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$14.98
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Format: VHS
Dec 1997
Rated PG
Recording Mode: (unknown)
Sound: HiFi, Stereo
Closed Captioned
123 min.
Color
Extra Info: 30th Anniversary Edition
UPC: 086162104732 |
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Details
Movie Description
An inarguable high watermark of modish Hollywood camp, rent from the deliciously pulpy eponymous novel by Jacqueline Susann. Three ambitious young women from different walks of life suffer through the show business meat grinder: an aspiring Broadway diva battles with addiction, a reluctant bombshell makes "art" movies to eke out a living for her ailing husband, and a sensible small-town girl turns modeling sensation. Sudsy, irresistible, and loaded with scenery-chewing, particularly in the memorable scene where a hysterical Duke cries to her pills, "My dolls! My beautiful dolls!" Academy Award Nominations: Best (Adapted) Score.
Synopsis
Film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's melodramatic, bestselling potboiler. The story tracks the lives of three women -- naive New Englander Anne Welles, aspiring singer Neely O'Hara, and buxom beauty Jennifer North -- as they attempt to achieve fame and fortune in Hollywood. But as each starlet either rises to the top or falls to the bottom, she discovers that Hollywood is full of pitfalls and heartbreak. Instead of the happiness they seek, the trio finds only alcoholism, wild sexcapades, tantrums, porno roles, suicide, marital woes, wigs in the toilet, and a dependence on "dolls" -- slang for pills. Which of these ingenues will survive her "trip" through Hollywood?
Film Notes
Richard Dreyfuss made his film debut with a bit part in "Valley of the Dolls."
Judy Garland was originally cast in the role of Helen Lawson, but was replaced by Susan Hayward.
Remade as a TV miniseries in 1981, starring Lisa Hartman-Black.
A Red Lion production.
Industry Reviews
"...It's hard to think of a better definition of camp than 20th Century Fox's candy-colored adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's smash trash novel..."
Entertainment Weekly - Entertainment Weekly Staff (06/13/2003)
4 stars out of 4 -- "[P]ure camp....Dressed in Technicolor..."
Premiere - Rachel Clarke (09/01/2006)
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