A white 5x3 card signed by Joan Collins, the English actress who, in 1940 at the age of 17, was signed to the J. Arthur Rank Film Company, a highly profitable British/American studio. She made her film debut in 1952, then was signed by 20th Century Fox in 1954 as their answer to MGM's Elizabeth Taylor. She actually screen tested for the title role in Cleopatra which eventually went to Taylor. Collins was popular as a magazine pin-up in the UK throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s, with cover appearances on titles such as Span and 66. Notable guest appearances on American television during the 1960s and 1970s included Batman, The Virginian, Mission: Impossible, Police Woman, and the notable Star Trek episode, "The City on the Edge of Forever". In the 1970s Collins starred in the softcore film versions of her sister Jackie Collins's racy novels The Stud and The Bitch. The films were smash hits in England, becoming the most profitable films since the James Bond series. In 1981, Collins was offered a role in the second season of the then struggling new soap opera Dynasty (1981–1989) playing Alexis, the beautiful but vengeful ex-wife of tycoon Blake Carrington (John Forsythe). Her performance is generally credited as one factor in the fledgling show's subsequent rise in the Nielsen ratings to a hit rivalling Dallas.