Jacqueline Jill Collins (4 October 1937 – 19 September 2015) was an English
romance novel
A romance novel or romantic novel generally refers to a type of genre fiction novel which places its primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and usually has an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Pre ...
ist and actress. She moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and spent most of her career there. She wrote 32 novels, all of which appeared on
''The New York Times'' bestsellers list.
Her books have sold more than 500 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages.
Eight of her novels have been adapted for the screen, either as films or television miniseries. She was the younger sister of
Dame Joan Collins.
Early life
Collins was born in 1937, in
Hampstead
Hampstead () is an area in London, which lies northwest of Charing Cross, and extends from Watling Street, the A5 road (Roman Watling Street) to Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland. The area forms the northwest part of the Lon ...
, London,
the younger daughter of Elsa (née Bessant) Collins (died 1962) and Joseph William Collins (died 1988), a theatrical agent whose clients later included
Dame Shirley Bassey
Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey (; born 8 January 1937) is a Welsh singer. Best known for her career longevity, powerful voice and recording the theme songs to three James Bond films, Bassey is widely regarded as one of the most popular vocalists ...
,
the Beatles
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, and
Sir Tom Jones
Sir Thomas Jones Woodward (born 7 June 1940), known professionally as Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer. His career began with a string of top-ten hits in the mid-1960s. He has toured regularly, with appearances in Las Vegas (1967–2011). Jones's ...
.
Collins's South African-born father was
Jewish
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, and her British mother was
Anglican
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. A middle child, Collins had an elder sister,
Joan Collins
Dame Joan Henrietta Collins (born 23 May 1933) is an English actress, author and columnist. Collins is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a People's Choice Award, two Soap Opera Digest Awards and a Primetime ...
(actress and author), and a younger brother, Bill (who became a property agent).
Collins attended
Francis Holland School
Francis Holland School is the name of two separate private day schools for girls in central London, England, governed by the Francis Holland (Church of England) Schools Trust. The schools are located at Clarence Gate (near Regent's Park NW1) ...
, an independent day school for girls in London
[Francis Holland School website]
; retrieved 1 January 2014. and was
expelled at age 15.
During this period, she reportedly had a brief
affair with 29-year-old
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor. Considered one of the most influential actors of the 20th century, he received numerous accolades throughout his career, which spanned six decades, including two Academ ...
.
Early career
In 1956, Collins visited her older sister, Joan, who was then based in Los Angeles. She returned to London after failing to gain a U.S. work permit to enable her to be groomed for stardom at
20th Century Fox
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.
Collins began appearing in acting roles in a series of British
B movies. These included ''
Barnacle Bill'' (1957), ''
Rock You Sinners
''Rock You Sinners'' is a 1957 British second feature black and white musical film featuring early British rock and roll, including Art Baxter and His Rock 'n' Roll Sinners, best known for their song ''Rock You Sinners''. It is generally regarded ...
'' (1957), ''
The Safecracker'' (1958), ''
Intent to Kill'' (1958), ''
Passport to Shame'' (1958), and ''
The Shakedown'' (1960), in which she was credited as Lynn Curtis. After minor appearances in such television series as ''
Danger Man
''Danger Man'' (retitled ''Secret Agent'' in the United States for the revived series, and ''Destination Danger'' and ''John Drake'' in other overseas markets) is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again b ...
'' and ''
The Saint
The Saint may refer to:
Fiction
* Simon Templar, also known as "The Saint", the protagonist of a book series by Leslie Charteris and subsequent adaptations:
** ''The Saint'' (film series) (1938–43), starring Louis Hayward, George Sanders an ...
'', Collins gave up on pursuing an acting career, although she did play briefly on the television series ''
Minder
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Government-appointed persons to accompany foreign visitors are of ...
'' in 1980.
Her first book, ''
The World Is Full of Married Men
''The World Is Full of Married Men'' is the debut novel of British author Jackie Collins, first published in 1968 by W. H. Allen & Co.
Plot summary
Set in London in the swinging sixties, middle-aged advertising executive David Cooper cheats on ...
'' (1968), became a best-seller. Four decades later, she admitted she was a "school dropout" and "juvenile delinquent" when she was 15: "I'm glad I got all of that out of my system at an early age," she said,
[Dunne, Dominick. ''The Mansions of Limbo'', Random House Publishing (1991) e-book] adding that she "never pretended to be a literary writer."
["Jackie Collins, Novelist Who Wrote of Hollywood’s Glamorous Side, Dies at 77"]
''The New York Times'', 19 September 2015.
Writing career
1960s
Collins had begun many works of fiction but abandoned them, and only completed her first novel after being persuaded to do so by her second husband
Oscar Lerman. "You're a storyteller", he told her.
After the publication of her first novel ''
The World is Full of Married Men
''The World Is Full of Married Men'' is the debut novel of British author Jackie Collins, first published in 1968 by W. H. Allen & Co.
Plot summary
Set in London in the swinging sixties, middle-aged advertising executive David Cooper cheats on ...
,'' romantic novelist
Barbara Cartland
Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland, (9 July 1901 – 21 May 2000) published as Barbara Cartland was an English writer, known as the Queen of Romance, who published both contemporary and historical romance novels, the latter set primarily duri ...
called the book "nasty, filthy and disgusting",
and charged Collins with "creating every pervert in Britain".
The book was banned in Australia and South Africa,
but the scandal bolstered sales in the United States and the UK.
Her second novel, ''
The Stud'', was published in 1969. It also made the best-seller lists.
1970s
Collins's third novel, ''
Sunday Simmons & Charlie Brick'' (first published under the title ''The Hollywood Zoo'' in the UK and then retitled ''Sinners'' worldwide in 1984) was published in 1971 and again made the best-seller lists. This was Collins's first novel to be set in the United States.
''
Lovehead
''Lovehead'' was the fourth novel from English author Jackie Collins, first published in 1974 by W. H. Allen. It went under a name change in 1989 and is now known and published as ''The Love Killers''.
Plot Synoposis
Margaret Lawrence Brown - f ...
'' followed in 1974 (retitled as ''The Love Killers'' in 1989). This novel was Collins's first foray into the world of
organized crime
Organized crime (or organised crime) is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for profit. While organized crime is generally th ...
, a genre that would later prove to be extremely successful for her.
Following this, Collins published ''
The World Is Full of Divorced Women'' (unrelated to her first novel) in 1975, and then ''Lovers & Gamblers'' in 1977, which told the story of rock/soul superstar Al King.
In the late 1970s, Collins made a foray into writing for the screen. She co-wrote the screenplay for ''
The Stud'' (1978), based on her second book; the film starred her older sister Joan as the gold-digging adulteress Fontaine Khaled. Following this, Collins wrote the screenplay for ''
The World Is Full of Married Men
''The World Is Full of Married Men'' is the debut novel of British author Jackie Collins, first published in 1968 by W. H. Allen & Co.
Plot summary
Set in London in the swinging sixties, middle-aged advertising executive David Cooper cheats on ...
'' (1980), the film adaptation of her first novel. She also released her seventh novel, ''
The Bitch'' (1979), a sequel to ''The Stud''; ''The Bitch'' was also made into
a successful 1979 film, with Joan Collins reprising the role. Around the same time, Collins wrote an original screenplay (not based on any of her novels) for the film ''
Yesterday's Hero
''Yesterday's Hero'' is a 1979 British drama film directed by Neil Leifer and starring Ian McShane, Suzanne Somers, Adam Faith, Paul Nicholas and Cary Elwes (in his film debut). It also features Glynis Barber and Emma Samms in their early ...
'' (1979).
1980s
In the 1980s, Collins and her family moved to Los Angeles on a full-time basis, where she would continue to write about the "rich and famous". She said, "If you wish to be successful, there is a place you should be at a certain time. And Los Angeles in the 1980s was it."
Her next novel was ''
Chances'' (1981). It introduced one of her best-known characters,
Lucky Santangelo, the "dangerously beautiful" daughter of a gangster.
While living in the hills above
Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard is a boulevard in the central and western part of Los Angeles, California, that stretches from the Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades east to Figueroa Street in Downtown Los Angeles. It is a major thoroughfare in t ...
, Collins collected the knowledge and experience to write her most commercially successful novel, ''
Hollywood Wives'' (1983), which hit ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'' best-seller list at number one. Marketed as a "scandalous exposé", the novel sold over 15 million copies and placed Collins in a powerful position, making her a celebrity of near equal status to her sister Joan, whose own career had taken an upwards direction with her role in the television drama ''
Dynasty
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''.
In 1985, ''Hollywood Wives'' was made into a
television miniseries
A miniseries or mini-series is a television series that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes. " Limited series" is another more recent US term which is sometimes used interchangeably. , the popularity of miniseries format ...
, produced by
Aaron Spelling
Aaron Spelling (April 22, 1923 June 23, 2006) was an American film and television producer and occasional actor. His productions included the TV series ''Family'' (1976–1980), '' Charlie's Angels'' (1976–1981), ''The Love Boat'' (1977–1986 ...
and starring
Candice Bergen
Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an American actress. She won five Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for her portrayal of the title character on the CBS sitcom ''Murphy Brown'' (1988–1998, 2018). She is also kno ...
,
Stefanie Powers,
Angie Dickinson
Angeline Dickinson (née Brown; born September 30, 1931) is an American actress. She began her career on television, appearing in many anthology series during the 1950s, before gaining her breakthrough role in ''Gun the Man Down'' (1956) wit ...
,
Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 31 December 1937) is a Welsh actor, director, and producer. One of Britain's most recognisable and prolific actors, he is known for his performances on the screen and stage. Hopkins has received many accolad ...
,
Suzanne Somers, and
Rod Steiger. Although credited as a "creative consultant", Collins later stated that she was never consulted during production and that she did not agree with some of the casting choices.
She then went on to write the sequel to ''Chances'', titled ''
Lucky'' (1985), followed by ''
Hollywood Husbands
''Hollywood Husbands'' is a 1986 novel by the British author Jackie Collins
Jacqueline Jill Collins (4 October 1937 – 19 September 2015) was an English romance novelist and actress. She moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and spent most of her c ...
'' (1986) and ''Rock Star'' (1988).
[
]
1990s
In 1990, Collins published her third Lucky Santangelo novel, ''Lady Boss
''Lady Boss'' is a 1990 novel written by Jackie Collins and the third in her Santangelo novels, ''Santangelo'' novels series.
The novel was adapted as a TV movie miniseries in 1992, starring Kim Delaney in the title role of Lucky Santangelo. C ...
'', and wrote and co-produced the television miniseries ''Lucky Chances
''Lucky Chances'' is a 1990 television mini-series written by Jackie Collins and based on her bestseller, bestselling novels ''Chances (novel), Chances'' and ''Lucky (Collins novel), Lucky''. It starred Vincent Irizarry, Sandra Bullock, Eric Brae ...
'', which combined her first two Lucky Santangelo novels and starred Nicollette Sheridan
Nicollette Sheridan (born 21 November 1963) is an English-born American actress. She began her career as a fashion model before landing a role in the short-lived ABC primetime soap opera '' Paper Dolls'' in 1984, as well as starring in the rom ...
(in the lead role) and Sandra Bullock
Sandra Annette Bullock (; born July 26, 1964) is an American actress and producer. The recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Sandra Bullock, various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, Bullock was ...
.
In 1992, Collins was widowed when her husband of 26 years, Oscar Lerman, died of cancer. Around this time, she wrote and produced another miniseries based on the ''Lady Boss'' novel, with Kim Delaney
Kim Delaney (born November 29, 1961) is an American actress known for her starring role as Detective Diane Russell on the ABC drama television series ''NYPD Blue'', for which she won an Emmy Award. Early in her career, she played the role of Je ...
playing the lead role. Collins's run of best-sellers continued with ''American Star'' (1993), ''Hollywood Kids'' (1994), and the fourth Santangelo novel, '' Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge'' (1996).
She was the subject of '' This Is Your Life'' in 1993, when she was surprised by Michael Aspel
Michael Terence Aspel (born 12 January 1933) is an English retired television newsreader and host of programmes such as '' Crackerjack'', ''Aspel & Company'', '' Give Us a Clue'', ''This is Your Life'', '' Strange but True?'' and ''Antiques Ro ...
.
In 1998, she made a foray into talk show
A talk show (or chat show in British English) is a television programming or radio programming genre structured around the act of spontaneous conversation.Bernard M. Timberg, Robert J. Erler'' (2010Television Talk: A History of the TV Talk Show ...
television with the series ''Jackie Collins' Hollywood'', but this was unsuccessful. She also published the novel ''Thrill'' (1998) and wrote a four-part series of mini-novels, called ''L.A. Connections'', to be released in a newspaper every six weeks and which introduced a new heroine in the form of investigative journalist Madison Castelli. The fifth Lucky Santangelo novel, ''Dangerous Kiss
''Dangerous Kiss'' is a 1999 novel by Jackie Collins
Jacqueline Jill Collins (4 October 1937 – 19 September 2015) was an English romance novelist and actress. She moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and spent most of her career there. She wrote ...
'', was published in 1999.
2000s
The 2000s turned out to be Collins's busiest time; she published eight best-sellers, more than in any other decade in her career. In 2000, Collins brought back the character of Madison Castelli in a new novel, ''Lethal Seduction''. In 2001, she published ''Hollywood Wives: The New Generation'', which was adapted as a 2003 television movie
A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie or TV film/movie, is a feature-length film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a television network, in contrast to theatrical films made for ...
starring Farrah Fawcett, Melissa Gilbert
Melissa Ellen Gilbert (born May 8, 1963) is an American actress, television director, producer, politician, and former president of the Screen Actors Guild.
Gilbert began her career as a child actress in the late 1960s, appearing in numerous co ...
, and Robin Givens
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Animals
* Australasian robins, red-breasted songbirds of the family Petroicidae
* Many members of the subfamily Saxicolinae (Old World chats), including:
**European robin (''Erithacus rubecula'')
** Bush-robin
**Forest ro ...
. (Collins was credited as an executive producer.) A new Madison Castelli novel, ''Deadly Embrace'', was published in 2002, and ''Hollywood Divorces'' was published in 2003. In 2004, Collins hosted a series of television specials, ''Jackie Collins Presents'', for E! Entertainment Television
E! (an initialism for Entertainment Television) is an American basic cable channel which primarily focuses on pop culture, celebrity focused reality shows, and movies, owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming division of NBCUnivers ...
.
Collins continued with ''Lovers & Players'' (2006); the sixth Lucky Santangelo novel, ''Drop Dead Beautiful
''Drop Dead Beautiful'' is a 2007 novel by Jackie Collins
Jacqueline Jill Collins (4 October 1937 – 19 September 2015) was an English romance novelist and actress. She moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and spent most of her career there. She ...
'' (2007); and ''Married Lovers'' (2008), which concerns the affairs of a female personal trainer named Cameron Paradise. This was followed by ''Poor Little Bitch Girl
''Poor Little Bitch Girl'' is the 27th novel by English novelist Jackie Collins
Jacqueline Jill Collins (4 October 1937 – 19 September 2015) was an English romance novelist and actress. She moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and spent most o ...
'' (2009), which stemmed from an idea Collins had worked on for a television series about heiresses that was ultimately never made.
2010s
''Paris Connections'' (2010), a direct-to-DVD movie adapted from Collins's ''L.A. Connections'' series of mini-novels, was made by Amber Entertainment in association with the UK supermarket chain Tesco
Tesco plc () is a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Welwyn Garden City, England. In 2011 it was the third-largest retailer in the world measured by gross revenues and the ninth-largest in th ...
. The movie stars Charles Dance
Walter Charles Dance (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor. He is known for playing strict, authoritarian characters and villains. His most notable film roles include Sardo Numspa in '' The Golden Child'' (1986), Dr. Jonathan Clemens in '' ...
, Trudie Styler
Trudie Styler (born 6 January 1954) is an English actress and film producer.
Early life and family
Styler was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, the daughter of Pauline and Harry Styler, a farmer and factory worker. When Styler was two years ...
, and Nicole Steinwedell
Nicole Steinwedell (born April 2, 1981) is an American film and television actress.
She is the daughter of two Marines and the granddaughter of an Army colonel. She has three sisters and one brother. She is best known for playing Bridget "Red ...
(as Madison Castelli). Collins served as co-producer, and three more ''Connections'' movies with the Madison Castelli character are planned.
Collins continued to write Lucky Santangelo books, including ''Goddess of Vengeance''. Her 29th novel, titled ''The Power Trip'', was published in February 2013. ''Confessions of a Wild Child'', was published in February 2014, with a movie deal announced even before the book came out.
Collins's cookbook, ''The Lucky Santangelo Cookbook'' (2014), is named after the protagonist of nine Collins novels, who is often portrayed preparing elaborate gastronomic creations for her intimates (and who watched her father throw a plate of food at her mother as a child). Collins's final novel was ''The Santangelos'' (2015), a conclusion to the Santangelo series she had begun with '' Chances'' (1981).
Personal life
Collins held dual citizenship: British (by birth) and U.S. (by naturalization, from 6 May 1960). She married her first husband, Wallace Austin, in 1960; they divorced in 1964. Austin's addiction to drugs prescribed for manic depression ultimately caused their separation, and he died from a deliberate overdose the year after their marriage ended. The couple had one daughter, Tracy, born in 1961.
In 1965, Collins married again, this time to American art gallery and nightclub (''Ad-Lib'' and Tramp
A tramp is a long-term homeless person who travels from place to place as a vagrant, traditionally walking all year round.
Etymology
Tramp is derived from a Middle English verb meaning to "walk with heavy footsteps" (''cf.'' modern English ''t ...
) owner, Oscar Lerman, who was 18 years her senior. The wedding took place in the home of her sister Joan and her husband at the time, Anthony Newley
Anthony Newley (24 September 1931 – 14 April 1999) was an English actor, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker. A "latter-day British Al Jolson", he achieved widespread success in song, and on stage and screen. "One of Broadway's greatest leading ...
. Collins and Lerman had two daughters, Tiffany (born 1967) and Rory (born 1969). Lerman also formally adopted Collins's daughter, Tracy, from her previous marriage. Lerman died in 1992 from prostate cancer.
In 1994, Collins became engaged to Los Angeles business executive Frank Calcagnini, who died in 1998 from a brain tumor
A brain tumor occurs when abnormal cells form within the brain. There are two main types of tumors: malignant tumors and benign (non-cancerous) tumors. These can be further classified as primary tumors, which start within the brain, and seconda ...
. She said that what got her through the tragedies of losing two loved ones was "celebrating their lives, as opposed to dwelling on their deaths."["Jackie Collins: Dealing with the Loss of a Loved One"]
, eharmony.com; accessed 20 September 2015.
In 2011, when asked if she were dating anyone, Collins said: "I have a man for every occasion", adding:
In 2013, she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) Birthday Honours for services to fiction and charity.
Throughout Collins's career, she fictionalized aspects of her personal life as a source for her novels. She said she loved Los Angeles and recalled that while growing up in England, she often read novels by Harold Robbins
Harold Robbins (May 21, 1916 – October 14, 1997) was an American author of popular novels. One of the best-selling writers of all time, he wrote over 25 best-sellers, selling over 750 million copies in 32 languages.
Early life
Robbins was b ...
, Mickey Spillane
Frank Morrison Spillane (; March 9, 1918July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have ...
, and Raymond Chandler.[ '' Vanity Fair'' writer ]Dominick Dunne
Dominick John Dunne (October 29, 1925 – August 26, 2009) was an American writer, investigative journalist, and producer. He began his career in film and television as a producer of the pioneering gay film '' The Boys in the Band'' (1970) and ...
explains that Collins "loved the picture business, the television business, the record business, and the people in them, the stars, celebrities, directors, and producers."[ And although she was a "great partygoer", he says, she went to them "more as an observer than participant", using them as part of her "research."][ "Write about what you know", Collins said at a writer's conference. "I love what I do. I fall in love with my characters. They become me, and I become them."][
]
Death
Collins died on 19 September 2015, of breast cancer
Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipple, a newly inverted nipple, or a re ...
, two weeks before her 78th birthday. She had been diagnosed with stage-4 breast cancer
Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipple, a newly inverted nipple, or a re ...
more than six years before her death but kept her illness almost entirely to herself. She reportedly informed her sister Joan Collins
Dame Joan Henrietta Collins (born 23 May 1933) is an English actress, author and columnist. Collins is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a People's Choice Award, two Soap Opera Digest Awards and a Primetime ...
two weeks before she died and flew from Los Angeles
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to London
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to appear on the ITV
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** ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network covering the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islan ...
chat show '' Loose Women'' nine days before her death.
Bibliography
* ''The World Is Full of Married Men
''The World Is Full of Married Men'' is the debut novel of British author Jackie Collins, first published in 1968 by W. H. Allen & Co.
Plot summary
Set in London in the swinging sixties, middle-aged advertising executive David Cooper cheats on ...
'' (1968)
* '' The Stud'' (1969)
* '' Sunday Simmons & Charlie Brick'' (later ''Sinners'') (1971)
* ''Lovehead
''Lovehead'' was the fourth novel from English author Jackie Collins, first published in 1974 by W. H. Allen. It went under a name change in 1989 and is now known and published as ''The Love Killers''.
Plot Synoposis
Margaret Lawrence Brown - f ...
'' (later ''The Love Killers'') (1974)
* '' The World Is Full of Divorced Women'' (1975)
* ''Lovers and Gamblers'' (1977)
* '' The Bitch'' (1979)
* ''Rock Star'' (1988)
* ''American Star'' (1993)
* '' Thrill!'' (1998)
* ''Lovers & Players'' (2006)
* ''Married Lovers'' (2008)
* ''The Power Trip'' (2012)
;''Hollywood'' series
* '' Hollywood Wives'' (1983)
* ''Hollywood Husbands
''Hollywood Husbands'' is a 1986 novel by the British author Jackie Collins
Jacqueline Jill Collins (4 October 1937 – 19 September 2015) was an English romance novelist and actress. She moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and spent most of her c ...
'' (1986)
* ''Hollywood Kids'' (1994)
* '' Hollywood Wives: The New Generation'' (2001)
* ''Hollywood Divorces'' (2003)
;''Santangelo'' novels
* '' Chances'' (1981)
* ''Lucky'' (1985)
* ''Lady Boss
''Lady Boss'' is a 1990 novel written by Jackie Collins and the third in her Santangelo novels, ''Santangelo'' novels series.
The novel was adapted as a TV movie miniseries in 1992, starring Kim Delaney in the title role of Lucky Santangelo. C ...
'' (1990)
* '' Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge'' (1996)
* ''Dangerous Kiss
''Dangerous Kiss'' is a 1999 novel by Jackie Collins
Jacqueline Jill Collins (4 October 1937 – 19 September 2015) was an English romance novelist and actress. She moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and spent most of her career there. She wrote ...
'' (1999)
* ''Drop Dead Beautiful
''Drop Dead Beautiful'' is a 2007 novel by Jackie Collins
Jacqueline Jill Collins (4 October 1937 – 19 September 2015) was an English romance novelist and actress. She moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and spent most of her career there. She ...
'' (2007)
* ''Poor Little Bitch Girl
''Poor Little Bitch Girl'' is the 27th novel by English novelist Jackie Collins
Jacqueline Jill Collins (4 October 1937 – 19 September 2015) was an English romance novelist and actress. She moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and spent most o ...
'' (2009)
* ''Goddess of Vengeance'' (2011)
* ''Confessions of a Wild Child'' (2013)
* ''The Santangelos'' (2015)
;Madison Castelli series
* ''L. A. Connections'' (serialised novel):
** ''Power'' (1998)
** ''Obsession'' (1998)
** ''Murder'' (1998)
** ''Revenge'' (1998)
* ''Lethal Seduction'' (2000)
* ''Deadly Embrace'' (2002)
;Other
* ''The Lucky Santangelo Cookbook'' (2014)
Source
See also
*
References
External links
*
*
Jackie Collins at the Internet Book List
Jackie Collins
(Aveleyman)
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