Valley of the Dolls

Drama, USA, 1967, 123 min.



The nation's most startling and hotly discussed best-seller now on the screen with every shock and sensation intact
New Englander Anne Welles arrives in New York City and accepts a secretarial job with a leading theatrical law firm. On her first day, she is present at a Broadway rehearsal when hard-boiled musical comedy star Helen Lawson discharges a talented newcomer, Neely O'Hara, because she threatens to steal the show. Lyon Burke, an associate in the law firm, gets Neely a spot on a TV show that leads to stardom in Hollywood. At the same time beautiful but untalented Jennifer North falls in love with nightclub singer Tony Polar and marries him despite the objections of his sister, Miriam. Eventually Anne and Lyon quarrel over his refusal to marry; Lyon quits the law firm to resume his writing; and Anne appears in a series of TV commercials. As time passes, Neely finds herself incapable of adjusting to fame: two unsuccessful marriages (to press agent Mel Anderson and costume designer Ted Casablanca) have led to both alcoholism and drug addiction. Neely is persuaded to enter the same sanitarium where Tony is dying of an incurable disease. Jennifer, who has been paying Tony's bills by making nudist films in Europe, learns she has breast cancer and commits suicide. After Anne and Lyon have reconciled their differences and then broken up again, Neely gets the chance for a comeback on Broadway; but she is still emotionally incapable of facing an audience. Too drunk to go on, she collapses in the theater alley after her understudy has scored an opening night triumph. By now Anne is back at her New England home. One day Lyon pays her a visit and pleads with her to marry him. Anne can only kiss him affectionately and reject his offer.
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