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Valley of the Dolls (novel)

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Anne secretly lent him money and feels outraged and emasculated. He and Neely begin a brazen public affair. Henry persuades Anne to wait out the humiliation and pretend she knows nothing, assuring her that Lyon will grow tired of Neely and return to her. The affair stretches out for years, with Neely pressuring Lyon to end his marriage. Anne becomes dependent on the ‘dolls’ to relax, but Lyon reluctantly stays with Anne. After repaying Anne's loan he breaks off the affair (losing Neely as a client in the process) but quickly begins a new one with a teenaged up-and-coming singer. Though Anne finally admits to herself that Lyon will never stop having affairs, she assures herself that she will eventually fall out of love and become numb to all of her pain before reaching for her ‘dolls’ again.
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because of her tantrums and walkouts. Neely accidentally overdoses on pills but makes a full recovery. Still, the studio fires her from the production and replaces her with the boss's young lover. Anne reconnects with Neely; Kevin suggests resurrecting Neely's career by having her sing on a televised spectacular for his brand. Neely at first refuses but following a successful supper-club performance and a run-in with a belligerent Helen she agrees. Unable to cope with the demands of the rehearsals, she overdoses to avoid performing. To Anne's distress Neely disappears to Europe.
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who she believes loves her for more than her body, and she is excited to get married and have a child. But a routine test reveals that she has breast cancer and will require a mastectomy and the treatment will likely render her infertile. After her fiancé says he doesn't want children and makes a comment suggesting he's only interested in her body Jennifer becomes convinced that she will never be loved for who she is. She leaves the hospital and commits suicide.
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Kevin. Anne is unable to overcome her passion for Lyon and the two begin an affair. Kevin eventually learns of this and breaks up with Anne. Some time later Neely finds her voice again after an impromptu sanitarium performance with a now-incompetent Tony Polar. Anne works with Henry to get Lyon to abandon his non-starter career as a writer and become a partner at the agency, with Henry lending Lyon money that secretly comes from Anne.
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to quit the agency, live in Anne's family home, and write novels. Though Anne loves Lyon deeply, she refuses to move back to Massachusetts. Lyon breaks up with Anne and moves to England to write, leaving Anne heartbroken. Though Anne takes years to move on, she eventually becomes a model for beauty products and starts dating the cosmetics company owner, the older, wealthy Kevin Gillmore.
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Lyon is initially put off by Neely, who has become obese, but successfully plots her career comeback. Anne and Lyon get married and Anne quickly becomes pregnant, but her happiness is short-lived when Neely demands that Lyon escort her everywhere on her comeback tour. Lyon learns from Neely about how
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Season 2 Episode 12, main characters Hannah and Grace are at a bookstore looking at the book's cover and pondering what it's about. Just as they're starting to take a peek inside the book to find out, Grace's mother Tattie snatches the book away and scolds them, saying the book is a "trashy" one for
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Jennifer, in Europe, is pressured to undergo plastic surgery; as she has always lied about her true age she is now ten years older than her claimed age of 27. Unhappy with her European career and boyfriend, she returns to the United States. Three years later she becomes engaged to an older senator,
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By 1950 Neely has become a celebrated actress enjoying a lucrative film career and twin sons with her second husband. However long workdays and the stress over her husband's infidelity (with both men and women) keep her dependent on ‘dolls’ and she is becoming increasingly unpopular with the studio
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On the night of the show's opening, Anne and Lyon consummate their feelings, and Anne and Allen break up. The production is a massive success. Neely enjoys a meteoric rise to fame and moves to California to begin a film career. Anne's mother dies and she returns to her hometown with Lyon, who wants
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Meanwhile Jennifer begins a relationship with the childish, sex-obsessed singer Tony Polar, but their romance is frequently interrupted by his domineering older sister, Miriam. Jennifer pressures Tony into marrying her and quickly falls pregnant. After reuniting with an increasingly unsympathetic
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legend. Neely is hired for Helen's latest show but Helen takes a dislike to her and minimizes her role. Anne uses her friendship with Lyon to secure Neely a bigger role, and Neely becomes a breakout star; Helen cruelly rejects Anne by revealing she was only interested in Anne's friendship for the
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Neely reappears in the midst of Jennifer's funeral. She has lost her voice, apparently from psychological issues. After bungling a self-harm attempt Neely becomes institutionalized, which a guilty Anne pays for. Meanwhile Lyon returns to New York and reconnects with Anne, much to the chagrin of
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film resulted in an ultimately successful lawsuit from Susann and varying levels of embarrassment from future Fox regimes over the film's uses of nudity and violence. Because of the legal issues with Susann, the characters of Anne and Lyon were renamed and recast without Parkins and Burke.
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Best Seller List, where it remained for 28 consecutive weeks. With a total of 65 weeks on the list, the book became the best-selling novel of 1966. By the time of Susann's death in 1974, it had entered the
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album, the tenth song on the track is called 'Valley of the Dolls', one of the lyrics is as follows; "in the valley of the dolls, we sleep, got a hole inside of me".
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The creation of the novel, film and the never-made film sequel meant to star Parkins and Burke are the subjects of an acclaimed 2020 non-fiction book written by
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and the baby will likely inherit them. Devastated, Jennifer has an abortion and agrees to divorce Tony. Jennifer then moves to Europe and finds work in
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chance at a sexual relationship with Allen's father. Anne also befriends Jennifer North, a kindhearted young actress famous for her attractive figure.
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magazine called it the "Dirty Book of the Month", and said: "It might more accurately be described as a highly effective sedative, a living doll".
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Because of the success of the film adaptation, a sequel was rushed into development by Fox in early 1968. Susann provided a title for the film,
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as the best-selling novel in publishing history, with more than 17 million copies sold. By 2016, the book had sold more than 31 million copies.
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Despite the poor reviews, the book was a runaway commercial success. On May 8, 1966, in its ninth week on the list, the book reached #1 on the
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Anne Welles moves to New York City to escape the ennui of her Massachusetts hometown. She finds work as a secretary to Henry Bellamy, an
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which is the only physical copy of an English-speaking book the Tralfamadorians have aboard their spaceship.
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was instead made and released in 1970 as an unofficial sequel/musical-comedy parody of the first film.
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Susann had apparently been thinking about the novel for some time. Some years earlier, she had begun
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This Day in Jewish History 1974: Jacqueline Susann, Who Knew What You Really Want to Read, Dies.
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programme's ongoing fifteen-minute daily drama slot, and has been rebroadcast several times on
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Susann dedicated the book to her poodle Josephine, and to her husband Irving Mansfield.
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and aspiring stage actress. Henry's employee, Lyon Burke, returns to the agency after
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Associates on February 10, 1966, and "took off like a Cape Canaveral space shot".
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Neely, who is in the midst of an affair, Jennifer becomes dependent on ‘dolls’,
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Encyclopedia Britannica. February 23, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
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one of the all-time best-selling fictional works in publishing history
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season 3 episode 5, Eric's bunk-mate criticizes the book's ending.
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over three weeks in August and September 2005. It was part of the
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Jacqueline Susann Dead at 53; Novelist Wrote 'Valley of Dolls'.
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The New York Times, August 12, 1973. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
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for the first time and asks for reading material, he is given
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The official website, run by the estate of Jacqueline Susann.
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Anne befriends Helen Lawson, a brilliant, ruthless, unhappy
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The novel was re-adapted by Fox for television in 1981 as
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The 20th-Century American Bestsellers Database: 1960s.
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Index

Neely O'Hara
Valley of the Dolls (film)
Valley of the Dolls (disambiguation)

Jacqueline Susann
Bernard Geis Associates
hardback
paperback
ISBN
978-0802135193
Jacqueline Susann
one of the all-time best-selling fictional works in publishing history
ingenue
entertainment lawyer
vaudevillian
World War II
Broadway
amphetamines
barbiturates
developmental disabilities
art house films
roman à clef
Judy Garland
Carole Landis
Dean Martin
Ethel Merman
Bernard Geis
Publishers Weekly
Gloria Steinem
New York Herald Tribune

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