Valley of the Dolls: Put it on DVD, people!

[MagicToDo82]

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...

Updated On: 7/8/05 at 03:39 PM

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 7/8/05 at 3:41pm

Would make me soooooooo happy.

[Marquise]

Posted: 7/8/05 at 3:41pm

Yeah 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.

[MagicToDo82]

Posted: 7/8/05 at 3:42pm

I'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?

[Marquise]

Posted: 7/8/05 at 3:43pm

I have no idea. If they can release it in Finland I see no reason stoping them from releasing it here in the States.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 7/8/05 at 3:50pm

I 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!

[MagicToDo82]

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.

Updated On: 7/8/05 at 03:54 PM

[Unknown User]

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]

Posted: 7/8/05 at 4:00pm

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. I remember thinking to myself how beautiful Barbara Parkins still is after all these years.

[WonderBoy]

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!

[Marquise]

Posted: 7/8/05 at 4:17pm

Yeah the trailer is hilarious.

[SueleenGay]

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?

[NCGuy]

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

[MagicToDo82]

Posted: 7/8/05 at 4:29pm

Forget everyone else - that movie belongs to Patty Duke:) [Im kidding, though I am totally obsessed with NEEEEELY O'HAAARA!]

[Marquise]

Posted: 7/8/05 at 4:31pm

Whoopi 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.

[MagicToDo82]

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.

[NCGuy]

Posted: 7/8/05 at 4:35pm

The "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]

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

[CatieElphie1]

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.

[Kristie-K2]

Posted: 7/8/05 at 6:47pm

There are two cuts of Judy Garland recordings of I'll Plant My Own Tree.....They have never been released!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/8/05 at 8:26pm

If Myra Breckenridge can get a DVD release, why not this classic I ask you?

[Auggie27]

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.

[NCGuy]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 1:56pm

Marquise,

The Barbara Parkins avatar...NICE!

[NCGuy]

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

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 7:31am

This is EXCELLENT news!