Valley of the Dolls

directed by Mark Robson
List(s):"Movie Two"
Category: "Drama"
Year of Release:1967
Date Added:02/07/2015
Date Watched:06/12/2016
Description:Three young women in NYC get involved in show business. Anne (Barbara Parkins) works for Lyon, an agent and has an affair with him, but he dumps her because she wants to get married. Neely (Patty Duke) makes it as a hit on Broadway but gets involved with drugs and alcohol to keep going and ends up in an asylum. Jennifer (Sharon Tate) a beautiful actress without talent marries a famous singer, but when he gets sick she has to turn to making sleazy movies to support him. When she finds out she needs a mastectomy, she commits suicide. Neely comes out of the asylum and steals Lyon away from Anne, but then relapses and ends up alone in a alley screaming at God. Anne quits and goes back to her small town home. Lyon comes begging to marry her but she rejects him and, in a weird ending scene, walks out of her own house and down a road in the middle of winter.
My Rating:3

Reviews for Valley of the Dolls

Review - Valley of the Dolls

Only Anne was remotely worth rooting for. The other women were parodies and all the male characters were identically dull. The acting was ridiculous, the plot was farce, the morality was sad.

Reviewed by Roger on 2016-06-12 17:36:36

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