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- Patty DukeNeely O'Hara
- Sharon TateJennifer North
- Paul BurkeLyon Burke
- Tony ScottiTony Polar
- Martin MilnerMel Anderson
- Charles DrakeKevin Gillmore
- Alexander DavionTed Casablanca
Lee GrantMiriam Polar- Naomi StevensMiss Steinberg
Robert H. HarrisHenry Bellamy- Jacqueline SusannFirst Reporter at Jennifer's suicide
Valley of the Dolls is a 1967 American drama film directed by Mark Robson and produced by David Weisbart, based on Jacqueline Susann's 1966 novel of the same name. The film stars Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, and Sharon Tate as three young women who become friends as they struggle to forge careers in the entertainment industry.
Valley of the Dolls: Created by Bill La Mond, Jo La Mond. With Sally Kirkland, Colleen Morris, Melissa De Sousa, Sharon Case. An updated adaptation of the Jacqueline Susann novel Valley of the Dolls, which follows the trials and tribulations of several women who live in Southern California.
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Anne befriends up-and-coming singer Neely O'Hara, whose dynamic talent threatens aging star Helen Lawson and beautiful but talentless actress Jennifer North. The women experience success and failure in love and work, leading to heartbreak, addiction and tragedy.
Actress: Valley of the Dolls. Barbara Parkins is best remembered as an icon of the Sixties who had starring roles in two of the era's more notorious productions, Peyton Place (1964) and Valley of the Dolls (1967).
- May 22, 1942
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.
Of the three actresses who portrayed these characters, only one is still alive. Barbara Parkins played Anne Welles, a New England girl described as “the good girl with a million-dollar face and all the bad breaks.”. Parkins was 25 years old when “Valley of the Dolls’ was released in 1967.
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As a trash masterpiece, Valley of the Dolls earned a well-deserved place in the American common consciousness, as integral (if not as worthy) a component of the national identity as Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
