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Joan Collins to play Wallis Simpson in new biopic
Star says she looks forward to playing the last days of ‘this iconic woman’ for whom Edward VIII abdicated the throne
The film, currently titled The Bitter End (and previously known as In Bed with the Duchess), will be directed by Four Weddings and a Funeral’s Mike Newell and depict the last years of Simpson, who died in Paris in 1986, aged 89. The star of 1980s US soap Dynasty began her big-screen career in films such as Howard Hawks’ 1955 mega-flop Land of the Pharaohs as well as in The Opposite Sex (1956) and The Wayward Bus (1957). Simpson has previously been played by Lia Williams in The Crown, Joely Richardson in Wallis & Edward, Faye Dunaway in The Woman I Love, and Eve Best in The King’s Speech.
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