La Vallée des poupées

Original title: Valley of the Dolls

1967
13
2h 3m

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6.0/10

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Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business.Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business.Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business.

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IMDb RATING

6.0/10

10K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

4,508

3,161

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 6 nominations total

Trivia
Director Mark Robson had a very combative relationship with all his actresses, particularly singling out Sharon Tate for his harsh treatment. Patty Duke hated working with him, and years later, after his death, still called him "a mean son of a bitch".

Goofs
When Neely is tap dancing on the table, shown by her shadow on the wall, the shadow does not reflect a pony tail, but when she jumps down, she has a pony tail.

Quotes
Neely O'Hara: Boobies, boobies, boobies. Nothin' but boobies! Who needs 'em? I did great without 'em.

Connections
Edited into Intimate Portrait: Patty Duke (2001)

Soundtracks
Theme from Valley of the Dolls
Music by André Previn
Lyrics by Dory Previn
Sung by Dionne Warwick

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Featured review

7/10

This movie is worth seeing for one beautiful reason

This movie truly is badly done and campy. However, there is one good reason to watch it: Sharon Tate. She was truly one of the screen's all time beauties (if you disagree at first, name someone prettier =)

She is not a bad actress either and did her best with the forced, artificial dialog. Overall the movie has virtually no suspense or drama or tension it just chugs along predictably with one badly written scene after another. Then all of sudden Wham! Sharon appears and you stop caring about the worthless "plot" and watch her. She steals all her scenes and makes the other actresses invisible.

All in all its a bittersweet vehicle for an extraordinarily lovely woman who met a very violent and tragic end.