In 1976, at the age of 19, Collins married John Derek. Upon his divorce from Evans, Derek moved to Germany with Collins, where he would not face prosecution under California's statutory rape laws because Collins was under the age of consent. ĭuring the course of these events, Collins became sexually involved with John Derek, who was 30 years her senior and still married to actress Linda Evans. The film was finally released in 1981 under the new title Fantasies, at which point it received negative reviews.

They eventually dropped any legal action, deciding it was not worth their time and effort. Casselman's attempts to distribute the film globally prompted Derek and Collins to seek a restraining order against its release. It remained in a vault for several years until being sold to producer Kevin Casselman. During post-production in Munich, the film ran out of funding and was seized by a German film lab. Collins agreed and was added to the cast. On condition that she dye her hair darker. Although Derek had been considering Collins for the part, he felt that her naturally blonde hair was ill-suited to the character, whom he saw as a brunette. While attending Narbonne High School at age 16 in 1973, Collins auditioned for the female lead in John Derek's Once Upon a Love, a low-budget romantic drama film set in Greece. and then I went to go do this film with John in Greece .

So, then I started going back to school, and I was really enjoying it. I went for like a month without going to school I went to the beach, and I got caught. Well, what happened-I'll tell you what happened. She remarked in a 1985 interview on Late Night with David Letterman: Patton Continuation School, both in Harbor City, California. Ĭollins attended Narbonne High School and George S. She grew up with three siblings: two sisters and a brother. Collins's parents divorced, and her mother remarried stunt performer Bobby Bass. Her father, Paul Collins, was a Hobie Cat executive, and her mother, Norma (née White), was a make-up artist and hairdresser to Ann-Margret. Widowed in 1998, she married actor John Corbett in 2020.ĭerek was born Mary Cathleen Collins in Long Beach, California. Her other credits include Richard Lang's A Change of Seasons (1980) and the ill-fated films Fantasies, Tarzan, the Ape Man (both 1981), Bolero (1984), and Ghosts Can't Do It (1989), all four of which were directed by her first husband, John Derek. She is best known for her breakout role in the romantic comedy film 10 (1979). Bo Derek (born Mary Cathleen Collins, November 20, 1956) is an American actress and model.

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