Valley of the Dolls

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The book was published by Bernard Geis Associates on February 10, 1966, and "took off like a Cape Canaveral space shot". [9] Everything is glitzy and glamorous, everyone is happy and smiling, there is a VERY attractive barman helping you to the most delicious drinks all night. Your new red stilettos get loads of complements and you dance the night away with energy to spare. 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.” 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)

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The dialogue and story felt so natural to me, it was incredible. And don’t even get me started on the characters. We grow up with them as they all struggle on their own ropes to fame and see how they change over time which really really makes the story feel so well-constructed. It’s crazy how they can all change so much and still be the same people we met at the beginning of the story. Anne and Neely meet Jennifer North, a beautiful chorus girl with limited talent. They become fast friends, sharing the bonds of ambition and the tendency to fall in love with the wrong men.

Oh Lyon, you scared me. Of course you can’t love like I love you. I don’t expect it. No one could love anyone that much” She looked at him closely. “Just love me, that’s all I ask. Love me as much as you can. And let me love you.” Anne and Lyon start a romance, but Lyon resists Anne's wish to marry. When he abruptly leaves for England, Anne is distraught; she is further upset when her mother dies. Soon Anne's poise and natural beauty attract the attention of her boss's client, Kevin Gillmore, who hires her to promote his line of cosmetics in television and print ads. Kevin falls in love with Anne, but their relationship ends amicably when Anne realizes they are incompatible. In the end I called them all and they all came round and at three in the morning I died of pure pleasure. This is my ghost typing these words. I'm happy to report to all you bachelors out there that there are bikinis after death, and Lambourghinis, in case you were worrying about that. 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.

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Her mother just told her that her aunt died and Anne was like, “I couldn’t go. My mother didn’t really care. Didn’t really want me to be there. It would just look nice for Lawrenceville” UHM, Anne, your Aunt just died and the only thing you care about is yourself and whether your Mommy loves you or not, stop being so selfish.Allen, I know you’re furious at me — and the things you’ve said, you’ve said in anger. I want us to remain friends.”

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Susann did not ditch her typewriter yet—she and Bea next tried writing an exposé about women in show business, a Valley of the Dolls precursor entitled Underneath the Pancake. Susann also availed herself of the wide-open opportunities of live television, frenetically pushing sponsors’ products—Quest-Shon-Mark bras, Sunset appliances, Hazel Bishop cosmetics, and Vigorelli sewing machines—on a spate of ill-fated programs, some of which she hosted. The ending kind of makes me feel dead inside, but I wouldn't have it any other way. And remember, ladies and gentlemen: always believe when people tell you who they are. Don't make compromises where the only loser is you. Anne was just a small town girl living in the lonely world who took the midnight train going to New York. She and her friends Neely and Jennifer are just three girls trying to make it in '40s New York. Anne, educated at Radcliffe, is an all-American girl, who starts off as a secretary, but becomes the face of a cosmetics line. Neely, fresh-faced and nervous, who by her talent rises to become one of Hollywood's greatest stars. Jennifer, gorgeous, is defined by her beauty rather than by who she is as a person. Would have worked too, had Susann not decided to make caricatures of her characters. If that was being said today by my boyfriend about my best friend, I’d rethink my whole life and punch him in the face. I’d let no man disrespect my best friend by calling them names like a petty 6 year old. Gardner, Eriq (March 16, 2012). "Lawsuit Threatens Lee Daniels' 'Valley of the Dolls' TV Series". The Hollywood Reporter.Daniels, Mary. Susann's Best Love Story a Private Affair. Chicago Tribune. August 15, 1976. Retrieved January 10, 2017. Don't bother coming up with complex motivations for when you need your characters to do stupid, destructive shit: just pin it on love. Seaman, Barbara. Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann. 2nd ed. (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1996), p. 197.