Harlan Ellison said that Joan Collins said of her role on the Star Trek episode ‘The City On The Edge Of Forever’:
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But did she really say that? I’ve heard Harlan Ellison making the claim (in a falsetto voice to mock Joan Collins), but I don’t recall a citation for the claim.
Wait, what part of this was Collins herself supposed to have said? Nothing in either of those quotes by Ellison looks like it’s a quote of Collins.
Sorry, it was too late to edit. According to Harlan Ellison, Joan Collins said her ‘Edith Keeler’ character on ‘The City On The Edge Of Forever’ was Hitler’s girlfriend.
My question is whether she actually said that.
I’ve seen quotes supposedly from Collins describing Edith Keeler as having been a “Nazi sympathizer,” but can’t find a cite at the moment.
From Memory Alpha
"Ms. Collins’ memory of her Trek experience seems hazy, however. In her 1985 autobiography, Past Imperfect (p. 248) she makes a few errors regarding the episode: for example, in addition to the common mistake of referring to Mr. Spock as Dr. Spock, she identifies her character as Edith Cleaver instead of Edith Keeler, and she also claims that Spock, not Kirk, allowed her character to be killed – a plot point that was not in the version of the script that was actually shot. Most significantly, she claims Edith tried to** “prove to the world that Hitler was a nice guy.**” " The City on the Edge of Forever (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom
I haven’t seen the episode in ages, but as I recall, Edith Keeler was supposed to be a genuinely good, kind woman driven by the noblest of ideals. She wasn’t pro-Hitler, just pro-peace, at a time when pacifism would have effectively played into Hitler’s hands.
Edith Keeler probably didn’t have a hateful or antisemitic bone in her body, but if she’d led a successful isolationist, pacifist movement, Hitler might have won. She didn’t have to be a Nazi to serve the Nazis’ interests.
That’s true. I was wondering about the claim that Collins said Edith Keeler was Hitler’s girlfriend.
It would not be surprising if Ellison’s memories of what Collins said thirty years ago are just as hazy as Collins’ memories of a role she played twenty years earlier.
I mentioned in 2001 that I had a tape of Ellison’s comment(s). If it was a tape, I must have recorded it a long time before 2001.
Or that “Hitler’s girlfriend” was a bit of intentional hyperbole.
More like “Lindbergh’s girlfriend.”
This is the only role that I actually liked Joan Collins. She played it to perfection.
Trivia alert, Kirk and Edith stroll down the the street of Mayberry. You can see Floyd’s Barber shop.
I enjoyed her performance in the (otherwise abysmal) cult film LAND OF THE PHARAOHS, because her bottom got a whuppin’. She played it to perfection.
INSIDE A PYRAMID:
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YOUNG HERO DUDE: **What are those?
HIGH PRIEST: (Gesticulating grandly) These are the great solar boats in which our dear beloved pharaoh shall travel across the sky with the Sun god Ra during the day, and return to his tomb at **night **on the river which runs under the world.
YOUNG HERO DUDE: (Trying hard not to laugh) I see.
For a woman born in 1933, Joan Collins is looking pretty good for “a withered old crone”. She must have good plastic surgeons. As far as mis remembering old roles, is that really uncommon?
There’s a mash-up on MeTV in which Kirk and Spock step through the Guardian and onto the streets of Mayberry.
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The City on the Edge of Forever (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom)
In the old days the NY Times published one or two line reviews of movies being shown on TV that day. My favorite was for this movie: “It Sphinx.”
Thank you!
When she posed nude for ***Playboy ***back around 1984, her boobs were pretty saggy. 