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Castaway
1 appearance
Actress best known for playing Alexis Carrington in the soap opera Dynasty.
On the island
Eight records
I think it's the sort of thing you could stand on a beach and the sound would just fill you with joy.
Ross Parker and Hughie Charles
that reminds me of my baby in childhood
I think that the wonder of you is something that brings tears to my eyes, and whenever I hear it I always think it's such a tragedy what happened to him
Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn
when I got on my first pack for that first incredibly long flight to Los Angeles... I played all the time when in my room when I was getting ready, Come fly with me.
Intermezzo from Manon LescautFavourite
so incredibly beautiful, and so romantic, and so stirring, that I could just play it over and over and over again
Steve Barton and Sarah Brightman
I love The Phantom of the Opera. I went to see it about five times and um I love All I Ask of You.
let's have an aria... O mio babbino caro
I think this rather epitomizes perhaps a certain side of me. Love will conquer all.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:04How is life after Alexis? Do you miss her?
I don't miss those early morning calls, I must say, but um it's like a person who is a sort of long lost cousin or something. You sort of miss her when you think about it, but you don't when she's not around.
Presenter asks
4:37What did you want to be when you were little?
Well, when I was little I had a bunch of things I wanted to be. I was quite addicted to a programme on television called Dick Barton's Special Agent. And um I decided I had to be a detective and perhaps get on Dick's team with Jock and Snowy. I got a detective kit and used to go around fingerprinting people all over the house. I thought that would be amusing. But then I realized that perhaps I wasn't cut out for that physically. I might not fade into the background. But my big love had always been movies and theatre. And the more that I went to the theatre, the more I wanted decided I wanted to be an actress. And by the time I was about nine. I I'd really thought that that was the number one.
Presenter asks
8:17You were very much your father's girl then, Joan, were you?
Well, I think so. There was that thing that little girls have in Anglo Saxon countries of always trying to get the love of the father, and the father being rather distant, aloof, strict. Patriarchal figure.
The keepsakes
The luxury
extremely large bottle of a moisturizing lotion
because if I didn't have that, I would probably turn into a prune very rapidly, since I'm not a strong believer in lots of direct sunlight on the face.
Presenter asks
12:17You decided quite early on in life that you were going to be financially independent, that no man was going to rule your life. Have you stuck to that?
Oh, God, yes. Absolutely. I think it would have been wonderful to have been able to have married somebody who was able to be on an equal footing financially or but unfortunately it didn't happen.
Presenter asks
16:42You acted with Bette Davis in The Virgin Queen. How did you get on with her?
Well, Miss Davis um is not a a great admirer of young attractive actresses, I have to admit. She was quite intimidating. Um she had pl this was the second time that she played Elizabeth I, and she'd shaved her head. which I thought was wonderfully daring of her. She'd shaved it back about five inches so that she could wear these red wigs. And she's quite an ogre, I have to admit, Miss Davis is. But she She's one of those people who ha came from a school of hard knocks. She always had to fight. But I think it probably didn't make her as nice a person as she should be.
Presenter asks
28:56It sometimes seems that everyone is waiting for something awful to happen to you, for your bosoms to sag or your eyes to bag. Does that annoy you?
It doesn't really annoy me because I'm not the only one that they're doing that. I mean, Elizabeth Taylor gets it more than I do. But it's always women. I I think my point really is that they wouldn't do that to Paul Newman or to Telly Savalis. It's very unfair. I don't know, I think they do. I think they're starting to do it to people. It's as though getting older is some kind of a crime in this country and unfortunately also in America. But I do think that people do have a wisdom that they get as they get older, and there's no question but that people in their forties have got far more wisdom and knowledge than people in their twenties, and I think that should be appreciated. And they should be proud of themselves.
“Well, since I'm absolutely hopeless with my hands, I have a feeling I won't survive for very long until some sort of Robinson Crusoe type comes along to rescue me.”
“Yes, they wanted a son very much. There was me and then there was Jackie, and um Daddy used to love to go to football games, Arsenal being his particular favourite. And so I used to go along to these games at the age of eleven or twelve and sort of wrapped in a scarf, waving a ratchet, freezing cold, bored to tears, but thinking that he would really approve of me for doing that.”
“Well, I was going out with this um boy, man, and two of his ble best friends and who became mine were Marlon Brando, Paul Newman and Jo Ann Woodward, that's actually three and they all went to shrinks, and all of their friends went to shrinks, and so uh all of us lesser mortals suddenly realize that Shrinks were it. Besides which he told me how to save so much money by going to a shrink rather than spending my afternoons at Saxe and Magnans buying frocks. So I thought, well, why not go to a shrink? Let's see what that's all about. So I went.”
“I think the last year of my life has been the the happiest. Because I have come much more to terms with who I am and what I am. And I Have a freedom that I haven't had before in my whole life. And I'm doing very much what I want to do. And there is no husband? No.”
“So it's just coming to terms with the fact that life isn't easy, but you bloody well make the best of what the what cards you've got and play them as well as you can.”