Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
#0Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 3:39pm
[Sorry if this has been posted before...I searched for "Valley of the Dolls" and went back like 10 pages, and all I found was the "Merman inspired Valley of the Dolls" thread..]
It came to my attention the other day that "Valley of the Dolls" is not available on DVD....yet "Killer Klownz from Outer Space" is. Something seems wrong with that idea...
There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.
Updated On: 7/8/05 at 03:39 PM
#1re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 3:41pmWould make me soooooooo happy.
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Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#2re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 3:41pmYeah Fox is really pissing me off with this. "Valley of the Dolls" and "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" are available commerically all over the world EXCEPT the United States. I have a copy of both on DVD but that's only because a good friend of mine burned the widescreen laserdisc version of both films onto a DVD for me.
#3re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 3:42pmI've loved the movie forever, but I just got done reading the book and loved it even more than the movie. Plus, Patty Duke is sensational. Whats holding this back from DVD release?
There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#4re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 3:43pmI have no idea. If they can release it in Finland I see no reason stoping them from releasing it here in the States.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#5re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 3:50pmI hope they don't release it until all the surviving cast members agree to do a commentary track. Come on, Patty, you know you want this story told!
PEACE.
#6re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 3:54pm
OOOh. True. I want a directors cut with commentary from everyone (who is still alive and available of course) AND with the unused Judy Garland as Helen Lawson footage, as bad as it may be!
AND if they want to include a copy of the "Patty Duke sings songs from Valley of the Dolls" CD, I would be thrilled.
There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.
Updated On: 7/8/05 at 03:54 PM
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#7re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 3:58pm
There's just so many DVDs you can release at a time. Fox claims that there is no specific reason they haven't released it yet, "Just haven't gotten to it." Every list of "We're waiting!" titles seems to include it.
I think now that the demand has become obvious, Fox would be smart to take it's time and do it right! Don't just do a cheesy single DVD transfer, trick it out, two discs, widescreen technicolor! Commentary from any survivors, commentary from pill poppers who can scream out "Seconals were never that dark red!" I would love some commentary from some anonymous bitchy old queens who can tell tales from the set, the premiere, ANYTHING!
I'd love to have a track where said BOQ just draws the parallels to real life: "This REALLY happened to Ethel Merman! Judy Garland flushed her wig down the toilet at the Stork Club!"
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#8re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 4:00pmI went to a special screening that AMC held at the Chelsea Cinemas in 2000. It was hosted by Whoopi Goldberg and Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke and Lee Grant attended and held a Q & A with the audience and shared stories on the making of the film. I remember thinking to myself how beautiful Barbara Parkins still is after all these years.
#9re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 4:13pm"She took the blue pills" That part is my favourite in the trailer. "She took the red pills." Ha!
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Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#10re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 4:17pm
Yeah the trailer is hilarious.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#11re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 4:21pm
"I went to a special screening that AMC held at the Chelsea Cinemas in 2000. It was hosted by Whoopi Goldberg and Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke and Lee Grant attended and held a Q & A with the audience and shared stories on the making of the film."
Damn, I hate you!
Why Whoopie? Was James Lipton not available?
PEACE.
NCGuy
Broadway Star Joined: 4/8/04
#12re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 4:24pm
Marquise, I saw a clip from that screening on the AMC "Backstory" on the movie...it looked like so much fun!
ETA: Your Sharon Tate/Jennifer avatar is fantastic, but do you have a Barbara Parkins one (she was always my favorite...so gorgeous with such a sexy voice)?
Updated On: 7/8/05 at 04:24 PM
#13re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 4:29pmForget everyone else - that movie belongs to Patty Duke:) [Im kidding, though I am totally obsessed with NEEEEELY O'HAAARA!]
There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#14re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 4:31pmWhoopi is a huge fan of the film. I guess that's why she hosted it. They were all good sports about the movie and all acknowledged the movies place in pop culture history. Patty Duke has definitely made peace with it. All of them made special mention of Sharon Tate. All three of them were very close in real life and you could feel the sense of loss when they even mentioned her as if they wished she were there.
#15re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 4:32pm
Sharon Tate is astonishingly gorgeous. That movie preserves her at her best for everyone to see and enjoy forever.
Dammit Fox, do it right.
There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.
NCGuy
Broadway Star Joined: 4/8/04
#16re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 4:35pmThe "Backstory" special had a great quote from Patty Duke (from Marquise's screening, I think) about how she had finally come to appreciate "the fruits of Valley of the Dolls."
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#17re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 4:36pm
I have a ton of photos from the film and of all three women. I have to dig it up though. I'm also a huge Sharon Tate fan and have written numerous times to the parole boards in California to keep her killers behind bars whenever one of those animals are up for parole.
Updated On: 7/8/05 at 04:36 PM
#18re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 4:37pm
i don't understand why both
"santa claus vs. the martians"
and "jesus christ vampire hunter" are on dvd and not this.
Was that a fat joke?
#19re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 6:47pmThere are two cuts of Judy Garland recordings of I'll Plant My Own Tree.....They have never been released!
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#20re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 8:26pmIf Myra Breckenridge can get a DVD release, why not this classic I ask you?
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Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#21re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/8/05 at 8:30pm
There really is no reason to withhold it. I'm a proud owner of THE BAD SEED DVD with Charles Busch and Patti McCormick herself speaking about both the movie and broadway run of that play. It's a gem, and Busch, predictably on the case, is both reverential and gossipy.
So if we have a delicious BAD SEED, it's time for a vocally annotated VALLEY with that other child star Patty telling us about her immersion into the nightmarish world of Neely O'Hara.
Dark confession: when I saw this movie on the big screen, in high school, I took every minute of it seriously. No one laughed, certainly not me. (Barbara Parkins on the beach, the waves lapping at her false eyelashes -- I'm sure I wept.) Which, no doubt, is why I love it so dearly today. I still love my video.
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NCGuy
Broadway Star Joined: 4/8/04
#22re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 7/11/05 at 1:56pm
Marquise,
The Barbara Parkins avatar...NICE! 
NCGuy
Broadway Star Joined: 4/8/04
#23re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 3/28/06 at 2:03am
Valley of the Dolls is finally coming out as a Region 1 DVD on June 13th (along with Beyond the Valley of the Dolls). No details on extras yet, but Ted Casablanca interviews Barbara Parkins in today’s Awful Truth column (www.eonline.com), and she’s apparently involved with the special editon (no word on Patty Duke).
Valley of the Dolls at TLA Video
#24re: Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!
Posted: 3/28/06 at 7:31amThis is EXCELLENT news!
I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2. "unleash the girly"
Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch.
Puppies are babies in fur coats.
Tinfoil...The Terrorizing Terminator
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