Valley of the Dolls. Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Sharon Tate (1, 10) Its Time

Valley of the Dolls is a 1967 American drama film directed by Mark Robson and produced by David Weisbart, based on Jacqueline Susann s 1966 novel Valley of the Dolls. The film stars Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, and Sharon Tate as three young women who become friends as they struggle to forge careers in the entertainment industry. As their careers take different paths, all three descend into barbiturate addiction dolls being a slang term for depressant pills or downers. Susan Hayward, Paul Burke, and Lee Grant costarred. The film was panned by critics, but became a box office success and one of the studio s highest grossing films. In the decades since its release, it has attracted a passionate cult following.