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Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann's 1966 bestseller, arrived like a Lear jet rolling into Aspen and unloading a cargo hold full of contraband. This rags to riches tale chronicling the show business rise and fall of three women features nightlife, penthouses, virgins, abortion, drug overdoses, a fight in the ladies' room and the search for ...
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Jun 2, 2020 · A titillating tale of sex, drugs and naked ambition in the movie business that passed for lurid in 1966, when pop culture was struggling to shrug off the dead hand of the prudish 1950s, Jacqueline...
Feb 9, 2016 · Her first novel, ‘‘Valley of the Dolls,’’ remains a pop-culture touchstone: a gleefully salacious story of friendship, sex, backstabbing and pills (or ‘‘dolls’’) that won famous ...
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The novel tells the story of three women in Hollywood: Anne (a model), Neely (a singer), and Jennifer (an actress). About how they rose to fame and the toll that the decades-long journey took on each one of them and their friendship. The Dolls of the title refer to the pills (uppers, downers, weight loss) that were freely available but I think it c...
We read the book just as the news about Harvey Weinstein was breaking so, yes, I’d say the themes are still very relevant today. The casting couch, and the pressures wannabe actresses/models/singers are under, are all things that I don’t imagine will ever go away. What’s different nowadays though is that more women seem to feel able to come forward...
Hollywood made a film of the book in 1967*, starring Barbara Parkins (Anne), Patty Duke (Neely), and Sharon Tate (Jennifer). I haven’t seen the film and it’s not one I plan to track down. According to Wikipedia, the ending is quite different to the book, and very out of keeping with one of the heroine’s established characters. Perhaps Hollywood did...
I’m not sure what I was expecting and I don’t really know what I think about the book. The only character I felt any empathy for was Jennifer. She had no illusions about her talents, and was unremittingly loyal to her friends and family. Anne and Neely were both manipulators in their separate ways and, I think, maybe deserved what happened to them....
VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. by Jacqueline Susann ‧RELEASE DATE: Feb. 10, 1966. The dolls of the title are barbiturates, seconal is red, nembutal yellow, and amytal emerald green, and they seem to be one of the occupational inevitabilities of show business.
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Valley of the Dolls is the first novel by American writer Jacqueline Susann. Published in 1966, the book was the biggest selling novel of its year. As of 2016, it has sold more than 31 million copies, making it one of the all-time best-selling fictional works in publishing history.
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Jul 20, 2016 · Valley of the Dolls is a novel with sharp teeth. The novel is sympathetic to the plight of the main women, Anne Welles, Jennifer North, and Neely O’Hara, but this doesn’t mean that fate is a benevolent guardian. Unlike the film, the end of Susann’s novel is bleak, hinting that the characters will only further descend into unhappiness.
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