18 Fabulous Rare Photos That Capture a Young Pre-‘Dynasty’ Joan Collins at the Height of Her ’50s Glamour

Joan Collins will forever be known as an ’80s icon thanks to her deliciously nasty run as Alexis Carrington Colby on the primetime soap Dynasty, but the glamorous star was already decades into her career when she landed that role.

The British actress, who is a living legend at 92 years young, began acting as a teenager in the early ’50s and had her first role, an uncredited part as a beauty pageant contestant, in the 1951 film Bikini Baby.

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Collins went on to star in films like The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955), Land of the Pharaohs (1955) and The Wayward Bus (1957). In the ’60s, she starred in Esther and the King (1960) and The Road to Hong Kong (1962) and appeared in the 1967 Star Trek episode “The City on the Edge of Forever,” which many regard as the greatest episode of the beloved series.

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Collins will always be seen as a larger-than-life screen diva, and in a 2022 interview with Woman’s World‘s print magazine, she said, “confidence is not something that I’ve ever worried about,” but also admitted that at the end of the day, “I am just rather a down-to-earth person who made my way swimming up-river in an extremely tough profession and survived.”

Dynasty made Collins a household name, but she had an unparalleled charisma and confidence from her earliest days. Here’s a look back at stylish shots of Joan Collins as a young starlet in the ’50s, when she was just beginning to make her mark on Hollywood.

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