Valley of the Dolls

A novel presentation on the book Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann. This WILL spoil the book! All photo credits go to Corbis and Google Images.

Music: Dionne Warwick "Theme from Valley of the Dolls"

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UPDATED 4/12/11 - Wow, I certainly was not expecting this high school writing assignment to get this many hits. I'm updating mainly to say that I am fully aware of the inaccurate bits and pieces I added in my little synopsis. For example, Anne Welles is from New England, not New Jersey... I myself have no idea where I got that from. And yes, I did read the book and still own it to this day. I remember doing this assignment at the last minute because of something a lot of us have called procrastination. I apologize to any VOTD fans out there who cringed at my mistakes!

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• anne
• welles
• jennifer
• north
• neely
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[TubeGuest5178]

Excellent Vid!!!

[jenroh]

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

[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..

[NiftyNataliePollock]

the first sex and the city

[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!

[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.

[defundthewar]

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

[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 !!!

[pinkydogbear]

@SABOREAME68 You should see it before commenting!!

[mssquirrely]

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

enjoyed vid, thx!

[Gekmdal]

nicely done.