 Collins withdrew from the studio's production of "Sons and Lovers", and requested a release from her contract, however she agreed to star in one last film for Fox, top-billed again in the biblical epic "Esther and the King" (1960).As a freelance actress, Collins made only occasional films in the early 1960s, whilst raising her first two children (she had married the actor/singer Anthony Newley in 1963).In 1961, she returned to London to star opposite Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in the last of that film duo's "road" pictures, "The Road to Hong Kong" (1962).