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Valley of the Dolls is a drama film based on Jacqueline Susann's novel about three women in the entertainment industry. The film stars Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, and Sharon Tate, and was a box office success despite negative reviews.
In 1945 beautiful ingenue Anne Welles moves to New York City to escape the ennui of her Massachusetts hometown. She finds work as a secretary to Henry Bellamy, an entertainment lawyer, and befriends Neely O'Hara, an ebullient vaudevillian and aspiring stage actress.
Valley of the Dolls: Directed by Mark Robson. With Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate. Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business.
- (9.9K)
- Drama, Music, Romance
- Mark Robson
- 1967-12-13
Dec 13, 2017 · Valley of the Dolls —released December 15, 1967—was based on Jacqueline Susann’s 1966 best-seller, which promised to tear the lid off of Hollywood and Broadway. (Accent on the “way,” as...
- Donald Liebenson
In New York City, bright but naive New Englander Anne Welles (Barbara Parkins) becomes a secretary at a theatrical law firm, where she falls in love with attorney...
- (40)
- Mark Robson
- PG-13
- Barbara Parkins
Film version of Jacqueline Susann 's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business. Anne Welles, a bright, brash young New England college grad leaves her Peyton Place-ish small town and heads for Broadway, where she hopes to find an exciting job and sophisticated men.
Oct 13, 2016 · Is Valley of the Dolls a dark, transgressive satire on the patriarchy – or just a fabulous melodrama? As the novel turns 50, Lindsay Baker goes in search of answers.
