez wrote and performed " The Story of Bangladesh " at the Concert for Bangladesh, Madison Square Garden in 1971.

The violinist Yehudi Menuhim lived there as a boy ; the actresses Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland ( sisters ) were graduates of Los Gatos High School, John Steinbeck wrote Grapes of Wrath there, and Beat hero Neal Cassady lived there in the 1950s.

In 1931, he wrote the Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc, which was premiered at the cathedral in Rouen to commemorate the quincentenary of Joan of Arc's martyr death.

The film critic Pauline Kael wrote of her performance as writer Joan Wilder, " Turner knows how to use her dimples amusingly and how to dance like a woman who didn ’ t know she could ; her star performance is exhilarating.

A. H. Weiler in the New York Times commented, " Joan Crawford should be credited with a truly professional performance ", and Otis L. Guernsey, Jr., in the New York Herald Tribune wrote, " The scenario ... is designed to allow Miss Crawford a wide range of quivering reactions to vicious events, as she passes through the stage of starry-eyed love, terrible disillusionment, fear, hatred, and finally hysteria.

* Alexandre Dumas, père wrote a romance, Joan of Naples, part of his eight-volume series Celebrated Crimes ( 1839 – 40 ).

In an interview in September 2011, Joan Collins chatted about a Dynasty revival-" I've been in constant contact with Esther Shapiro, who wrote it, and apparently they've written a script.

He wrote the introduction to Joan Peyer's To Boulez and Beyond.

* Marjorie Silcoff – Joan Didion, journalist, essayist, novelist who wrote articles for several papers including Buckley's National Review

In 1963 Joan Shogren of San Jose State University wrote a computer program based on artistic principles, resulting in an early public showing of computer art in San Jose, California on May 6, 1963.

" Selznick remained interested in Goddard and after he had been introduced to Vivien Leigh, he wrote to his wife that Leigh was a " dark horse " and that his choice had " narrowed down to Paulette, Jean Arthur, Joan Bennett, and Vivien Leigh " After a series of tests with Leigh that pleased both Selznick and Cukor, Selznick cancelled the further tests that had been scheduled for Goddard, and the part was given to Leigh.

In 2001 Joan Kruckewitt, an American journalist who lived in Nicaragua from 1983 to 1991 and covered the war between the Sandinistas and the Contras for ABC Radio wrote a book The Death of Ben Linder ( Seven Stories Press 2001 ) giving a more sympathetic portrait of Linder's life, work, and death.

McGoohan fell in love with actress Joan Drummond, to whom he reportedly wrote love notes every day.

" As a staff writer on those programs, Oppenheimer wrote sketch comedy for many Hollywood stars, including Fred Allen, Talullah Bankhead, Charles Boyer, Fanny Brice, George Burns and Gracie Allen, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, William Powell, Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, and Spencer Tracy.

In 1995, he played all those roles for Joan Osborne's debut album Relish, which was nominated for six Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year for the No. 4 Billboard hit " One of Us ," which Bazilian single-handedly wrote.