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Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story

No. - It was one of the reasonsshe was so successful… because she could go out there and...

No. [laughs]
-[crowd laughing] [Morton] It was one of the reasons
she was so successful… because she could go out there and promote
those books and not be embarrassed

Full Transcript

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-No. [laughs] -[crowd laughing]
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[Morton] It was one of the reasons she was so successful…
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because she could go out there and promote those books and not be embarrassed.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
30
Timestamp in Movie
00:02:39
Uploaded
May 21, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
AGC Studios,CNN Films,Passion Pictures,BBC Arts,Ventureland

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Movie Summary

In 1968, Jackie Collins published her first novel The World Is Full of Married Men to remarkable success and immediate scandal. Over the next decades, Collins would go on to build an empire writing books where female agency came first. Jackie Collins’ women were unapologetic about their needs and their sexual desire, and to her devoted readers, Collins became a symbol of the effortless power that defined her heroines.
[soft music playing] - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 00:23
[soft music playing]
[woman] She changed the way women got to have sex. - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 00:11
[woman] She changed the way women got to have sex.
-Barbara Cartland. -[audience applauding] - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 00:08
-Barbara Cartland. -[audience applauding]
[stutters] The books that you write, quite frankly. - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 00:04
[stutters] The books that you write, quite frankly.
-[audience laughing] -[gasps] - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 00:05
-[audience laughing] -[gasps]
[stutters] I think there's a place for everybody, - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 00:06
[stutters] I think there's a place for everybody,
And I would never criticize Barbara and say they all have to be like yours, - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 00:07
And I would never criticize Barbara and say they all have to...
[audience applauding] - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 00:08
[audience applauding]
It is about a woman facing disaster at the beginning. - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 00:04
It is about a woman facing disaster at the beginning.
And no matter how downbeat and downtrodden - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 00:09
And no matter how downbeat and downtrodden
Girls when they leave school, - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 00:05
Girls when they leave school,
-Girls can do anything. -Girls can do anything. - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 00:05
-Girls can do anything. -Girls can do anything.
As much as she was saying that to everybody else, - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 00:07
As much as she was saying that to everybody else,
[dramatic music playing] - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 00:08
[dramatic music playing]
What she wrote and who she was are two different things. - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 00:06
What she wrote and who she was are two different things.
[man] She's one of the most successful authors in publishing history… - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 00:35
[man] She's one of the most successful authors in publi...
[clapperboard clacks] - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 00:15
[clapperboard clacks]
[mellow music playing] - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 00:18
[mellow music playing]
"She swam rapidly toward the raft… - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 00:38
"She swam rapidly toward the raft…
"And then, she was lost in sensation, floating in paradise." - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 00:16
"And then, she was lost in sensation, floating in parad...