"Dynasty" beauty JOAN COLLINS reveals the night she was beaten black and blue by movie tough guy JACK PALANCE and then was roughed up and spanked by ROBERT MITCHUM!
In her steamy new-tell all “The World According to Joan” Collins reveals her most sadomasochistic travails with two of Hollywood’s burliest stars.
“When I worked with (Mitchum) on “The Big Sleep” I was quite nervous because of his tough-guy reputation, and I expected to be black and blue from the fight scene we had scheduled,” Joan writes.
“I’d just finished a film with another hard man, Jack Palance, who’d roughed me up severely in our fight scene. He was a bully and pushed me around savagely, no doubt to prove how butch he was.
“But Mitchum, who epitomized the strong, silent type, was as gentle with me as if he were playing with a kitten.
"He had to wrestle me to the floor, fling me across the room, grab my hair, twist my neck and then, for the grand finale, throw me across his knee and spank me!
“Well, I hardly felt a thing throughout, and when I asked him how he had managed to make the fight so realistic without leaving the tiniest mark on me, he replied in his laconic manner:
"Honey, it’s called acting."
