Valley of the Dolls (Spec) [VHS]

Valley of the Dolls (Spec) [VHS]
by Mark Robson

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Actor: Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate, Tony Scotti
Director: Mark Robson
Writer: Jacqueline Susann
Cinematographer: William H. Daniels
Producer: Mark Robson
Editor: Dorothy Spencer
Producer: David Weisbart
Writer: Dorothy Kingsley
Writer: Helen Deutsch
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Special Edition
Running Time: 123 minutes
Release Date: 1997-12-23
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Studio: 20th Century Fox

VHS Movie Reviews of Valley of the Dolls (Spec) [VHS]

Movie Review: A Fantastic Tale of Truth and Brilliance!
Summary: 5 Stars

I fell in love the moment I first saw this great movie from 1967, Valley of the Dolls. The 2-Disc Special Edition DVD is a must have for any fans of the movie, Patty Duke, Barbara Parkins, or even Sharon Tate. The film is spectacularly restored and the special features are bountiful! It almost seems like too much! It's great! You get a couple of great documentaries, screen tests, and trailers! Not to mention a whole hord of other features that you should discover for yourself on this excellent DVD edition! Those who love movies that are full of drama, humor, and even a little bit of horror, will enjoy this 1967 treasure! Pick up a copy today! You won't be sorry!

Movie Review: Movie Soundtrack Only
Summary: 4 Stars

Be aware that Dionne Warwick is missing from this soundtrack. So don't buy it expecting to hear her sing the title cut "Theme from the Valley of the Dolls" and the reprise at the end of the CD. The liner notes inside the CD don't even say who is singing on those two cuts but it's Dory Previn. I just thought I'd let you know because it's mentioned nowhere, but if you play the sample of the first cut you will hear. Margaret Whiting who dubbed as the singing voice for Susan Hayward on "I'll Plant My Own Tree" is also not on this CD. The artist singing is Eileen Wilson. Otherwise all the campy songs and lush score is in tact.

Movie Review: "A Great Trashy Film From The 1960's"
Summary: 5 Stars

"Valley of the Dolls" is the film version of the Jacqueline Susann novel. It is the dramatization of what happens to three young girls who come to Hollywood, their dreams discovered, then ultimately shattered. Patty Duke, Sharon Tate, and Barbara Parkins star. Most consider the film absolute trash, but I consider it pure camp escapist entertainment. The film also explores the terrible drug culture that was predominant in the 1960's. Judy Garland was suppose to star as old Broadway headliner Helen Lawson, but was ultimately fired and replaced by Susan Hayward. The best line in the film is by Hayward, when she yells at Nealy, played by Patty Duke,..."you come back here from Hollywood...well Broadway has no time for booze and dope!!!!". Great Fun!!!!
This DVD is the special edition of the film, and I only wish all studios would give their films this kind of treatment. The movie comes in two discs, one for the movie and the other for the special features which are many. The bonus gems are a great commentary by Barbara Parkins and columnist Ted Casablanca, still galeries, documentaries on the film, screen tests, rare footage of the filming, a featurette on Jacqueline Susaan, and much more. The film has been cleaned and looks superb in widescreen. There are also 20 lobby cards included. There is a cute little booklet that comes with this edition featuring anecodtes of the film. The discs are enclosed in a beautiful pink DVD case, which in turn is protected by a covered carboard case.
"Valley of the Dolls" was remade into a TV miniseries in 1981 starring Lisa Hartman (in the Patty Duke role) and Jean Simmons (in the Susan Hayward role). That wonderul TV production has yet to be put on DVD.
This set is simply outstanding!!!Enjoy!

Movie Review: It is so terrible...it's hilarious....
Summary: 2 Stars

I watched this on TV and have watched clips of it online. It truly is deplorable. Listening to Patty Duke scream, rant and rave is like listening to fingernails being dragged across a blackboard...over and over again. I was embarrassed for her. I would have liked to see her do a cameo. Such as overdose and die (very) early in the film! Sharon Tate was not an actress. I'm sorry. She died horribly and too young but that does not change the fact that she simply could not act! Therefore, her casting was right on target. Susan Hayward could have done without the very dated, badly styled and ugly red wig. The white hair, exposed during the catfight, actually softened her features and was much more flattering! Barbara Parkins had the dramatic range of a rock. And she must have staggered through Tide Country during her big "dramatic" (?) scene, somewhere between the beach (wet , muddy white robe) to the house (clean, dry, white robe). The movie did absolutely nothing for anyone's career. But as the title says, it was so god awful, you had to laugh!!

Movie Review: Better than E-Bay
Summary: 4 Stars

Was extremely happy with this order. Had originally ordered this movie from E-Bay and received it broken. Was very happy with the way Amazon shipped my order so it was received in perfect shape.

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Summary of Valley of the Dolls (Spec) [VHS]

Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a celebrity nightmare of ego, alcohol and 'pills' - the beloved "dolls." A prim New Englander (Barbara Parkins) unexpectedly skyrockets from her job as secretary in a talent agency to a glamorous TV model. A determined singer (Patty Duke) finds that Hollywood success can also spell self-destruction. And a beautiful sex symbol (Sharon Tate) is torn between the money commands and the shame of feeling exploited. Based on Jacqueline Susann's phenomenal best-seller about the underside of Hollywood, this fascinating melodrama was once seen as a shocking behind-the-scenes look at how show business creates instant stars, destroys romances and changes personalities forever.

They don't make 'em like this anymore. Well, John Waters might, if he ever had a big enough budget. A steamy "inside look" at the alternately sleazy and glamorous world of catfighting, backbiting show-biz starlets, this Hollywood hit from the bestselling novel by Jacqueline Susann is a high-gloss camp artifact--a time capsule (or some kind of capsule, anyway)--from the screwy '60s, when a broad was a broad, a bitch was a bitch (whether "her" name was Neely O'Hara or Ted Casablanca), and a "doll" was a prescription drug. These dames of whine and poses obsessed over their bust lines, booze, and barbiturates. The once-shocking and scandalous language and behavior of these Broadway babes has been eclipsed by Dallas, Dynasty, and Melrose Place, but time has only enhanced the stature of Valley of the Dolls as a classic--and it still puts Showgirls to shame. With Patty Duke, Susan Hayward, Sharon Tate, Lee Grant, Barbara Parkins, and Martin Milner (and juicy, scene-chewing dialogue such as the infamous: "They drummed you out of Hollywood, so you come crawling back to Broadway. But Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope--now get out of my way, I've got a man waiting for me!"), Valley of the Dolls is the Mount Rushmore of backstage movie melodramas. --Jim Emerson

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