Valley of the Dolls

[darlinkula1]

Sweet Video! In the book I found it fascinating that Jennifer North went to a Mexican clinic where they put you to sleep for a week and fed you intraveineously to lose weight. I heard Danny Bonaduce on the Adam Carolla radio show say that such clinics still do exist. Anyone who would trust a clinic to put you to sleep for a week might end up like Michael Jackson did after he trusted a doctor with his life unnecessarily.

[sabordechile]

Boo-hoo. Boo-hoo-hoo-hoo!!!

[sirdaveysockrocker]

in the book, what year was it that jennifer killed herself?

[ValiumandDolls]

This is a semi-good summary. Anne Welles is actually from Massachusettes. Don't know how you confused that with New Jersey. And it isn't the red dolls (Seconal) that Neely is able to stay thin from. Its used at first to just sleep the fat away but this eventually moves on to amphetamines which burn fat.

And VOD is not a typical story of girls who take pills because they're unhappy. To my knowledge there isn't really much of a story like it to this day.

[objectform]

This video is clever .. but Anne Wells was from Connecticut not New Jersey, and while the book takes place in the 50's .. all the photos are mostly from the mid 60's movie and thus the fashion doesn't fit what the narrators of this video is saying...

[MrJimmy1208]

Honey anne wells is from lawrenceville in new england not jersey OMG !!!

[mssquirrely]

I LOVED THIS MOVIE, my mom MADE me watch it and I am sooooo grateful.

enjoyed vid, thx!

[Gekmdal]

nicely done.

[demigrl21]

Is this like for school or something? lol its good

[sylviapalomino]

well put, you did a great job.

[ra86226]

Anne's not from new jersey.  She's from northern CT or Maine. New England states.

[Nivicoman]

I think the pills mentioned here were pretty crude back then. Feel better then when they wore off you felt 10X worse than ever. Todays pills are more refined but hopefully someday there will be no need of pills at all.

[dayfan1962]

Thank you for your narrative on "Valley of the Dolls". Its true that this film is much more than it appears on the surface to be. I enjoyed the book and the movie!

[scarletbword]

the film is one of the best worst movies of all time but i love the book so much. It is not just trash!

This was great- loved the nice pictures of Barbra Perkins!

[14956813]

this was not a film from the 50's it was 1967.Real times!If you didn"t live in the 60's you didn't live!!!!!!!!!

[SABOREAME68]

Red or Green as someone so tactfully pointed out it doesn't matter, furthermore, the film is ageless, women are still facing the same travails today as they did then, I never saw the film or care to, but I do appreciate your synopsis.

[pinkydogbear]

@SABOREAME68 You should see it before commenting!!

[aphonia0714]

Just a couple of things...Anne Welles was from Larenceville, MASSACHUSETTS and Neely O'Hara took the GREEN dolls to get skinny and the RED ones to sleep. =)

[patty3173]

After seeing the movie many times because it is campy, then finally reading the book this weekend, then doing some research: Jennifer is Carole Landis with Jacqueline Susann may or may not have had a lesbian type relationship with (although they were not gay), Neely is Judy Garland, and Helen Lawson is based on Ethel Merman. Jackie was born in 1917 and the book starts in the forties. The 60s movie was shallow and Jackie herself walked out on it.

[chrstianmom]

i never got to see this movie unfortuanatly . im gonna try to soon

[tristanrobin]

I thought Anne Welles was from New Hampshire. No?

[RitzyTrailer]

Yes.. Anne (with an e, thank you!) is from New England, not NJ. And Tony's last name is Pole-ARR - not lPole-err, like in polar-bear. LOL.

There's so many stories withIN the stories here, you can't just watch this movie (or read the book) once! There are great differences, including the ending between the book (set in the 50's) and the movie (set in 1967)

All around hon, this was a great summary! You did a good job!

[defundthewar]

@RitzyTrailer I have to wonder if the narrator really read the book... but she's cute, though.

[JacksonPerdue]

ann wells isn't from new jersey...

[phs9452]

thanks for posting such a nice video

[NiftyNataliePollock]

the first sex and the city

[pstone69]

Nice clip, but there are certain imprecise descriptions that will make a hard-core VOTD's fan, such as myself, cringe.

Anne Welles was cherished for her elegance, her grace, and her breeding, besides simply her beauty.

Neely had a voice, but also a lot of spunk.

Tony Polar's affliction was not primarily mental, but neurological.

Jennifer North thought of herself in terms of her physical endowments, which was short-sighted.

The complexity cannot be summarized in a short clip.

[kenlo77]

Good analysis ... but Jennifer thought herself as only having physical beauty because that was what her mother told her growing up. Even as Jennifer supported her mother, her mother ran her down. All the characters were flawed ... sad movie.

Loved the theme song ... a shame there isn't a good endition with clips ... Loved the scene where Barbara Perkins is on the train looking out on the new england snow

[VenusBlue4u]

Very good overview, with the pics, the song too. Well done!

[powergirl901]

The movie has many dull moments, and I actually saw it originally in '67 so I should know.

this summary is much better.

[moorlock2003]

You are so wrong. There is never a dull moment in this campy classic.

[officialpickle]

the movie is better

[TeddyWhiteWA]

LOL

[blaedvanderwoodsen]

Great summary! :)

[paultinsel]

great video ...great pics ...great all 'round 5

[BobbieJeanEndZone]

I loved Ann on the train ride going back home. The photography is beautiful!

[TubeGuest5178]

Excellent Vid!!!

[jenroh]

thank you!!! i worked hard on it :)

[17snaxaday]

just seen it and it was a very good movie very realistic and sad I Will not wach it again..:(

[homeedkamsm]

My mother really identified with this movie. The theme song has always made me cry. Aren't we - as women - all in various stages of the lives of these ladies? Perhaps not booze or pills - but insecurity, loving, family - its all so true.

[jenroh]

Your mother sounds like an amazing person :)

I definitely agree with you though with the stages we go through..

[Coltboy65]

I think a lot of men can identify with their lives, too!

[defundthewar]

I read them both, Lion. And I tell everybody- read everything you can get your hands on... to get every side of the story.

[eam1963]

It was the 60s

[lionhearted38]

Great video and great writeup! "Jackie" would've appreciated it. If you want to read about "Jackie," read the fun "Life with Jackie" by her husband, Irving Mansfield; a more serious, but less fun, book is "Lovely Me," by Barbara Seaman. Thanks again!