Welles and Neely O'Hara (Lisa Hartman) are roommates. That film studio is owned by Henry Bellamy (James Coburn doing his job).Ĭatherine Hicks, Lisa Hartmann and Veronica Hamel Ann Welles (Catherine Hicks in a prickly performance) is a junior lawyer in the legal department of the studio that is producing the flick. Helen Lawson (proudly played by Jean Simmons in spite of it all) is now causing problems on her new FILM, Fanfare. VOTD81 Commercial Drummed Right Off BroadwayNot surprising in a remake, the locale and industry for VOTD81 have been changed from New York and a theatrical milieu to Los Angeles and the movie business. (Mansfield died in 1988.) Thank god, they kept the abortion! Susann rolled over in her grave when news of this travesty reached it. In fact, VOTD81 is so mundane and sanitized I am convinced Ms.
The conclusion airs tomorrow.I can't figure out if this makes VOTD81 a pick or a pan but it certainly makes it seem a lot better and steamier than, upon viewing, it actually is. 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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