Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls-Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 American movie musical.”Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” is one of those movies that really has to be experienced. Originally conceived as a sequel to the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was revised instead a parody of commercially successful but critically reviled after the original 20th Century Fox rejected two draft script that was presented. Jacqueline Susann, author of the novel Valley of the Dolls, was asked to write a screenplay, but he refused.As a result, the studio placed a disclaimer at the beginning of the film informing the audience that the two films are not intended to be connected. Posters for the movie read, “This is not a sequel — there has never been anything like it”. Upon its initial release, the film was given an X rating by the MPAA; in 1990, it was re-classified as NC-17.
The film was made by Fox while the studio was being sued by Jacqueline Susann, according to Irving Mansfield’s book Jackie and Me. Susann herself had come up with the title while she was writing her second novel The Love Machine. The suit did not come to trial until after the death of Jacqueline Susann, and her estate won a $2 million verdict against the studio.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (sometimes referred to as BVD) is the first of two films produced by independent filmmaker Meyer for 20th Century Fox (it was followed by The Seven Minutes), and one of three films that film critic Ebert co-wrote with Meyer. Ebert has said thatBeyond the Valley of the Dolls seemed “like a movie that got made by accident when the lunatics took over the asylum.”
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