Joan Collins, photographed in Italy in 1969, where she was starring in Besieged, aka Lo stato d’assedio, aka L’amore breve. Collins’ character, Roberta, falls into affair with her good friend’s back-from-college-son (Mathieu Carrière). The Romano Scavolini-directed drama traces the tumultuous collapse of a wealthy Italian shipbuilding clan. But still, the English actress and writer had time to ride a bike.