Mark Robson directed it, and he notoriously fired the booze- and drug-addled Judy Garland, who was cast to play aging actress Helen Lawson (Susan Hayward took over), who was supposedly based on Garland. John Williams received his first of 50 Oscar nominations for composing the score. Years after its original release, the film became a so-bad-it’s-good classic about the perils of fame. Both the film and the novel focus on three young women-Neely O’Hara (Patty Duke), Jennifer North (Sharon Tate), and Anne Welles (Barbara Parkins)-who navigate the entertainment industry in both New York City and L.A., but end up getting addicted to barbiturates, a.k.a. Based on Jacqueline Susann's best-selling 1966 novel (which sold more than 30 million copies ), Valley of the Dolls was a critically maligned film that somehow managed to gross $50 million when it was released 50 years ago, on December 15, 1967.
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