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Released
1967 · FILM

Valley of the Dolls

In the Valley of the Dolls, it's instant turn-on… dolls to put you to sleep at night, kick you awake in the morning, make life seem great – instant love, instant excitement, ultimate hell!

Directed by
Runtime
123 min
DramaMusicRomance
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Three ambitious young women, drawn by the lure of fame and fortune, enter the world of show business and soon find themselves ensnared in a celebrity nightmare marked by ego, alcohol, and pills—elements that come to define their existence as the beloved "dolls."

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Dorothy SpencerShot by William H Daniels

Box Office

1967 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 10× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$50.0M

Budget$5.0M
Worldwide gross$50.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Das Tal der Puppende
  • El valle de las muñecases
  • La Vallée des poupéesfr
  • La valle delle bamboleit

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