Valley of the Dolls

Anne Welles (Barbara Parkins) leaves her small town, family and sweetheart behind for the bright lights of New York City. She gets a job working as the secretary to a bigshot theatrical lawyer, and on her first day she is sent over to a theatre to deliver some contracts for musical star Helen Lawson (Susan Hayward) to sign, but after Anne witnesses the egomaniacal behaviour of Lawson, she is immediately disillusioned. It takes the kind words of Lyon Burke (Paul Burke) to convince her she is in the right job, and meanwhile, Neely O'Hara (Patty Duke), the singer Lawson had fired for being too good, is starting to make her way up the ladder of success...