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* ShoutOut: When Neely is at the sanitarium, a fellow patient warns her that they are constantly under surveillance by the nurses, saying "You've got to remember, [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Big Brother is everywhere, always watching.]]"
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It follows the lives of three women (Anne Welles, Neely O'Hara, and Jennifer North) from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s. They start out as roommates in New York, and each of them achieves fame and fortune in the cutthroat world of show business, with plenty of ups and downs along the way, particularly where their love lives are concerned. While one might think "Dolls" refers to these leading ladies, it is a slang term for pills -- particularly sleeping pills and weight loss pills -- and almost everyone in the book pops them like candy...[[note]]The term "dolls" may come from dolophine, a form of methadone also used as a painkiller and sleep aid, and very addictive.[[/note]]
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It follows the lives of three women (Anne -- Anne Welles, Neely O'Hara, and Jennifer North) North -- from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s. They start out as roommates in New York, and each of them achieves fame and fortune in the cutthroat world of show business, with plenty of ups and downs along the way, particularly where their love lives are concerned. While one might think "Dolls" refers to these leading ladies, it is a slang term for pills -- particularly sleeping pills and weight loss pills -- and almost everyone in the book pops them like candy...[[note]]The term "dolls" may come from dolophine, a form of methadone also used as a painkiller and sleep aid, and very addictive.[[/note]]
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It follows the lives of three women (Anne Welles, Neely O'Hara, and Jennifer North) from the late 1940's to the mid-1960's. They start out as roommates in New York, and each of them achieves fame and fortune in the cutthroat world of show business, with plenty of ups and downs along the way, particularly where their love lives are concerned. While one might think "Dolls" refers to these leading ladies, it is a slang term for pills -- particularly sleeping pills and weight loss pills -- and almost everyone in the book pops them like candy...[[note]]The term "dolls" may come from dolophine, a form of methadone also used as a painkiller and sleep aid, and very addictive.[[/note]]
The novel was wildly popular upon publication (thanks largely to its juicy HorribleHollywood detailing), and had two film adaptations. The first adaptation in 1967 starred Barbara Parkins, Creator/PattyDuke, Creator/SharonTate, Paul Burke, Martin Milner, and Creator/SusanHayward, and -- just like its source material -- was [[CriticalDissonance hated by critics yet a huge box-office hit]]; today it's seen as a SoBadItsGood CultClassic. The second adaptation was a MadeForTVMovie in 1981. The first adaptation also had a parody pseudo-sequel, ''Film/BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls'', in 1970, helmed by 60's and 70's schlockmeister Russ Meyer.
The novel was wildly popular upon publication (thanks largely to its juicy HorribleHollywood detailing), and had two film adaptations. The first adaptation in 1967 starred Barbara Parkins, Creator/PattyDuke, Creator/SharonTate, Paul Burke, Martin Milner, and Creator/SusanHayward, and -- just like its source material -- was [[CriticalDissonance hated by critics yet a huge box-office hit]]; today it's seen as a SoBadItsGood CultClassic. The second adaptation was a MadeForTVMovie in 1981. The first adaptation also had a parody pseudo-sequel, ''Film/BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls'', in 1970, helmed by 60's and 70's schlockmeister Russ Meyer.
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It follows the lives of three women (Anne Welles, Neely O'Hara, and Jennifer North) from the late 1940's 1940s to the mid-1960's.mid 1960s. They start out as roommates in New York, and each of them achieves fame and fortune in the cutthroat world of show business, with plenty of ups and downs along the way, particularly where their love lives are concerned. While one might think "Dolls" refers to these leading ladies, it is a slang term for pills -- particularly sleeping pills and weight loss pills -- and almost everyone in the book pops them like candy...[[note]]The term "dolls" may come from dolophine, a form of methadone also used as a painkiller and sleep aid, and very addictive.[[/note]]
The novel was wildly popular upon publication (thanks largely to its juicy HorribleHollywood detailing), and had two [[TheFilmOfTheBook filmadaptations. adaptations]]. The first adaptation first, made in 1967 1967, was directed by Mark Robson and starred Barbara Parkins, Creator/PattyDuke, Creator/SharonTate, Creator/LeeGrant, Paul Burke, Martin Milner, and Creator/SusanHayward, and -- just Creator/SusanHayward. Just like its source material -- material, it was [[CriticalDissonance hated by critics yet a huge box-office hit]]; today it's seen as a SoBadItsGood CultClassic. The second adaptation was a MadeForTVMovie in 1981. The first adaptation also had a 1970 parody pseudo-sequel, ''Film/BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls'', in 1970, helmed screenwritten by 60's Creator/RogerEbert and 70's directed by famed schlockmeister Russ Meyer.
Creator/RussMeyer.
The novel was wildly popular upon publication (thanks largely to its juicy HorribleHollywood detailing), and had two [[TheFilmOfTheBook film
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* Senator Winston Adams stands in for either JFK or RFK.
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* AwardBaitSong: "(Theme From) Valley of the Dolls" by Dionne Warwick.
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* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Neely cruelly ends things with Mel for little other reason than the fact that she's bored with him being so devoted with her. (This bothers the observing Jennifer, who [[NotSoDifferent is in the same place as Mel]], both being homemaking spouses at this point)
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* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Neely cruelly ends things with Mel for little other reason than the fact that she's bored with him being so devoted with her. (This bothers the observing Jennifer, who [[NotSoDifferent is in the same place as Mel]], Mel, both being homemaking spouses at this point)
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* SuicideByPills: Infamously, [[spoiler:Jennifer overdoses on sleeping pills when she learns she'll have to get a mastectomy because doing so would ruin her looks despite saving her life. The idea that she was only valuable because of her looks was reinforced by her husband revealing himself to be just another man who only cared for her looks, praising her breasts in particular.]]
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* AnAesop:
** Fame sucks, and Hollywood isn't fun and games; it's hard work, and full of horrible, shallow, unfaithful people.
** If someone has made no effort to be with you and everyone has warned you how flaky they are, don't let chemistry and nostalgia make you hold a torch for them for years; move on with your life, because even if they do return, it might not be everything you hoped and dreamed of.
** Fame sucks, and Hollywood isn't fun and games; it's hard work, and full of horrible, shallow, unfaithful people.
** If someone has made no effort to be with you and everyone has warned you how flaky they are, don't let chemistry and nostalgia make you hold a torch for them for years; move on with your life, because even if they do return, it might not be everything you hoped and dreamed of.
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* {{Cuckold}}: [[spoiler:Anne becomes this after Lyon begins an affair with Neely.]] Both of them make the affair extremely obvious, hoping that she'll demand a divorce, but on Henry's advice she pretends to not notice anything in a bid to keep Lyon around. ''Everybody'' knows, however, and she's humiliated every time she has to go out and pretend she sees nothing.
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* YourCheatingHeart: It would almost be quicker to name who ''hasn't'' cheated. Anne cheats on Allen with Lyon (though in fairness, she never really wanted to be involved with him anyway), and also cheats on Kevin with him; Neely cheats on Mel with Ted, who then cheats on her with women ''and'' men; Tony cheats on Jennifer with random singers he encounters; Helen Lawson is constantly cheated on, and cheated on the one husband she ever truly loved; [[spoiler:Lyon cheats on Anne with Neely, and then continues a long string of affairs when they're married.]]
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The film never clarities how the three girls met and takes it for granted that they’re already friends from the start, but in the novel it’s explained that they were roommates when they first arrived in New York City.
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* ExtremeDoormat: Anne just can't tell Allen no after he basically forces her to get engaged to him. While she's pressured to stay with him by the press and her friends, it's nevertheless difficult to imagine someone like Neely in the same situation. And when she tries to stand up for herself, refusing to give up New York to return to Lawrenceville so that he can use her mother's house to jumpstart his writing career, he breaks up with her. [[spoiler:She even puts up with his affair with her ex-best friend despite them having a child together, unable to give him up.]]
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* ExtremeDoormat: Anne just can't tell Allen no after he basically forces her to get engaged to him. While she's pressured to stay with him by the press and her friends, it's nevertheless difficult to imagine someone like Neely in the same situation. And when she tries to stand up for herself, herself to Lyon, refusing to give up New York to return to Lawrenceville so that he can use her mother's house to jumpstart his writing career, he breaks up with her. [[spoiler:She even puts up with his affair with her ex-best friend despite them having a child together, unable to give him up.]]
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* InsecureLoveInterest: [[spoiler:Neely's affair with Lyon in spades. She refuses to go anywhere without him, wants him spending every night with her, and wheedles him over the phone to assure her that she loves him more than anyone, including his own wife and baby.]] ''He complies.'' Though it does sour his opinion of her.
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* InsecureLoveInterest: [[spoiler:Neely's affair with Lyon in spades. She refuses to go anywhere without him, wants him spending every night with her, and wheedles him over the phone to assure her that she he loves him her more than anyone, including his own wife and baby.]] ''He complies.'' Though it does sour his opinion of her.
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* SleepingSingle: Despite years of being together, Anne and Kevin sleep in separate beds at Anne's demand, highlighting her lack of passion for him.
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It follows the lives of three women (Anne Welles, Neely O'Hara, and Jennifer North) from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. They start out as roommates in New York, and each of them achieves fame and fortune in the cutthroat world of show business, with plenty of ups and downs along the way, particularly where their love lives are concerned. While one might think "Dolls" refers to these leading ladies, it is a slang term for pills -- particularly sleeping pills and weight loss pills -- and almost everyone in the book pops them like candy...[[note]]The term "dolls" may come from dolophine, a form of methadone also used as a painkiller and sleep aid, and very addictive.[[/note]]
The novel was wildly popular upon publication (thanks largely to its juicy HorribleHollywood detailing), and had two film adaptations. The first adaptation in 1967 starred Barbara Parkins, Creator/PattyDuke, Creator/SharonTate, Paul Burke, Martin Milner, and Creator/SusanHayward, and -- just like its source material -- was [[CriticalDissonance hated by critics yet a huge box-office hit]]; today it's seen as a SoBadItsGood CultClassic. The second adaptation was a MadeForTVMovie in 1981. The first adaptation also had a parody pseudo-sequel, ''Film/BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls'', in 1970, helmed by '60s/'70s schlockmeister Russ Meyer.
The novel was wildly popular upon publication (thanks largely to its juicy HorribleHollywood detailing), and had two film adaptations. The first adaptation in 1967 starred Barbara Parkins, Creator/PattyDuke, Creator/SharonTate, Paul Burke, Martin Milner, and Creator/SusanHayward, and -- just like its source material -- was [[CriticalDissonance hated by critics yet a huge box-office hit]]; today it's seen as a SoBadItsGood CultClassic. The second adaptation was a MadeForTVMovie in 1981. The first adaptation also had a parody pseudo-sequel, ''Film/BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls'', in 1970, helmed by '60s/'70s schlockmeister Russ Meyer.
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It follows the lives of three women (Anne Welles, Neely O'Hara, and Jennifer North) from the late 1940s 1940's to the mid-1960s.mid-1960's. They start out as roommates in New York, and each of them achieves fame and fortune in the cutthroat world of show business, with plenty of ups and downs along the way, particularly where their love lives are concerned. While one might think "Dolls" refers to these leading ladies, it is a slang term for pills -- particularly sleeping pills and weight loss pills -- and almost everyone in the book pops them like candy...[[note]]The term "dolls" may come from dolophine, a form of methadone also used as a painkiller and sleep aid, and very addictive.[[/note]]
The novel was wildly popular upon publication (thanks largely to its juicy HorribleHollywood detailing), and had two film adaptations. The first adaptation in 1967 starred Barbara Parkins, Creator/PattyDuke, Creator/SharonTate, Paul Burke, Martin Milner, and Creator/SusanHayward, and -- just like its source material -- was [[CriticalDissonance hated by critics yet a huge box-office hit]]; today it's seen as a SoBadItsGood CultClassic. The second adaptation was a MadeForTVMovie in 1981. The first adaptation also had a parody pseudo-sequel, ''Film/BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls'', in 1970, helmed by'60s/'70s 60's and 70's schlockmeister Russ Meyer.
The novel was wildly popular upon publication (thanks largely to its juicy HorribleHollywood detailing), and had two film adaptations. The first adaptation in 1967 starred Barbara Parkins, Creator/PattyDuke, Creator/SharonTate, Paul Burke, Martin Milner, and Creator/SusanHayward, and -- just like its source material -- was [[CriticalDissonance hated by critics yet a huge box-office hit]]; today it's seen as a SoBadItsGood CultClassic. The second adaptation was a MadeForTVMovie in 1981. The first adaptation also had a parody pseudo-sequel, ''Film/BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls'', in 1970, helmed by
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** It doesn't help that the guy she was with -- whom she'd believed to love ''her'' -- revealed himself to be just another man who only cared for her looks, praising her breasts in particular.
*** Actually stated outright in [[spoiler: one of her two suicide notes,]] where she states in the one addressed to her husband that she [[spoiler: did it to "save his babies" (this being his affectionate term for her breasts). However, he does have a nervous breakdown after her death, implying he did truly love her.]]
** It doesn't help that the guy she was with -- whom she'd believed to love ''her'' -- revealed himself to be just another man who only cared for her looks, praising her breasts in particular.
*** Actually stated outright in [[spoiler: one of her two suicide notes,]] where she states in the one addressed to her husband that she [[spoiler: did it to "save his babies" (this being his affectionate term for her breasts). However, he does have a nervous breakdown after her death, implying he did truly love her.]]
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: In the late going, [[spoiler: Jennifer commits suicide when she finds out that she has cancer and needs a mastectomy.]]
**]] It doesn't help that the guy she was with -- whom she'd believed to love ''her'' -- revealed himself to be just another man who only cared for her looks, praising her breasts in particular.
***particular. Actually stated outright in [[spoiler: one of her two suicide notes,]] where she states in the one addressed to her husband that she [[spoiler: did it to "save his babies" (this being his affectionate term for her breasts). However, he does have a nervous breakdown after her death, implying he did truly love her.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Helen Lawson. Though Anne is warned of this by several characters, Anne falls for her "sheep" act, feeling sorry for her and trying to be genuine friends with her, until Helen reveals that she was only interested in her as far as she could get her sexually involved with the father of Anne's fiance, Allen Cooper.
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** Helen Lawson. Though Anne is warned of this by several characters, Anne falls for her "sheep" act, feeling sorry for her and trying to be genuine friends with her, until Helen reveals that she was only interested in her as far as she could get her sexually involved with the father of Anne's fiance, Allen Cooper.
** Helen Lawson. Though Anne is warned of this by several characters, Anne falls for her "sheep" act, feeling sorry for her and trying to be genuine friends with her, until Helen reveals that she was only interested in her as far as she could get her sexually involved with the father of Anne's fiance, Allen Cooper.
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* TheBusCameBack: After Jennifer leaves Tony upon learning about his condition, he disappears from the narrative until [[spoiler:Neely runs into him in a sanitarium, his mind completely gone, and he inadvertently helps restart her career.]]
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** After Jennifer leaves Tony upon learning about his condition, he disappears from the narrative until [[spoiler:Neely runs into him in a sanitarium, his mind completely gone, and he inadvertently helps restart her career.]]
** After Jennifer leaves Tony upon learning about his condition, he disappears from the narrative until [[spoiler:Neely runs into him in a sanitarium, his mind completely gone, and he inadvertently helps restart her career.]]
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** In the film Neely is appalled that she's being replaced with a younger actress - saying she's only 26 (28 in the book).
** In the film Neely is appalled that she's being replaced with a younger actress - saying she's only 26 (28 in the book).
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* CompressedAdaptation: The novel takes place over twenty years - beginning in 1945 and finishing in 1965. The film clearly unfolds in a much shorter time frame. It's already the 60s when it starts.
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* CompressedAdaptation: The novel takes place over twenty years - beginning in 1945 and finishing in 1965. The film clearly unfolds in a much shorter time frame. It's already the 60s 60's when it starts.
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** Famously, [[spoiler:Jennifer overdoses on pills when she learns she'll have to get a mastectomy, ruining her looks even if it means saving her life.]]
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* {{Expy}}: Senator Winston Adams for either JFK or RFK.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: After hitting it big, Neely becomes extremely self-centered and shallow, only focusing on her own problems and work. [[spoiler:She becomes even worse during her final career resurrection, blatantly and openly screwing over Anne, her first real friend who helped get her her career, because she thinks it's her turn to have whatever she wants, even if it's her best friend's husband.]]
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** After hitting it big, Neely becomes extremely self-centered and shallow, only focusing on her own problems and work. [[spoiler:She becomes even worse during her final career resurrection, blatantly and openly screwing over Anne, her first real friend who helped get her her career, because she thinks it's her turn to have whatever she wants, even if it's her best friend's husband.]]
** After hitting it big, Neely becomes extremely self-centered and shallow, only focusing on her own problems and work. [[spoiler:She becomes even worse during her final career resurrection, blatantly and openly screwing over Anne, her first real friend who helped get her her career, because she thinks it's her turn to have whatever she wants, even if it's her best friend's husband.]]
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Quite a few. Susann spent the 1940s as a struggling actress, and drew on that experience while writing the book.
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* RagsToRiches: Anne starts the story a broke newcomer to New York, with a secretarial job, a tiny, shoddy apartment, and an extremely limited wardrobe. After investing the money she got from pawning Allen's engagement ring, and a successful partnership with a popular beauty brand, she goes into her late 30s with a big apartment, designer clothes, and so much money that she'll never have to work a day in her life again.
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* RagsToRiches: Anne starts the story a broke newcomer to New York, with a secretarial job, a tiny, shoddy apartment, and an extremely limited wardrobe. After investing the money she got from pawning Allen's engagement ring, and a successful partnership with a popular beauty brand, she goes into her late 30s thirties with a big apartment, designer clothes, and so much money that she'll never have to work a day in her life again.
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* UngratefulBastard: ''Neely.'' Anne facilitates her big break, then pays for her stay in a sanitarium and hatches a plot for her career return when she's released. [[spoiler:Neely pays her back after all of this by forcefully taking Lyon as a lover, gleefully humiliating Anne and refusing to even let him go home for the night.]]
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** ''Neely.'' Anne facilitates her big break, then pays for her stay in a sanitarium and hatches a plot for her career return when she's released. [[spoiler:Neely pays her back after all of this by forcefully taking Lyon as a lover, gleefully humiliating Anne and refusing to even let him go home for the night.]]
** ''Neely.'' Anne facilitates her big break, then pays for her stay in a sanitarium and hatches a plot for her career return when she's released. [[spoiler:Neely pays her back after all of this by forcefully taking Lyon as a lover, gleefully humiliating Anne and refusing to even let him go home for the night.]]
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* FromRagsToRiches: Anne starts the story a broke newcomer to New York, with a secretarial job, a tiny, shoddy apartment, and an extremely limited wardrobe. After investing the money she got from pawning Allen's engagement ring, and a successful partnership with a popular beauty brand, she goes into her late 30s with a big apartment, designer clothes, and so much money that she'll never have to work a day in her life again.
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* RagsToRiches: Anne starts the story a broke newcomer to New York, with a secretarial job, a tiny, shoddy apartment, and an extremely limited wardrobe. After investing the money she got from pawning Allen's engagement ring, and a successful partnership with a popular beauty brand, she goes into her late 30s with a big apartment, designer clothes, and so much money that she'll never have to work a day in her life again.
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* CareerVersusMan: Both Allen and Lyon pressure Anne to quit her job for Henry, which she genuinely likes -- Allen, because he doesn't think it's appropriate for the fiancee of someone like him to work, and Lyon, because he's too proud to be supported by a woman while he writes. Anne chooses her job both times.
* DisposableFiance: Allen. In Anne's defense, she never consented to being engaged, had no intentions of marrying him, and had always been in love with Lyon.
* FromRagsToRiches: Anne starts the story a broke newcomer to New York, with a secretarial job, a tiny, shoddy apartment, and an extremely limited wardrobe. After investing the money she got from pawning Allen's engagement ring, and a successful partnership with a popular beauty brand, she goes into her late 30s with a big apartment, designer clothes, and so much money that she'll never have to work a day in her life again.
** Lyon becomes increasingly self-centered as the novel goes on, forcing Anne to choose between the life in New York that she loves and him, even if it means being in the city she loathes and letting him support her, because he can't stand the idea of her fiscally supporting him (in his view, "controlling" him) -- essentially putting her in a tough spot to give up everything just to support his writing career, which he isn't even that good at.
* LimitedWardrobe: Anne is so broke when first moving to New York that she wears the exact same outfit and coat day after day. Only women seem to notice, as men are typically too distracted by her looks.
* RetailTherapy: Jennifer typically deals with her depressed feelings by blowing her money on new clothes, which she barely wears before handing it down to Anne.
* SecretlyWealthy: Allen, a millionaire, pretends to be a humble, small-time salesman to test whether or not Anne (who is oblivious to his status, despite everyone else in New York knowing) loves him, or his wealth. Of course, she actually loves neither.
* SecretlyWealthy: Allen, a millionaire, pretends to be a humble, small-time salesman to test whether or not Anne (who is oblivious to his status, despite everyone else in New York knowing) loves him, or his wealth. Of course, she actually loves neither.
* SpoiledBrat: [[DoggedNiceGuy Allen]] turns into a JerkAss when he learns Anne doesn't want to sleep with him and truly isn't interested in marrying him, as he thinks he should always get what he wants.
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* VirginShaming: Allen is horrified at the idea that Anne is a 20-year-old virgin saving it for someone special, saying that only "frigid" girls in the city hang onto their virginity that late.
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* UptownGirl: Gender-inverted. The wealthy eligible bachelor Allen falls for the broke ingenue Anne, and the newspapers all clamor to portray it as a truly romantic Cinderella story. Of course, Anne doesn't actually love him at all.
* VirginShaming: Allen is horrified at the idea that Anne is a 20-year-old virgin saving it for someone special, saying that only "frigid" girls in the city hang onto their virginity that late. To her credit, Anne isn't that bothered, and gets her wish.
* VirginShaming: Allen is horrified at the idea that Anne is a 20-year-old virgin saving it for someone special, saying that only "frigid" girls in the city hang onto their virginity that late. To her credit, Anne isn't that bothered, and gets her wish.
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* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Averted ''hard.'' [[spoiler:Jennifer thinks her relationship with Tony will be secure if she has his baby, only to learn he has a hereditary mental illness. Also, Anne hopes that her baby with Lyon will keep him around and away from affairs, but it doesn't even slow him down.]]
* BreakTheCutie: The novel is one long arc for Anne and Jennifer. Both start the book kind-hearted, well-meaning women, but [[spoiler:Jennifer, already down two failed marriages, several abortions, unwanted surgeries and treatments and a life of being used by her mother, kills herself after realizing she'll have to lose her body and her chance at children, and possibly her fiance in the process.]] Meanwhile, Anne starts off a naive ingenue desperately in love with Lyon, but loses him over and over again, and also loses one friend to death and the other to a psychiatric hospital. [[spoiler:She eventually gets Lyon back, and they get married and have a child, but he starts a brazen, humiliating affair with Neely, and after dumping her begins one with an actress half Anne's age, and she realizes numbly that he will never stop having affairs and will never love her, so her only respite become the "dolls."]]
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* ChristmasCake: In the film Neely is appalled that she's being replaced with a younger actress - saying she's only 26.
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* ChristmasCake: In the film Neely is appalled that she's being replaced with a younger actress - saying she's only 26.26 (28 in the book).
* {{Cuckold}}: [[spoiler:Anne becomes this after Lyon begins an affair with Neely.]] Both of them make the affair extremely obvious, hoping that she'll demand a divorce, but on Henry's advice she pretends to not notice anything in a bid to keep Lyon around. ''Everybody'' knows, however, and she's humiliated every time she has to go out and pretend she sees nothing.
* DeadGuyJunior: [[spoiler:Anne names her baby girl "Jennifer."]]
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* DownerEnding: For [[spoiler: all three protagonists in the book: Jennifer kills herself, Neely will probably destroy herself due to her personal and professional hangups, and though Anne gets the man she's been pining after for decades, they exist in a loveless marriage full of affairs.]] The FilmOfTheBook changes this to a more BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: while Jennifer is dead and Neely's downward spiral will likely kill her in the near future, Anne renounces the pills and the showbiz life and goes back to her beloved hometown to start over]].
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* DownerEnding: For [[spoiler: all three protagonists in the book: Jennifer kills herself, Neely will probably destroy herself due to her personal and professional hangups, and though Anne gets the man she's been pining after for decades, they exist in a loveless marriage full of affairs.affairs and betrayal on his part, and apart from her daughter she is completely alone and friendless.]] The FilmOfTheBook changes this to a more BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: while Jennifer is dead and Neely's downward spiral will likely kill her in the near future, Anne renounces the pills and the showbiz life and goes back to her beloved hometown to start over]].
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* ExtremeDoormat: Anne just can't tell Allen no after he basically forces her to get engaged to him. While she's pressured to stay with him by the press and her friends, it's nevertheless difficult to imagine someone like Neely in the same situation.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Anne, with the help of Lyon, gets her old friend Neely committed to a sanitarium to dry out and supports her after her release in her sobriety and trying to get her Broadway career back on track. Anne’s reward for this is discovering that Neely has begun an affair with Lyon and is flaunting it all over New York, AND being ridiculed in the gossip columns for it as "loser of the week".
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Anne, with the help of Lyon, gets her old friend Neely committed to a sanitarium to dry out and supports her after her release in her sobriety and trying to get her Broadway career back on track. Anne’s reward for this is discovering that Neely has begun an affair with Lyon and is flaunting it all over New York, AND being ridiculed in the gossip columns for it as "loser of the week".
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* ExtremeDoormat: Anne just can't tell Allen no after he basically forces her to get engaged to him. While she's pressured to stay with him by the press and her friends, it's nevertheless difficult to imagine someone like Neely in the same situation.
situation. And when she tries to stand up for herself, refusing to give up New York to return to Lawrenceville so that he can use her mother's house to jumpstart his writing career, he breaks up with her. [[spoiler:She even puts up with his affair with her ex-best friend despite them having a child together, unable to give him up.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Neely. [[spoiler:By the end of the novel, there's almost no traces of the friendly, scrappy girl we were introduced to, being replaced by a conniving, selfish, bitter, insecure AlphaBitch who betrays Anne without a second thought to anybody's happiness except her own.]]
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Anne, with the help of Lyon, gets her old friend Neely committed to a sanitarium to dry out and supports her after her release in her sobriety and trying to get her Broadway career back on track. Anne’s reward for this is discovering thatNeely [[spoiler:Neely has begun an affair with Lyon and is flaunting it all over New York, AND being ridiculed in the gossip columns for it as "loser of the week".]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Neely. [[spoiler:By the end of the novel, there's almost no traces of the friendly, scrappy girl we were introduced to, being replaced by a conniving, selfish, bitter, insecure AlphaBitch who betrays Anne without a second thought to anybody's happiness except her own.]]
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Anne, with the help of Lyon, gets her old friend Neely committed to a sanitarium to dry out and supports her after her release in her sobriety and trying to get her Broadway career back on track. Anne’s reward for this is discovering that
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Anne and Jennifer, two of the nicest characters in the book, both have blond hair.
* HatedHometown: Anne ''hates'' Lawrenceville and moves to New York to start fresh. The thought of returning to it permanently disgusts her so much that she accepts Lyon, the love of her life, leaving her if it means she doesn't have to stay there with him.
* HatedHometown: Anne ''hates'' Lawrenceville and moves to New York to start fresh. The thought of returning to it permanently disgusts her so much that she accepts Lyon, the love of her life, leaving her if it means she doesn't have to stay there with him.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: After hitting it big, Neely becomes extremely self-centered and shallow, only focusing on her own problems and work.
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* InsecureLoveInterest: [[spoiler:Neely's affair with Lyon in spades. She refuses to go anywhere without him, wants him spending every night with her, and wheedles him over the phone to assure her that she loves him more than anyone, including his own wife and baby.]] ''He complies.'' Though it does sour his opinion of her.
* {{Irony}}: Anne turns down a chance at marriage with both Allen and Kevin, holding out a torch for FirstLove Lyon, unable to forget about their chemistry and unwilling to be with a man she doesn't love. [[spoiler:When the novel ends, and she and Lyon have been married for years, there's zero passion between them as Lyon carries on numerous affairs, and she holds out for the inevitability of falling completely out of love with him.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: After hitting it big, Neely becomes extremely self-centered and shallow, only focusing on her own problems and work. [[spoiler:She becomes even worse during her final career resurrection, blatantly and openly screwing over Anne, her first real friend who helped get her her career, because she thinks it's her turn to have whatever she wants, even if it's her best friend's husband.]]
* {{Irony}}: Anne turns down a chance at marriage with both Allen and Kevin, holding out a torch for FirstLove Lyon, unable to forget about their chemistry and unwilling to be with a man she doesn't love. [[spoiler:When the novel ends, and she and Lyon have been married for years, there's zero passion between them as Lyon carries on numerous affairs, and she holds out for the inevitability of falling completely out of love with him.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: After hitting it big, Neely becomes extremely self-centered and shallow, only focusing on her own problems and work. [[spoiler:She becomes even worse during her final career resurrection, blatantly and openly screwing over Anne, her first real friend who helped get her her career, because she thinks it's her turn to have whatever she wants, even if it's her best friend's husband.]]
* LoveHurts: Seriously, there's not a good love story in here. If you're a faithful and loyal partner, expect to get cheated on and betrayed.
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* MarriageOfConvenience: Despite being in a relationship with her for over a decade, Kevin doesn't propose to Anne until after he suffers a heart attack -- less to do with him realizing his love for her on death's door and more to do with him wanting someone around at night in case he suffers another attack.
* MayDecemberRomance: Anne and Kevin Gillmore, and Jennifer and both Claude and Winston. [[spoiler:In the end, the middle-aged Lyon starts an affair with a nineteen-year-old singer.]]
* MayDecemberRomance: Anne and Kevin Gillmore, and Jennifer and both Claude and Winston. [[spoiler:In the end, the middle-aged Lyon starts an affair with a nineteen-year-old singer.]]
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:In the end, Anne finally gets Lyon as a husband, a baby, and lives a wealthy life in the city of her dreams... Except she has no friends, her money is entirely dependent on the work of her husband who now hates her and carries on affairs, and she herself becomes dependent on the "dolls," hoping to one day just become numb to everything.]]
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* StepfordSmiler: Anne becomes this, [[spoiler:watching the love of her life cheat on her again and again, knowing she's wasted her life waiting for him]]. The drugs help.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Neely starts out a scrappy and tough, but good-hearted and hardworking showgirl who puts in the effort to get ahead and make a name for herself, and who's loyal to her friends and boyfriend. After the timeskip, she's an entitled AlphaBitch who makes life hell for everyone on set, who dumps her chump of a husband for being too boring for the guy she's having an affair with, and who's too self-centered to care about anybody's problems but her own. Everyone remarks that she UsedToBeASweetKid, and Anne hardly recognizes her.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Neely starts out a scrappy and tough, but good-hearted and hardworking showgirl who puts in the effort to get ahead and make a name for herself, and who's loyal to her friends and boyfriend. After the timeskip, she's an entitled AlphaBitch who makes life hell for everyone on set, who dumps her chump of a husband for being too boring for the guy she's having an affair with, and who's too self-centered to care about anybody's problems but her own. Everyone remarks that she UsedToBeASweetKid, and Anne hardly recognizes her.
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* StepfordSmiler: Anne becomes this, [[spoiler:watching the love of her life cheat on her again and again, knowing she's wasted her life waiting for him]].him, because Henry has advised her to just smile and pretend like the obvious, brazen affair with Neely isn't happening because it means he'll be more likely to return to her in the end]]. The drugs help.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Anne notes that Lyon is very tall and well-built, with thick dark hair and seemingly permanently tanned skin.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Neely starts out a scrappy and tough, but good-hearted and hardworking showgirl who puts in the effort to get ahead and make a name for herself, and who's loyal to her friends and boyfriend. After the timeskip, she's an entitled AlphaBitch who makes life hell for everyone on set, who dumps her chump of a husband for being too boring for the guy she's having an affair with, and who's too self-centered to care about anybody's problems but her own. Everyone remarks that she UsedToBeASweetKid, and Anne hardly recognizes her. [[spoiler:Then she goes UpToEleven after Anne secures yet another career resurrection for her, blatantly carrying on an affair with Lyon without a shred of empathy for Anne's feelings. She even withholds information about their daughter's hospitalization from Lyon, thinking Anne knows about the affair and is trying to get Lyon home.]]
* UngratefulBastard: ''Neely.'' Anne facilitates her big break, then pays for her stay in a sanitarium and hatches a plot for her career return when she's released. [[spoiler:Neely pays her back after all of this by forcefully taking Lyon as a lover, gleefully humiliating Anne and refusing to even let him go home for the night.]]
** Yes, it was wrong of Anne to [[spoiler:hide her involvement in Lyon's loan because she doesn't want to hurt his pride by making him feel like he owes her,]] but she genuinely does it out of love and trying to help him, especially considering he's little more than a failure as an author, his passion. [[spoiler:He completely flips out on her because of it, feeling emasculated and controlled, and it spurs on his decision to leave with Neely and start an affair.]] Henry ''did'' warn her that he's too old-fashioned to allow himself to be supported by his partner, but he does come off as an AdultChild JerkAss because of it.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Anne notes that Lyon is very tall and well-built, with thick dark hair and seemingly permanently tanned skin.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Neely starts out a scrappy and tough, but good-hearted and hardworking showgirl who puts in the effort to get ahead and make a name for herself, and who's loyal to her friends and boyfriend. After the timeskip, she's an entitled AlphaBitch who makes life hell for everyone on set, who dumps her chump of a husband for being too boring for the guy she's having an affair with, and who's too self-centered to care about anybody's problems but her own. Everyone remarks that she UsedToBeASweetKid, and Anne hardly recognizes her. [[spoiler:Then she goes UpToEleven after Anne secures yet another career resurrection for her, blatantly carrying on an affair with Lyon without a shred of empathy for Anne's feelings. She even withholds information about their daughter's hospitalization from Lyon, thinking Anne knows about the affair and is trying to get Lyon home.]]
* UngratefulBastard: ''Neely.'' Anne facilitates her big break, then pays for her stay in a sanitarium and hatches a plot for her career return when she's released. [[spoiler:Neely pays her back after all of this by forcefully taking Lyon as a lover, gleefully humiliating Anne and refusing to even let him go home for the night.]]
** Yes, it was wrong of Anne to [[spoiler:hide her involvement in Lyon's loan because she doesn't want to hurt his pride by making him feel like he owes her,]] but she genuinely does it out of love and trying to help him, especially considering he's little more than a failure as an author, his passion. [[spoiler:He completely flips out on her because of it, feeling emasculated and controlled, and it spurs on his decision to leave with Neely and start an affair.]] Henry ''did'' warn her that he's too old-fashioned to allow himself to be supported by his partner, but he does come off as an AdultChild JerkAss because of it.
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* TheDeterminator: [[spoiler:While trapped in a sanitarium, Neely is thrown in a bath as punishment. Unwilling to submit, she briefly breaks out after ripping a massive hole in the bath's canvas, which the nurses exclaim has never happened before.]]
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* WeightWoe: Neely's career forces her to obsess over her weight, and she starts smoking and stops eating to curb her appetite. Whenever she stops working she takes to bingeing, and her weight yo-yos between overweight and worryingly thin during the course of the novel.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[spoiler:Subverted with Jennifer,, who truly wanted to keep the baby but had to abort her and Tony's child due to medical reasons; she didn't want the child to be diagnosed with Huntington's Chorea, which is hereditary.]]
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[spoiler:Subverted with Jennifer,, Jennifer, who truly wanted to keep the baby but had to abort her and Tony's child due to medical reasons; she didn't want the child to be diagnosed with Huntington's Chorea, which is hereditary.]]]] Note that towards the end of her arc, she mentions that she had ''seven'' abortions.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: After hitting it big, Neely becomes extremely self-centered and shallow, only focusing on her own problems and work.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Neely starts out a scrappy and tough, but good-hearted and hardworking showgirl who puts in the effort to get ahead and make a name for herself, and who's loyal to her friends and boyfriend. After the timeskip, she's an entitled AlphaBitch who makes life hell for everyone on set, who dumps her chump of a husband for being too boring for the guy she's having an affair with, and who's too self-centered to care about anybody's problems but her own. Everyone remarks that she UsedToBeASweetKid, and Anne hardly recognizes her.
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* WideEyedIdealist: Despite living in a CrapsackWorld full of unfaithful partners and people who [[BitchInSheepsClothing aren't what they're cracked up to be]], Anne not only insists on seeing the best in other people and doing right, but also holds a torch for Lyon, refusing to move on from him even when in a new relationship and believing in their love. [[spoiler:Neely ends up stabbing her in the back after Anne saves her and her career, and Lyon himself turns out to be a cheating scumbag.]]
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* TheBabyTrap: Neely complains that Mel has been failing to pull out during intercourse, and she suspects he wants her barefoot and pregnant.
** Jennifer tricks Tony into getting her pregnant, thinking it'll end their troubles with Miriam. It ends up just making everything worse.
** Jennifer tricks Tony into getting her pregnant, thinking it'll end their troubles with Miriam. It ends up just making everything worse.
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* CelebrityIsOverrated: All Jennifer wants is a happy life with a husband and a baby. Neely likes being on top, but her life is full of long, stressful days (made worse by her being almost non-functional on set), insincere relationships and addiction; despite all the money she's made, most of it is tied up in expenses and taxes, so she has a lot less than she lets on.
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* DescentIntoAddiction: Primarily for Jennifer and Neely, and eventually for Anne as well. Jennifer starts needing pills, or "dolls," to get to sleep, while Neely takes them both to sleep and wake up, and after her career suspension she overdoses multiple times and gets addicted to even harder barbiturates while abroad.
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* LawOfInverseFertility: Played with. Jennifer has had seven abortions, and notes that it must mean that her womb is open and ready for her to finally have a baby, but she has trouble finding someone to have a child with.
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* ThePrimaDonna: Neely is noted to be a pain in the ass on set, frequently walking out, faking illnesses and throwing fits whenever she feels slighted. Though she's still a hit at the box office, her movies end up losing money because she puts the production way over budget.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Anne and Lyon. The latter doesn't want marriage so they part on amicable terms, but keep coming back to each other over the years. Every time one of them is unwilling to make the relationship work.
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* AdultChild: At first Tony is a straight example of this trope, being sex-obsessed, loose with money and only interested in getting his own pleasures met. [[spoiler:Then his sister reveals that he had to be pulled out of school before first grade and can barely read or count due to an inherited disease, and that he will likely be stunted for his entire life.]]
* AllLoveIsUnrequited:Anne Jennifer straight-out says that one can either be loved in a relationship, or love, but never both, and Lyon. The latter doesn't want marriage so they part on amicable terms, but keep coming back that it's best to each other over the years. Every time one of them is unwilling to make the relationship work.just settle for being loved.
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*** Actually stated outright in [[spoiler: one of her two suicide notes,]] where she states in the one addressed to her husband that she [[spoiler: did it to "save his babies" (this being his affectionate term for her breasts).]]
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*** Actually stated outright in [[spoiler: one of her two suicide notes,]] where she states in the one addressed to her husband that she [[spoiler: did it to "save his babies" (this being his affectionate term for her breasts). However, he does have a nervous breakdown after her death, implying he did truly love her.]]
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* BlondeBrunetteRedhead:...sort of. In the film version, Jennifer is played by blonde Sharon Tate, Anne is portrayed by (dark brown) brunette Barbara Parkins and Neely is played by auburn-haired Creator/PattyDuke. This is canon.
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* BlondeBrunetteRedhead:...BitchInSheepsClothing: Helen Lawson. Though Anne is warned of this by several characters, Anne falls for her "sheep" act, feeling sorry for her and trying to be genuine friends with her, until Helen reveals that she was only interested in her as far as she could get her sexually involved with the father of Anne's fiance, Allen Cooper.
** [[spoiler:Lyon]] is a more subtle variant. [[spoiler:Though he sets himself up to be a genial, elegant gentleman, it's clear he has no emotional maturity and is only own to get his own needs met.]]
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: ...sort of. In the film version, Jennifer is played by blonde Sharon Tate, Anne is portrayed by (dark brown) brunette Barbara Parkins and Neely is played by auburn-haired Creator/PattyDuke. This iscanon.
canon. In the book, Jennifer and Anne are blondes and Neely has brown hair.
*CastingCouchTheBusCameBack: After Jennifer leaves Tony upon learning about his condition, he disappears from the narrative until [[spoiler:Neely runs into him in a sanitarium, his mind completely gone, and he inadvertently helps restart her career.]]
** Allen returns towards the end of the book, balding but otherwise satisfied and married to another woman.
* CastingCouch: The Head ensures that Neely is fired so that a young up-and-coming starlet who's sleeping with him can take her place.
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* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: ...sort of. In the film version, Jennifer is played by blonde Sharon Tate, Anne is portrayed by (dark brown) brunette Barbara Parkins and Neely is played by auburn-haired Creator/PattyDuke. This is
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** Allen returns towards the end of the book, balding but otherwise satisfied and married to another woman.
* CastingCouch: The Head ensures that Neely is fired so that a young up-and-coming starlet who's sleeping with him can take her place.
** Jennifer is keenly aware of becoming this, given the fact that she's lying about her age, and consents to controversial treatments and mostly-unnecessary plastic surgery to keep looking youthful.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Jennifer's lover Maria was this, becoming extremely possessive of her and refusing to let her leave or make new friends or lovers. Jennifer ends up having to escape her.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Jennifer's lover Maria was this, becoming extremely possessive of her and refusing to let her leave or make new friends or lovers. Jennifer ends up having to escape her.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Apparent with Jennifer and implied with Neely. The former suffers both verbal abuse and overall disinterest from both her mother ''and'' her grandmother and the latter is implied to have suffered physical abuse.
* DoubleStandard: Said by [[JerkassHasAPoint Neely]]: "When a man says he won't do a scene, that's called 'integrity'; when a woman says she won't do a scene, she's being temperamental."
* DownerEnding: For [[spoiler: all three protagonists]]. The FilmOfTheBook changes this to a more BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: while Jennifer is dead and Neely's downward spiral will likely kill her in the near future, Anne renounces the pills and the showbiz life and goes back to her beloved hometown to start over]].
* DoubleStandard: Said by [[JerkassHasAPoint Neely]]: "When a man says he won't do a scene, that's called 'integrity'; when a woman says she won't do a scene, she's being temperamental."
* DownerEnding: For [[spoiler: all three protagonists]]. The FilmOfTheBook changes this to a more BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: while Jennifer is dead and Neely's downward spiral will likely kill her in the near future, Anne renounces the pills and the showbiz life and goes back to her beloved hometown to start over]].
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Apparent with Jennifer and implied with Neely. The former suffers both verbal abuse and overall disinterest from both her mother ''and'' her grandmother grandmother, and was basically kept captive by her lesbian lover while in Europe, and the latter is implied to have suffered physical abuse.
abuse and lived a life of poverty while touring.
* DisneylandDad: After her divorce from Ted, Neely is embittered by the fact that her twins are only ever interested in her for her potential to get them presents.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Allen is determined to marry Anne, despite her repeated assertions that she's not interested in him. He even flat-out tells her that he gets everything he wants, and she'll be included in that, too.
* DoubleStandard: Said by [[JerkassHasAPoint Neely]]: "When a man says he won't do a scene, that's called 'integrity'; when a woman says she won't do a scene, she's being temperamental."
" Though this is undercut in the book, where it's underscored how much of a primadonna she is on set.
* DownerEnding: For [[spoiler: all threeprotagonists]]. protagonists in the book: Jennifer kills herself, Neely will probably destroy herself due to her personal and professional hangups, and though Anne gets the man she's been pining after for decades, they exist in a loveless marriage full of affairs.]] The FilmOfTheBook changes this to a more BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: while Jennifer is dead and Neely's downward spiral will likely kill her in the near future, Anne renounces the pills and the showbiz life and goes back to her beloved hometown to start over]].over]].
* DrivenToSuicide: Famously, [[spoiler:Jennifer overdoses on pills when she learns she'll have to get a mastectomy, ruining her looks even if it means saving her life.]]
** [[spoiler:Neely bungles a self-harm attempt that makes everyone think she's attempted suicide, which gets her committed.]]
* DisneylandDad: After her divorce from Ted, Neely is embittered by the fact that her twins are only ever interested in her for her potential to get them presents.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Allen is determined to marry Anne, despite her repeated assertions that she's not interested in him. He even flat-out tells her that he gets everything he wants, and she'll be included in that, too.
* DoubleStandard: Said by [[JerkassHasAPoint Neely]]: "When a man says he won't do a scene, that's called 'integrity'; when a woman says she won't do a scene, she's being temperamental.
* DownerEnding: For [[spoiler: all three
* DrivenToSuicide: Famously, [[spoiler:Jennifer overdoses on pills when she learns she'll have to get a mastectomy, ruining her looks even if it means saving her life.]]
** [[spoiler:Neely bungles a self-harm attempt that makes everyone think she's attempted suicide, which gets her committed.]]
* ExtremeDoormat: Anne just can't tell Allen no after he basically forces her to get engaged to him. While she's pressured to stay with him by the press and her friends, it's nevertheless difficult to imagine someone like Neely in the same situation.
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** Played straight with Jennifer and Tony. [[spoiler: Sadly, his illness and her eventual suicide put an end to their short-lived happiness.]]
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** Played straight with Jennifer and Tony.Tony in the film. [[spoiler: Sadly, his illness and her eventual suicide put an end to their short-lived happiness.]]]] In the book, she has to practically force him to marry her, and afterwards he only proves himself to be a careless, cheating horndog who lets his sister control Jennifer's life, and they eventually divorce.
* TheIngenue: Anne starts the story a sweet, polite virgin very naive to the ways of the world, especially show business. Neely is a subversion; she's a virgin, but is already cynical and rough around the edges.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Anne and Kevin Gillmore. Also, Jennifer and most of the men she's involved in and Neely and Mel, of sorts.
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* LoveWillLeadYouBack: The naive Anne holds out hope for Lyon for years, despite a lack of any communication from him, despite being urged by others to find new love. She does get involved with an older man, but doesn't truly love him and jumps at the chance at seeing Lyon again. [[spoiler:He does come back to her, but not in a way Anne wants at all.]]
* MamaBear: Neely puts up with Helen Lawson's barbs until she insults her sons, at which point she attacks and humiliates her.
* MayDecemberRomance: Anne and KevinGillmore. Also, Gillmore, and Jennifer and most of both Claude and Winston.
* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Neely cruelly ends things with Mel for little other reason than themen fact that she's involved bored with him being so devoted with her. (This bothers the observing Jennifer, who [[NotSoDifferent is in and the same place as Mel]], both being homemaking spouses at this point)
* MissingMom: Neely barely spends any time with her twin sons, andMel, of sorts.Ted eventually sues for custody on the basis that she's not raising them.
* MamaBear: Neely puts up with Helen Lawson's barbs until she insults her sons, at which point she attacks and humiliates her.
* MayDecemberRomance: Anne and Kevin
* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Neely cruelly ends things with Mel for little other reason than the
* MissingMom: Neely barely spends any time with her twin sons, and
* MyBiologicalClockIsTicking: Jennifer and Anne both fret about how they want children as the years start to creep on them.
* NiceGirl: Jennifer is genuinely sweet and kind to everyone.
* NiceGirl: Jennifer is genuinely sweet and kind to everyone.
* OldMaid: Tony's sister Miriam is a virgin in her forties, having dedicated her entire life to Tony.
* OperationJealousy: Fed up with Tony flaking out on marrying her, Jennifer makes him jealous by repeatedly turning him down and pretending to be interested in other men. Fed up, he agrees to get married.
* OperationJealousy: Fed up with Tony flaking out on marrying her, Jennifer makes him jealous by repeatedly turning him down and pretending to be interested in other men. Fed up, he agrees to get married.
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* PrettyInMink: A few mink coats are worn.
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* PrettyInMink: A few mink coats are worn. Jennifer can't get enough of buying them.
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* RealAwardFictionalCharacter: Neely wins a Grammy Award.
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* RealAwardFictionalCharacter: Neely wins an Oscar in the book, and a Grammy Award.in the film.
* SerialSpouse: Helen has been married many times, always ending in a bitter divorce.
* SerialSpouse: Helen has been married many times, always ending in a bitter divorce.
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* StepfordSmiler: Anne becomes this. The drugs help.
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* StepfordSmiler: Anne becomes this.this, [[spoiler:watching the love of her life cheat on her again and again, knowing she's wasted her life waiting for him]]. The drugs help.
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* VirginShaming: Allen is horrified at the idea that Anne is a 20-year-old virgin saving it for someone special, saying that only "frigid" girls in the city hang onto their virginity that late.
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Anne and Lyon. The latter doesn't want marriage so they part on amicable terms, but keep coming back to each other over the years. Anne always wants to make the relationship work, but Lyon makes things... difficult. [[spoiler:TheyDo get together in the end, only for Lyon to cheat on Anne repeatedly as she waits for her to just become numb to all the heartache. At that point, she wasted ''twenty years'' holding out a torch for him.]]
* YankTheDogsChain: After her unhappy time with Tony and a yearning to quit acting in Europe, Jennifer becomes romantically involved with a wealthy, well-liked senator who seems to truly love her and want a marriage and family with her. [[spoiler:Then she learns she has breast cancer and has to get one of her breasts removed, ruining her sex appeal, and she'll never be able to have kids. Realizing even her lover is obsessed with her body and not what she wants, she kills herself and sends said senator into a nervous breakdown.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: It would almost be quicker to name who ''hasn't'' cheated. Anne cheats on Allen with Lyon (though in fairness, she never really wanted to be involved with him anyway), and also cheats on Kevin with him; Neely cheats on Mel with Ted, who then cheats on her with women ''and'' men; Tony cheats on Jennifer with random singers he encounters; Helen Lawson is constantly cheated on, and cheated on the one husband she ever truly loved; [[spoiler:Lyon cheats on Anne with Neely, and then continues a long string of affairs when they're married.]]
* YankTheDogsChain: After her unhappy time with Tony and a yearning to quit acting in Europe, Jennifer becomes romantically involved with a wealthy, well-liked senator who seems to truly love her and want a marriage and family with her. [[spoiler:Then she learns she has breast cancer and has to get one of her breasts removed, ruining her sex appeal, and she'll never be able to have kids. Realizing even her lover is obsessed with her body and not what she wants, she kills herself and sends said senator into a nervous breakdown.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: It would almost be quicker to name who ''hasn't'' cheated. Anne cheats on Allen with Lyon (though in fairness, she never really wanted to be involved with him anyway), and also cheats on Kevin with him; Neely cheats on Mel with Ted, who then cheats on her with women ''and'' men; Tony cheats on Jennifer with random singers he encounters; Helen Lawson is constantly cheated on, and cheated on the one husband she ever truly loved; [[spoiler:Lyon cheats on Anne with Neely, and then continues a long string of affairs when they're married.]]
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* AllLoveIsUnrequitedAllLoveIsUnrequited: Anne and Lyon. The latter doesn't want marriage so they part on amicable terms, but keep coming back to each other over the years. Every time one of them is unwilling to make the relationship work.
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* ChristmasCake: In the film Neely is appalled that she's being replaced with a younger actress - saying she's only 26.
* CompressedAdaptation: The novel takes place over twenty years - beginning in 1945 and finishing in 1965. The film clearly unfolds in a much shorter time frame. It's already the 60s when it starts.
* CompressedAdaptation: The novel takes place over twenty years - beginning in 1945 and finishing in 1965. The film clearly unfolds in a much shorter time frame. It's already the 60s when it starts.
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* SoBeautifulItsACurse:
** Jennifer essentially is valued entirely for her looks. It comes to the point where [[spoiler: she opts to commit suicide when diagnosed with breast cancer]].
** Anne doesn't want to be in the entertainment business at first but she's chosen entirely for her beauty - which leads to her getting hooked on the titular 'dolls'.
** Jennifer essentially is valued entirely for her looks. It comes to the point where [[spoiler: she opts to commit suicide when diagnosed with breast cancer]].
** Anne doesn't want to be in the entertainment business at first but she's chosen entirely for her beauty - which leads to her getting hooked on the titular 'dolls'.
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* WakeUpMakeUp: Neely has rather good make-up for someone who's ferociously hung over in the scene where Lyon wakes her up.
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The novel was wildly popular upon publication (thanks largely to its juicy HorribleHollywood detailing), and had two film adaptations. The first adaptation in 1967 starred Barbara Parkins, Creator/PattyDuke, Sharon Tate, Paul Burke, Martin Milner, and Creator/SusanHayward, and -- just like its source material -- was [[CriticalDissonance hated by critics yet a huge box-office hit]]; today it's seen as a SoBadItsGood CultClassic. The second adaptation was a MadeForTVMovie in 1981. The first adaptation also had a parody pseudo-sequel, ''Film/BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls'', in 1970, helmed by '60s/'70s schlockmeister Russ Meyer.
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The novel was wildly popular upon publication (thanks largely to its juicy HorribleHollywood detailing), and had two film adaptations. The first adaptation in 1967 starred Barbara Parkins, Creator/PattyDuke, Sharon Tate, Creator/SharonTate, Paul Burke, Martin Milner, and Creator/SusanHayward, and -- just like its source material -- was [[CriticalDissonance hated by critics yet a huge box-office hit]]; today it's seen as a SoBadItsGood CultClassic. The second adaptation was a MadeForTVMovie in 1981. The first adaptation also had a parody pseudo-sequel, ''Film/BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls'', in 1970, helmed by '60s/'70s schlockmeister Russ Meyer.
