Barbara Parkins,
Patty Duke,
Paul Burke,
Sharon Tate,
Tony Scotti
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A cinematic take on a 1960s best-seller, Valley of the Dolls traces the ups and downs of three young women as fame, booze, pills, and men consume their lives. Well-bred, small-town Anne Welles (Peyton... read more
DVD Release Date: June 13, 2006
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September 1, 2011A fairly good take at the life of the 60s but I didn't care for it very much.
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February 4, 2011Valley of the Dolls follows the lives of three young women as they struggle to succeed in the cutthroat world of show business. Along the way they contend with drug abuse, alcoholism, adultery, abortion, Huntington's disease, suicide and Susan Hayward. In 1967 it's racy,... read more
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December 10, 2010Maybe it's a bit slow and we've seen this theme often, but this movie has something, it's very timely for the late sixties, and the cast is great. It's a good drama, even though some people think of it as campy now, I still like it.
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October 17, 2010This is campy in a gentler way that most fans of camp are probably accustomed to, but the ridiculousness crackling beneath the surface is impossible to deny. The cast's incredible conviction in their material, all of them oblivious to how roundly awful it actually is, is what tru... read more
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July 18, 2009The more I watched the campier it got. Patty Duke's theatrics are hysterical; she always always reminds me of Helen Keller no matter how old she gets. Watching Sharon Tate makes me sad about her murder. Barbara Perkins' hair has a life of its own. But my goodness are all of them ... read more
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July 17, 2009"You've got to climb Mount Everest to reach the Valley of the Dolls. Its a brutal climb to reach that peak." 
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May 30, 2008Susan Hayward is great, tough as nails, Sharon Tate is touching, Lee Grant is fine in a small role, everything and everybody else is a mess. that can be very good or very bad depending on your mood.
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October 13, 2007Very much a product of its time. This movie is stuck in the 1960's and feels very soap-opera'ish; interesting for that element alone. The styles and fashions date it. The ladies' performances and situations are to be witnessed.
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December 19, 2008So bad, it's good! I love this tacky trash. The book is one of my all time favourites.
I've always wanted a remake of this with Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears in the lead roles. How much fun would that be!
Critic Reviews
October 17, 2007
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
May 9, 2005
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
It's an unbelievably hackneyed and mawkish mish-mash of backstage plots and Peyton Place adumbrations. Full Review
October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
It tries to raise itself to the level of sophisticated pornography, but fails. And it is dirty, not because it has lots of sex in it, but because it firmly believes that sex is dirty. Full Review
March 14, 2009
Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com
At the time sordid, now blase look at drug-infested Hollywood.
October 17, 2007
Film4
The choice of Mark Robson, a talented Hollywood journeyman director, for this piece of nonsense was inspired. Full Review
July 19, 2006
Kevin Carr, 7M Pictures
It's an okay premise, but it still is weighted down with so much of the 60s that I find it hard to relate. Full Review
June 27, 2006
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Based on Susann's steamy bestseller, this delightfully absurd and lurid saga of three girls in "corrupt and corrupting" Hollywood has become a cult classic due to its campy lines. Full Review
January 26, 2006
Time Out
Jacqueline Susann's 'exposé' of Hollywood gets the cliché-ridden treatment it deserves from Robson. Full Review
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