Boy, they sure used to know how to make bad movies. Nowadays, when movies are bad, they're boring and slow. Valley of the Dolls had everything - everything to make it the camp classic that it has become. Choice moment: The pathetic outfit Patty Duke wore on the telethon. When a sendoff of the film was done off-Broadway, the person who played Neely O'Hara had the necklace glued to her dress. Then there's the song "It's Impossible." I'm a musician. I've heard that song a million times and I can't hum it. Ditto "I'll Plant My Own Tree." The one song I do know is "Come Live with Me." More choice moments: the wig scene in the bathroom; "Art films! NUDIES!"; the scene in the asylum when Neely and Tony find one another vis a vis "Come Live with Me;" "I'll go out the way I came in," and of course that final "NEELY O'HARA!" Too many to list. Of course, it's very sad to watch Sharon Tate, a beautiful woman, and realize what happened to her. Barbara Parkins is very beautiful as well, and very '60s in that modeling montage.
Demands numerous viewings.
Demands numerous viewings.