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. During her ...

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Valley of the Dolls hit theaters a year after Susann’s runaway bestseller hit bookstores, and it was equally popular as its source material — and also equally panned by critics. The book and ...

The first surprise is that Susann relinquished all control over how the film was produced, written, cast and publicized ... Who Never Screamed.” “Valley of the Dolls” may be the most ...

Valley of the Dolls Neely (Patty Duke in her first adult ... Susan Hayward was then memorably cast in the role, but if Judy had stayed, the camp factor would have gone over the moon.

Susann — whose dream cast also included Elvis Presley ... It spawned a deliberately absurd sequel, “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,” and a couple of TV remakes. And before she died, Susann ...

Mark Robson directed it, and he notoriously fired the booze- and drug-addled Judy Garland, who was cast to play aging ... she came in her suit from Valley of the Dolls.” 8.

Valley of the Dolls promtional still from 20th Century Fox in 1967 features Barbara Parkins, Sharon Tate and Patty Duke 50 years after Jacqueline Susann's sexy, superficial 'Valley of the Dolls ...