Jackie Collins her novels) for the film "Yesterday's Hero" (1979). In the 1980s, Collins and her family moved to Los Angeles on a full-time basis, where she would continue to write about the "rich and famous". She said, "If you wish to be successful, there is a place you should be at a certain time. And Los Angeles in the 1980s was it." Her next novel was "Chances" (1981). It introduced one of her best-known characters, Lucky Santangelo, the "dangerously beautiful" daughter of a gangster. While living in the hills above Sunset Boulevard, Collins collected the knowledge and experience to write her
Jackie Collins this time, she wrote and produced another miniseries based on the "Lady Boss" novel, with Kim Delaney playing the lead role. Collins' run of best-sellers continued with "American Star" (1993), "Hollywood Kids" (1994), and the fourth Santangelo novel, "" (1996). She was the subject of "This Is Your Life" in 1993, when she was surprised by Michael Aspel. In 1998, she made a foray into talk show television with the series "Jackie Collins' Hollywood", but this was unsuccessful. She also published the novel "Thrill" (1998) and wrote a four-part series of mini-novels, called "L.A. Connections", to be released in a