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On the channel FXM, they are running a movie Joan Collins was in,
The Wayward Bus (1957), with a 24 year old Joan Collins in a John Steinbeck adaptation, about an unhappy wife running a roadside diner, and her husband who works as a driver for a Greyhound bus (or some similar line), and the two struggle to keep their unhappy marriage together, and the diner customers and bus passengers also reveal their personal demons on the journey. Jayne Mansfield, also in her prime, is one of the bus passengers.
( The full movie of
The Wayward Bus can be viewed on Youtube, 1 hour 29 minutes total. )
A movie I liked more that also appears frequently on FXM is
Seven Thieves (1960), where Joan Collins (at age 27) is one of a group of criminals recruited to pull off a big financial heist. The best part is the opening scene, where the mastermind is recruiting several into the heist crew in a hotel night club, and Joan Collins is doing her full routine as a stripper onstage, and then is revealed to be one of the heist gang
Joan Collins was trained in stripping for the role by a famous stripper named Candy Barr (who is linked in the Wikipedia movie listing.) She had connections to Jack Ruby, and was interviewed by FBI after JFK's assassination.
( The full movie,
Seven Thieves, also linked here to view free online. 1 hour 42 minues. )
I wasn't really looking for these movies, I just stumbled on them while flipping through the cable TV guide, and thought I'd share. I saw both these movies a few years ago on FXM, and they are apparently still playing them regularly.
