![]() ![]() Veronica Hamel is a porno star-turned-movie queen, Lisa Hartman a drugged-out rocker and Catherine Hicks an ingenue learning that, hey, movieland glamor is not a pretty business. Susann's widower, producer Irving Mansfield, has made a new, updated version of her '60s bestseller that is even trashier than the 1967 movie - and better. The Octoissue of People Magazine mentioned VOTD81 in Picks and Pans: ![]() This project was produced by 20th Century Fox and Irving Mansfield, and is called Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls "1981" (henceforth VOTD81). On Octo(9-11 PM ET), CBS Television aired the first two hours of a miniseries (four hours total) purporting to be a remake of the iconic story containing material author Jacqueline Susann omitted from her original novel. James Coburn, Catherine Hicks and Lisa Hartman ![]() Immortality.īut the saga didn't end with Susann's death from cancer in 1974. A rousing financial (if not critical) success. 20th Century Fox buys the rights to make a film. The mythology of the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls is documented on Wikipedia but in short, Jacqueline Susann writes a novel about three gals (and the dolls with which they play) that sells more copies than The Bible. A Critical Analysis of Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls "1981" ![]()
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