VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1967) ¢ 1/2
D: Mark Robson
Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Sharon Tate,
Susan Hayward, Paul Burke, Tony Scotti,
Martin Milner, Lee Grant, Joey Bishop
Glamorous women and the drugs they do, from the novel by Jacqueline Susann. Barbara Parkins plays a girl from small-town New England who moves to New York and lands a job at a talent agency. Patty Duke plays a hot young singer with a ton of talent and ambition and an unfortunate fondness for pills. Sharon Tate plays a no-talent actress who has some bad luck and ends up making nudie flicks in France. It's pure trash, but Hayward gives it some bite as an aging diva (a part originally intended for Judy Garland), and Duke attacks her role like a pit bull with rabies and pretty much rips it to shreds.
Patty Duke
(1946-2016)
