In an amusingly bitchy article, Look magazine once accurately described Valley of the Dolls (1967) as, "The gargantuan saga of three girls and the nasty, cheesy, show-bizzy world they live in". Truer words have never been said. It simply doesn't get any nastier, cheesier, or show-bizzier than this.
"I wanted a marriage like mom and dad's," Anne Wells (Barbara Parkins) tells us in the opening moments of the film. "But first I wanted new experiences, new faces, new surroundings."
Before you know it, she leaves her picturesque New Englandhometown for the glamour and promise of New York City.
Brassy Broadway STAR Helen Lawson (Susan Hayward). Young, starry-eyed Neely O'Hara (Patty Duke). While rehearsing her song, she's told that her only number has been cut from the show. Bellamy masterfully manipulates the situation until Neely finally vows, "I'll leave this stinkin' show, with dignity
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