Valley of the Dolls

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Before embarking on her national tour—which never really stopped until she began hawking The Love Machine in 1969—Susann consulted a notebook she had kept while plugging Every Night, Josephine! Into it went minute notations about every reporter, bookshop clerk, and talk-show host she had encountered. Wives’ and kids’ names were recorded, as were birth dates, hobbies, and comments on their importance, personality, and physical appearance. “She studied it, memorized it, wrote the people on it letters,” says Love Machine publicist Abby Hirsch. “She was a politician.”

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And even worse! [gasps!] at some point in the book Anne said it herself, “But she’s (Neely AKA her best friend) fat as a pig. He can’t care for her!” UH, yes he can. Like you need to be thin to have other people care for you. Bitch PLEASE.What about the movie then? With Susann's words: "a piece of shit". Pretty to look at, amazing clothes, and Sharon Tate is a lovely Jennifer, but ultimately it's campy in a bad way and doesn't have the book's soul. I also can't forgive what they did to Anne. Utter nonsense! Garland got revenge in “taking” the beaded pantsuit she was supposed to wear in the movie, and she was unabashed about it. “Well, about six months later, Judy’s going to open at the Palace,” Duke said. “I went to opening night at the Palace and out she came in her suit from Valley of the Dolls.” 8. A SNEAK PREVIEW OF THE FILM HID THE TITLE.

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All of Neely’s songs in the movie were dubbed, which disappointed Duke. “I knew I couldn’t sing like a trained singer,” she said. “But I thought it was important for Neely maybe to be pretty good in the beginning but the deterioration should be that raw, nerve-ending kind of the thing. And I couldn’t convince the director. They wanted to do a blanket dubbing. It just doesn’t have the passion I wanted it to have.” 7. GARLAND STOLE ONE OF THE MOVIE'S COSTUMES. Wow, WHAT a read! I can definitely see why this novel has been hailed an all-time pop culture classic! I loved absolutely every minute of this book and I wish I could find more contemporary novels with the vim, wit, and insight that this book offered! This will always have a place on my shelf and will always be one of my all-time favorites! (Funny how my all-time favs this year have been classics rather than contemporaries, eh?) I highly recommend this book to all women, particularly those "coming of age" in their 20s-30s. You'll find something to love, empathize with and root for in all of these women! Jennifer follows Neely's path to Hollywood, where she marries nightclub singer Tony Polar. She becomes pregnant but gets an abortion after learning that Tony has the hereditary condition Huntington's chorea—a fact his domineering half-sister and manager Miriam had been concealing. When Tony's mental and physical health decline, Miriam and Jennifer place him in a sanitarium. Faced with Tony's mounting medical expenses, Jennifer makes French "art films" — soft-core pornography — to pay the bills. Jennifer learns she has breast cancer and, thinking her body is her only currency, commits suicide rather than face a mastectomy. Sprinkle in some homoerotism. Only for the flavor or the titillation, don't be doing any real treatment on the topic, it will doom the novel to the "genre" ghetto.

What a scary story!! Encapsulated in a wonderful setting of New York in the 1900s. Anne, Jennifer & Neely felt like real people to me, and Anne has now become one of my favourite fictional characters <3 Let me write a sequel about her life after this ending!! a b c d e Rebello, Stephen (2020). Dolls! Dolls! Dolls!: deep inside Valley of the dolls, the most beloved bad book and movie of all time. [New York, New York]. pp.285–289. ISBN 978-0-14-313350-6. OCLC 1127541604. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) Neely was my least favorite. I really disliked her early on in the book, which disappointmented me because she starts out as a very likeable character. It didn’t get better, I continued to dislike her to the very end. She showed her true colors only running to her friends when she really needed them but when she was on top she would forget about them even though they tried to be a constant in her life, the "dolls" and stardom were her only worries.

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But it's very ordinary writing. It was actually rejected by a publisher calling it "painfully dull,inept,clumsy,undisciplined,rambling and thoroughly amateurish". I am certainly inclined to agree with that view. Curiosity satisfied,I couldn't read it for too long. Despite being a classic had I before I got asked if I wanted to participate in the blog tour never read nor seen the movie version of Valley of the Dolls. But, since I'm a daring person when it comes to books did I not hesitate to read it, despite not knowing much about the book. I do not know how big a hit the book was in Sweden when it was published, but I have never really heard that much about the book, could be because I was not born when it was published. So, it was interesting to read a book that so many people seem to like and that seemed to have been an inspiration source for other female writers. This is probably the 5th time I've read this novel, the first being sometime in the late 90s ...and I've enjoyed it every single time. Jacqueline Susann was so far ahead of her time, it's almost laughable. Written in the 60s, and published for the first time in 1966, so much of this book is still relevant, and holds true, today. I guess very little ever changes in the lives of celebrities: body dysmorphia, pills, lesbianism, cheating, scandal, rehab...it's all here, but it sure sounds like 2019, right?

To promote the film, the studio hosted a month-long premiere party on a luxury liner. At a screening in Venice, Susann said the film “appalled” her, according to Parkins. She also thought Hollywood “had ruined her book,” and Susann asked to be taken off the boat. At one point she reportedly told Robson directly that she thought the film was “a piece of sh*t.” 2. BARBARA PARKINS WAS “NERVOUS” TO WORK WITH JUDY GARLAND.