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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Catherine Shoard

Joan Collins to play Wallis Simpson in new biopic

‘I think she was unfairly treated’ … Wallis Simpson and Joan Collins.
‘I think she was unfairly treated’ … Wallis Simpson and Joan Collins. Composite: Getty, PR

Joan Collins is to play Wallis Simpson in a new biopic focusing on the US socialite’s final years.

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.

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