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Dirigido porRuss Meyer
Producido porRuss Meyer
Guión porRoger Ebert
Historia deRoger Ebert
Russ Meyer [1]
ProtagonizadaDolly Read
Cynthia Myers
Marcia McBroom
Phyllis Davis
Erica Gavin
John LaZar
Michael Blodgett
David Gurian
Musica porStu Phillips
William Loose (música adicional) [1]
CinematografíaFred J. Koenekamp
Editado porDann Cahn
Dick Wormel [1]
Empresa de producción
Distribuido por20th Century Fox
Fecha de lanzamiento
  • 17 de junio de 1970 (Los Ángeles) [1] (1970-06-17)
Tiempo de ejecución109 minutos [1]
PaísEstados Unidos
Idiomainglés
Presupuesto$ 900,000 [2] o
$ 2.09 millones [3]
Taquilla$ 9 millones [4]

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls es unapelícula de melodrama musical satírica [5] [6] estadounidense de 1970protagonizada por Dolly Read , Cynthia Myers , Marcia McBroom, Phyllis Davis , John LaZar , Michael Blodgett y David Gurian. La película fue dirigida por Russ Meyer y coescrita por Meyer y Roger Ebert . [7]

Originalmente pensada como una secuela de la película de 1967 Valley of the Dolls - "muñecas" es un término de jerga para pastillas depresivas o "tranquilizantes" - Beyond the Valley of the Dolls fue revisada como una parodia del original comercialmente exitoso pero criticado por la crítica. Beyond se encontró con un destino similar; Inicialmente fue criticado por la crítica, pero se convirtió en un éxito de taquilla. Más tarde, la película desarrolló un culto a los seguidores en las décadas siguientes, y obtuvo una reevaluación crítica por sus elementos satíricos y metaficcionales .

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Tres mujeres jóvenes, Kelly MacNamara, Casey Anderson y Petronella "Pet" Danforth, actúan en una banda de rock, Kelly Affair, dirigida por Harris Allsworth, el novio de Kelly. Los cuatro viajan a Los Ángeles para encontrar a la tía separada de Kelly, Susan Lake, heredera de una fortuna familiar. Después de que Susan le promete a Kelly un tercio de su herencia, Porter Hall, su sórdido asesor financiero, desacredita a Kelly como una " hippie " para disuadir a Susan de dividir la fortuna que secretamente quiere desfalcar.

Sin inmutarse, Susan le presenta el asunto Kelly a un extravagante y bien conectado productor de rock , Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell, quien los induce a una actuación improvisada en una de sus escandalosas fiestas (después de una actuación de la banda de la vida real Strawberry Alarm Clock ). La banda es tan bien recibida que Z-Man se convierte en su manager svengali , cambiando su nombre a Carrie Nations y comenzando una larga disputa con Harris.

Kelly se aleja de Harris y sale con Lance Rocke, un gigoló de alto precio , que tiene sus propios diseños sobre su herencia. Después de perder a Kelly, Harris es seducida por la estrella porno Ashley St. Ives, sexualmente agresiva. Ella pronto se cansa de su naturaleza convencional y su libido menguante debido al aumento de la ingesta de drogas y alcohol. El mayor descenso de Harris al consumo de drogas y alcohol conduce a una pelea a puñetazos con Lance y una aventura de una noche con Casey que resulta en un embarazo. Kelly termina su romance con Lance después de que golpea severamente a Harris.

Casey, angustiada por quedar embarazada y recelosa de las debilidades de los hombres, tiene una aventura lésbica con la diseñadora de modas Roxanne, quien la presiona para que se someta a un aborto. Pet tiene un romance aparentemente encantado con el estudiante de derecho Emerson Thorne después de un lindo encuentro en una de las fiestas de Z-Man . Su romance de cuento de hadas se deshilacha cuando Pet se acuesta con Randy Black, un luchador violento que golpea a Emerson e intenta atropellarlo con un auto.

Porter ofrece a Kelly 50.000 dólares para renunciar a cualquier derecho a la herencia de Susan. Cuando Kelly rechaza airadamente su oferta en una de las fiestas de Z-Man , Susan se entera de su táctica solapada y rompe sus lazos con él.

The Carrie Nations lanza varios discos a pesar de las giras constantes y el uso de drogas. Molesto por ser empujado al margen, Harris intenta suicidarse saltando desde las vigas de un escenario de sonido durante una aparición televisiva de la banda. Harris sobrevive a la caída, pero queda parapléjico debido a sus heridas.

Kelly se dedica a cuidar a Harris y Emerson perdona a Pet por su infidelidad. Casey y Roxanne comparten un tierno romance y Susan Lake se reencuentra con su ex prometido, Baxter Wolfe. Esta idílica existencia termina cuando Z-Man invita a Casey, Roxanne y Lance a una fiesta llena de psicodélicos en su casa. Después de que Z-Man intenta seducir a Lance, quien lo desprecia, él revela que tiene pechos y es una mujer vestida. [N 1] Z-Man va en un alboroto asesino: decapita a Lance con una espada, apuñala a su sirviente Otto hasta la muerte y dispara a Roxanne y Casey, matándolos.

En respuesta a una llamada telefónica desesperada que Casey hizo poco antes de su muerte, Kelly, Harris, Pet y Emerson llegan a la casa de Z-Man para someterlo. Pet es herido en el cuerpo a cuerpo, que termina con la muerte de Z-Man . Harris puede mover los pies, el comienzo de su recuperación de la parálisis. Tres parejas —Kelly y Harris, Pet y Emerson, y Susan y Baxter— se casan mientras Porter mira desde fuera de la ventana del juzgado.

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Cast notes

  • Pam Grier has a bit part as a partygoer.
  • Trina Parks has a bit part.

Production[edit]

Development[edit]

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was originally intended as a straightforward sequel to the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls.

Jacqueline Susann, author of the novel Valley of the Dolls, had come up with the title while she was writing her second novel The Love Machine. She wrote a treatment and in June 1968 it was reported Fox wanted Dorothy Kingsley to write a screenplay but she was busy on Bracken's World.[9] In November, it was reported that Barbara Parkins would return in the film, but Patty Duke and Sharon Tate would not.[10]

In June 1969 Fox announced the film would be made in the next 18 months and would come from Irving Manfield Productions.[11] A script was written by Jean Holloway.[12]

Russ Meyer[edit]

In August 1969 Fox announced that the film would no longer be made by Irving Mansfield. Instead they had hired Russ Meyer, whose recent movie Vixen had been a massive commercial success. Holloway's script was discarded and the film critic Roger Ebert took a five-week leave of absence from the Chicago Sun-Times to write a script. Parkins was no longer attached to the film.[12][13]

Meyer said Richard Zanuck, head of Fox, gave him a weekend to come up with an idea of how it could be done "stressing budget strongly in line with the whole ideas of making movies more cheaply" and encouraging him to "make an R film smashing against an X rating."[14]

Meyer wanted to use his own writer, the critic Roger Ebert.

Script[edit]

Meyer says he and Ebert wrote a 127-page treatment in 10 days and the script in three weeks.[14] Neither of them had read the novel but they watched the 1967 film and used the same formula: Three young girls come to Hollywood, find fame and fortune, are threatened by sex, violence, and drugs, and either do or do not win redemption," according to Ebert.[15] He later added "We would include some of the sensational elements of the original story- homosexuality, crippling diseases, characters based on "real" people, events out of recent headlines- but, again, with flat-out exaggeration."[16]

The script was not only a spoof of the original film, but also, in Ebert's words, "a satire of Hollywood conventions, genres, situations, dialogue, characters, and success formulas, heavily overlaid with such shocking violence that some critics didn't know whether the movie 'knew' it was a comedy".[8]

Ebert said the plot was derived in collaboration "by creating characters and then working out situations to cover the range of exploitable content we wanted in the film. Meyer wanted the film to appeal, in some way, to almost anyone who was under thirty and went to the movies. There had to be music, mod clothes, black characters, violence, romantic love, soap opera situations, behind-the-scenes intrigue, fantastic sets, lesbians, orgies, drugs and (eventually) an ending that tied everything together."[16]

Meyer's intention was for the film to "simultaneously be a satire, a serious melodrama, a rock musical, a comedy, a violent exploitation picture, a skin flick, and a moralistic expose (so soon after the Sharon Tate murders) of what the opening crawl called 'the oft-times nightmarish world of Show Business'".[8]

Ebert later recalled:

At the time we were working on BVD I didn't really understand how unusual the project was. But in hindsight I can recognize that the conditions of its making were almost miraculous. An independent X-rated filmmaker and an inexperienced screenwriter were brought into a major studio and given carte blanche to turn out a satire of one of the studio's own hits. And BVD was made at a time when the studio's own fortunes were so low that the movie was seen almost fatalistically, as a gamble that none of the more respectable studio executives really wanted to think about, so that there was a minimum of supervision (or even cognizance) from the Front Office.[15]

Meyer submitted the script to Richard Zanuck at Fox in September and Zanuck greenlit the film.[17]

Meyer said when Fox offered him the film "I felt like I had pulled off the biggest caper in the world."[14]

He described the film as "a soap opera for young people, a cornocopia of wild, way-out now entertainment."[14]

Character influences[edit]

Roger Ebert revealed that many of the film's themes and characters were based upon real people and events, but because neither Ebert nor Russ Meyer actually met these people, their characterizations were based on pure speculation.[15]

  • Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell – The fictional eccentric rock producer turned Carrie Nations manager was loosely based on real-life producer Phil Spector.[18] More than three decades later, Spector was convicted of murder after the body of Lana Clarkson was found at his mansion, which is somewhat reminiscent of the events of the film's climax.
  • Randy Black – The heavyweight champ character was loosely based on the real World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali.[19]
  • The climactic, violent ending, which was not in the original script, was inspired by the real-life Tate-LaBianca murders perpetrated by the Manson family. The film began production on December 2, 1969, shortly after the murders, which were covered heavily by the media.[20] Valley of the Dolls star Sharon Tate was among the murder victims, as was Jay Sebring. Vocalist Lynn Carey, who was dating Sebring and had been invited to join him the night of the Tate-LaBianca murders, refused his invitation, according to her comments on the DVD extras.
  • Porter Hall – This scheming lawyer shares the name of a character actor who often played movie villains.[21]
  • Susan Lake and Baxter Wolfe were, in an original draft script, Anne Welles and Lyon Burke from Valley of the Dolls. Their back-story stated in BVD ("He proposed to her but it was the wrong time", "It's been three years ..."), matches the ending of the original. Following Jacqueline Susann's legal-action proceedings against 20th Century Fox, the characters were renamed and recast.[22] Barbara Parkins, who played Anne, was originally under contract to appear in BVD and was disappointed when she was abruptly removed from the project.[23] The special edition DVD features a screen test with Michael Blodgett and Cynthia Myers enacting the bedroom scene between Lance and Kelly. Obviously based on an early script, the dialogue has them make reference to Anne Welles, not Susan Lake, as Kelly's Aunt.

Casting[edit]

The cast was composed almost entirely of unknowns. "Valley of the Dolls plus my own name will be enough," said Meyer.[14]

Meyer said even if Parkins had wanted to do the film they would not have used her. "She would cost us too much money."[24]

Cynthia Myers was a playboy playmate hired to play one of the girls who realizes she's a lesbian. "It's a loving and tender thing," Myers said of the film's depiction of her sexuality. "It's not The Killing of Sister George."[25]

Edy Williams was under contract to Fox at the time.[14]

Pam Grier made her film debut as an extra in a party scene.[26]

Shooting[edit]

Meyer and Ebert kept the costs down by writing "97 percent of the film" for existing sets on the Fox backlot.[14] Ebert said that Beyond the Valley of the Dolls seemed "like a movie that got made by accident when the lunatics took over the asylum".[27] Ebert says Meyer "directed his actors with a poker face, solemnly discussing the motivations behind each scene. Some of the actors asked me whether their dialogue wasn't supposed to be humorous, but Meyer discussed it so seriously with them that they hesitated to risk offending him by voicing such a suggestion. The result is that BVD has a curious tone all of its own... from actors directed at right angles to the material."[15]

Because the film was put together so quickly, some plot decisions, such as the character Z-Man being revealed as a woman in drag,[28] were made on the spot, without the chance to bring previous already-shot scenes into alignment with the new development.[8] As they were shooting, the cast was uncertain whether the dialogue was intended to be comic or not, which would alter their approach to acting it. Because Meyer always discussed their roles and the film so seriously, they did not want to unintentionally insult him by asking, so they broached the question to Ebert, instead. Meyer's intention was to have the actors perform the material in a straightforward manner, saying "If the actors perform as if they know they have funny lines, it won't work." Ebert described the resulting tone as "curious".[8]

In 1980, Ebert looked back on the film and said of it:

I think of it as an essay on our generic expectations. It's an anthology of stock situations, characters, dialogue, clichés and stereotypes, set to music and manipulated to work as exposition and satire at the same time; it's cause and effect, a wind-up machine to generate emotions, pure movie without message.[8]

Music and soundtrack[edit]

Most of the film's music was written by Stu Phillips. Phillips adapted Paul Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice for the psychedelic scene at Z-Man's house near the film's end.[29]

Members of the fictitious Carrie Nations neither sing nor play their own instruments in the film. Vocals for the lip-synced songs were performed by Lynn Carey (Mama Lion), a blue-eyed soul singer based in Los Angeles, together with Barbara Robison, the lead singer of Peanut Butter Conspiracy. Carey's and Robison's voices are showcased on the apocalyptic rocker "Find It" (by Stu Phillips and Carey),[1] the earnest folk anthem "Come With the Gentle People" (by Stu Phillips and Bob Stone),[1] the raunchy R&B of "Sweet Talking Candyman" (by Phillips and Stone),[1] the lilting ballad "In the Long Run" (by Phillips and Stone),[1] and the soulful strut of "Look On Up At the Bottom" (also by Phillips and Stone).[1] She also sings "Once I had Love", written by Stu Phillips and herself.[1]

Strawberry Alarm Clock performed their 1967 hit "Incense and Peppermints", the mid-tempo rocker "Girl from the City" (written by Paul Marshall),[1] and the power pop anthem "I'm Comin' Home" (also by Marshall)[1] during the first party scene at Z-Man's house. The film's title song was performed by A&M artists The Sandpipers and is heard twice near the end of the movie. The group released the song as a single and on their 1970 Come Saturday Morning LP.

Different versions of the soundtrack album exist because of disputes over royalties.[29] The original vinyl soundtrack, reissued in the early 2000s, substitutes Ami Rushes' vocals for Lynn Carey's originals, and includes one song, "Once I Had Love", not on the 2003 CD reissue. However, the CD edition of the soundtrack (Soundtrack Classics SCL 1408 and Harkit Records HRKCD 8032) contains 25 songs compared to the 12 songs on the vinyl version, with the original film versions plus Lynn Carey and Barbara Robison bonus tracks. Both labels also released vinyl editions with different covers and extended songs compared to the 1970 LP.

The song "Once I Had A Love" was released on the CD Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls/Groupie Girl (Screen Gold Records SGLDCD00010) along with the songs from the LP from 1970. The CD does not contain the original film versions, only the new recordings for the LP from 1970, with four songs by Ami Rushes and two by Barbara Robison. For the first time, all original film song versions are included, with original versions sung by Carey and Robison.

"Incense and Peppermints", some incidental music, and the Strawberry Alarm Clock's Hammond organ instrumental "Toy Boy" are missing from all soundtrack releases.

Release[edit]

The film had its world premiere at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood on June 17, 1970. Jacqueline Susann, author of the unconnected novel Valley of the Dolls, sought an injunction against its release but failed.[30]

Initially the film was given an X rating by the MPAA;[31] in 1990, it was reclassified as NC-17. Meyer's response to the original X rating was to attempt to re-edit the film to insert more nudity and sex, but Fox wanted to get the movie released quickly and would not give him the time.[8]

Lawsuit[edit]

Susann sued Fox for $10 million for damaging her reputation by making the film, saying it was "sex exploitation film, employs total nudity and is scandalous of content."[32]

As a result, the studio placed a disclaimer at the beginning of the film informing the audience that the two films were not intended to be connected. Posters for the movie read, "This is not a sequel—there has never been anything like it".

The suit did not go to trial until after Susann's death in September 1974. Her estate won a $2 million verdict against the studio in August 1975.[33]

Home media[edit]

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was released as a two-disc, special-edition DVD set on June 13, 2006, which is now out of print.

However, 20th Century Fox re-released it on the second disc of the four-disc variety feature pack, Studio Classics: Set 9, which also includes All About Eve, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, and Valley of the Dolls, on May 4, 2010.

In the UK, Arrow Video released the film on Blu-ray on January 18, 2016, in a special edition with The Seven Minutes.

In the US, The Criterion Collection released the film on DVD and Blu-ray on September 27, 2016 along with Valley of the Dolls.[34]

Despite YouTube's policy of not carrying NC-17 movies, the film is available to rent and purchase on YouTube, although the rating isn't mentioned.

Reception[edit]

Critical reception[edit]

The film was initially critically panned. Upon release, Ebert's future TV co-host Gene Siskel gave the film zero stars out of four, writing in the Chicago Tribune that the film "unfolds with all of the humor and excitement of a padded bra ... Boredom aplenty is provided by a screenplay which for some reason has been turned over to a screenwriting neophyte."[35] He later put it on his list of the 20 worst films of the year.[36]

Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that the film "comes off with a slightly higher rating" than the original Valley of the Dolls book and movie, but thought that by "quite consciously attempting to parody his earlier movies" Meyer had "become patronizing."[37]

Variety wrote that it was "not much of a film. Producer-director Russ Meyer, who once made low-budget sex pix which had a crude and innocuous charm but not much of a story, this time around spent between 20 and 30 times the money he used to have, and got less for it."[38]

Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times panned the film as a "a treat for the emotionally retarded, sexually inadequate and dimwitted. It is a grievously sick melange of hypermammalian girls, obvious double-entendres and sadistic violence."[39]

Gary Arnold of The Washington Post declared it "a mess, a disaster, a stinkeroo, the most wretched of wretched movies," adding, "Disregard anything you hear in the so-bad-it's-good or it's-all-a-put-on veins. It's a depressing picture — witless, hysterical, gratuitous, technically inept, needlessly brutal."[40] Mike Wallington of The Monthly Film Bulletin called it "corny, moralising, guileless, and visually about as appealing as a Christmas wrapper. It is also perversely enjoyable if one is prepared to laugh at it as well as with it."[41]

John Waters has expressed admiration for the film citing it as "one of the best movies ever made."[42]

Since its release in 1970, the film has acquired a cult following and has even been included in various "best of" lists by movie critics. The reviews have improved to become more mixed at the present, with critics agreeing it was much better than the film it parodied. In 2000, Canadian magazine Take One included it in their "Best Films of the 1970s" critics poll.[43] In 2001, the Village Voice named the film #87 on its list of the 100 Greatest Films of the Century.[44] On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 75% from 28 reviews. The critical consensus reads: "Confidently campy and played with groovy conviction, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is an exuberant expression of both the hilarity and terror that comes with free love."[45]

Box office[edit]

According to Fox records the film required $4,100,000 in theatrical rentals to break even. By December 11th, 1970, it had made $7,000,000, more than enough to be profitable for the studio.[46][47]

Despite an X rating and a modest budget of $900,000,[2] Beyond the Valley of the Dolls grossed 10 times that amount in the U.S. market,[4] qualifying it as a hit for Fox. In 2004, Roger Ebert claimed it had grossed $40 million.[2]

The production of the film, along with Myra Breckinridge, helped lead to the ousting of Richard Zanuck from Fox.[48]

See also[edit]

  • List of American films of 1970

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ To quote Roger Ebert: "Readers who have seen BVD will know that Z-Man is a rock Svengali who seems to be a gay man for most of the movie, but is finally revealed to be a woman in drag."[8]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Beyond the Valley of the Dolls at the American Film Institute Catalog
  2. ^ a b c King of the Funny Skin Flicks by Roger Ebert. Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  3. ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p256
  4. ^ a b "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  5. ^ Geraghty, Lincoln; Jancovich, Mark, eds. (2008). The Shifting Definitions of Genre: Essays on Labeling Films, Television Shows and Media. McFarland. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-786-43430-5.
  6. ^ Kendrick, James (2009). Hollywood Bloodshed: Violence in 1980s American Cinema. SIU Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-809-32888-8.
  7. ^ "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 9, 2016.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g Ebert, Roger. "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" Archived 2010-09-26 at the Wayback Machine on the Roger Ebert's Film Festival website, comments originally written for Film Comment in 1980.
  9. ^ Channing 'Frizzy' in Next Opus Chicago Tribune 24 June 1968: b10.
  10. ^ Smog Gets the Blame Again NORMA LEE BROWNING. Chicago Tribune 20 Nov 1968: b1.
  11. ^ 20 FILMS SCHEDULED FOR SHOOTING AT FOX Los Angeles Times 23 June 1969: c18.
  12. ^ a b Some New Faces in Crowd at Warner's Haber, Joyce. Los Angeles Times 20 Aug 1969: e17.
  13. ^ MOVE CALL SHEET: Director for 'Dolls' Sequel Martin, Betty. Los Angeles Times 26 Aug 1969: d17.
  14. ^ a b c d e f g King of the Nudies on Biggest Film Caper Yet Thomas, Kevin. Los Angeles Times 30 Nov 1969: s18.
  15. ^ a b c d Russ Meyer: Ten Years After the 'Beyond' Ebert, Roger. Film Comment; New York Vol. 16, Iss. 4, (Jul/Aug 1980): 43-48,80.
  16. ^ a b RUSS MEYER: King of the Nudies Ebert, Roger. Film Comment; New York Vol. 9, Iss. 1, (Jan/Feb 1973): 35-46.
  17. ^ Character Actor to Star Los Angeles Times 13 Sep 1969: a9.
  18. ^ Ebert, Roger (2003). Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004. Andrews McMeel Publishing. p. 820. ISBN 0-7407-3834-8.
  19. ^ McDonough, Jimmy (2006). Big Bosoms & Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film. Vintage. p. 258. ISBN 0-09-946464-0.
  20. ^ McDonough 2006 pp.257, 262
  21. ^ McDonough 2006 p.271
  22. ^ "Mondo Culto: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls". Archived from the original on December 7, 2008.
  23. ^ DCD Special Edition. Beyond The Valley of the Dolls (Media notes). 20th Century Fox. 2007. p. 2.
  24. ^ Oh, Those Beautiful Dolls! By ALJEAN HARMETZHOLLYWOOD.. New York Times 21 Dec 1969: D17.
  25. ^ Cynthia's Fate: Poster A Commentary By Nicholas von Hoffman. The Washington Post, Times Herald 06 Nov 1969: D1.
  26. ^ PAM GRIER IS SHEDDING HER REDUNDANT IMAGE Hunt, Dennis. Los Angeles Times 12 Mar 1981: h1.
  27. ^ Crouse, Richard (2003). The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen. ECW Press. p. 23. ISBN 1-55022-590-1.
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  29. ^ a b Beyond the Valley of the Dolls: The Original Soundtrack. Liner notes from audio CD. Stu Phillips and Alex Patterson. Harkit: HRKCD 8032, 2003
  30. ^ "Jacq. Susann Loses 'Beyond Dolls' Claim". Variety. June 17, 1970. p. 2.
  31. ^ Haines, Richard W. (2003). The Moviegoing Experience, 1968-2001. McFarland. p. 48. ISBN 0-7864-1361-1.
  32. ^ Susann Suing. The Washington Post, Times Herald 28 Apr 1970: B16.
  33. ^ Frasier, David K. (1997). Russ Meyer--The Life and Films: A Biography and a Comprehensive, Illustrated and Annotated Filmography and Bibliography. McFarland. p. 132. ISBN 0-786-48063-7.
  34. ^ Criterion Announces September Titles Blu-ray.com 16 June 2016
  35. ^ Siskel, Gene (July 14, 1970). "Beyond the Valley". Chicago Tribune. p. II-3 – via Newspapers.com.
  36. ^ Siskel, Gene (January 10, 1971). "And Now—The 20 Worst Films of 1970". Chicago Tribune. p. V-I – via Newspapers.com.
  37. ^ Canby, Vincent (June 27, 1970). "Screen: 'Beyond the Valley of the Dolls'". The New York Times: 19.
  38. ^ "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls". Variety: 20. June 24, 1970.
  39. ^ Champlin, Charles (June 18, 1970). "Sexploiteer Hitchhikes on 'Dolls' Title". Los Angeles Times. Part IV, p. 1.
  40. ^ Arnold, Gary (July 11, 1970). "'Beyond Dolls' Beyond Worst". The Washington Post: C1.
  41. ^ Wallington, Mike (March 1971). "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 38 (446): 45.
  42. ^ John Waters' Closet Picks, retrieved 2021-02-21
  43. ^ Best Films of the 1970s Archived May 10, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  44. ^ "100 Best Films - Village Voice". Filmsite.org. 2000-01-04. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
  45. ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/beyond_the_valley_of_the_dolls
  46. ^ Silverman, Stephen M (1988). The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox. L. Stuart. p. 329.
  47. ^ "All-time Film Rental Champs". Variety. 7 January 1976. p. 44.
  48. ^ Dissidents Plan Proxy Battle for Fox Control: Lawyer, N.Y. Broker Vow to Alter 'Flight to Financial Ruin' Dissidents Plan Fight for Fox Wood, Robert E. Los Angeles Times 10 Mar 1971: c7.

External links[edit]

  • Beyond the Valley of the Dolls at the American Film Institute Catalog
  • Beyond the Valley of the Dolls at IMDb
  • Beyond the Valley of the Dolls at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Beyond the Valley of the Dolls at AllMovie
  • Beyond the Valley of the Dolls at the TCM Movie Database
  • McFarland Publisher's Movie Talk from the Front lines: the cast reunion of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
  • Beyond the Valley of the Dolls: “My Happening” an essay by Glenn Kenny at the Criterion Collection