An inarguable high watermark of modish Hollywood camp, rent from the deliciously pulpy eponymous novel by Jacqueline Susann. Three ambitious young women from different walks of life suffer through the show business meat grinder: an aspiring Broadway diva battles with addiction, a reluctant bombshell makes "art" movies to eke out a living for her ailing husband, and a sensible small-town girl turns modeling sensation. Sudsy, irresistible, and loaded with scenery-chewing, particularly in the memorable scene where a hysterical Duke cries to her pills, "My dolls! My beautiful dolls!" Academy Award Nominations: Best (Adapted) Score.

Film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's melodramatic, bestselling potboiler. The story tracks the lives of three women -- naive New Englander Anne Welles, aspiring singer Neely O'Hara, and buxom beauty Jennifer North -- as they attempt to achieve fame and fortune in Hollywood. But as each starlet either rises to the top or falls to the bottom, she discovers that Hollywood is full of pitfalls and heartbreak. Instead of the happiness they seek, the trio finds only alcoholism, wild sexcapades, tantrums, porno roles, suicide, marital woes, wigs in the toilet, and a dependence on "dolls" -- slang for pills. Which of these ingenues will survive her "trip" through Hollywood?

Richard Dreyfuss made his film debut with a bit part in "Valley of the Dolls."

Judy Garland was originally cast in the role of Helen Lawson, but was replaced by Susan Hayward.

Remade as a TV miniseries in 1981, starring Lisa Hartman-Black.

A Red Lion production.

DVD Features:

2-Disc Set - Keep Case
Audio:
Stereo - English
Mono - English, Spanish
Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional
Disc 1: VALLEY OF THE DOLLS - Feature Presentation
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - 1. Alonso Duralde - Film Critic
2. Cast
Disc 2: VALLEY OF THE DOLLS - Supplemental Material
Additional Release Material:
Additional Footage - 1. "'What's My Line?" Episode
2. LACMA Event
Behind the Scenes - 1. Screen Tests (6)
2. Archival "Making of"
Documentary - "The Divine Ms. Susann"
Featurettes - 1. "Gotta Get off this Merry-Go-Round: Sex, Dolls and Showtunes"
2. "Doll-A-Palooza: Addicts Forum A Go-Go"
3. Archival Promotional Featurette
4. Backstory: Valley of the Dolls
Music Video - 1. Musical Numbers from eBay
2. KD Lang Re-mix
Trailers - 1. TV Spots (3)
2. Theatrical Trailers (2)
Interactive Features:
Game - "Translate French Porn Movies"
Karaoke - "Pill Pop-Up Karaoke: Follow the Bouncing Doll"
Pop-Ups - Trivia Track

Sharon Tate: American actress, VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
Patty Duke: American Actress
Barbara Parkins: American TV Actress
Susan Hayward: American Actress
Martin Milner: American Actor; ROUTE 66
Charles Drake: American Actor
Alexander Davion: 
Lee Grant: Oscar winning American actress, director, SHAMPOO
Naomi Stevens: Actress/Valley Of Dolls
Robert H. Harris: 
Richard Dreyfuss: American Actor - Jaws/Lansky
Linda Timmerman: 

Walter Grauman: American TV Director

David Weisbart: American Producer/Editor

Helen Deutsch: American Screenwriter
Dorothy Kingsley: American Screenwriter

John Williams: American Film Composer, STAR WARS (1977)

Dorothy Spencer: Editor

"...It's hard to think of a better definition of camp than 20th Century Fox's candy-colored adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's smash trash novel..."
4 stars out of 4 -- "[P]ure camp....Dressed in Technicolor..."