Directed by Guy Green • 1975 • United States
Starring Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen
Based on the bestseller by “Valley of the Dolls” author Jacqueline Susann, this torrid big-screen soap opera centers on the fraught relationship between Mike Wayne (Kirk Douglas), a has-been Hollywood movie producer, and his pampered daughter January (Deborah Raffin). When the cash-strapped Mike marries a wealthy lesbian (Alexis Smith) for her money, the new relationship upends January’s life and leads her into an affair with an alcoholic novelist (David Janssen). Brenda Vaccaro received an Academy Award nomination for her scene-stealing supporting turn as a man-hungry fashion editor.
Directed by Arthur Hiller • 1976 • United States
Starring Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor
In this wild (and wildly popular) buddy-comedy adventure, rail passenger George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) finds that a romantic escapade with a sultry secretary (Jill Clayburgh) puts him in the midd...
Directed by Walter Bernstein • 1980 • United States
Starring Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis
Damon Runyon’s classic short story—originally filmed in 1934 as a Shirley Temple vehicle—gets a sparkling screen update courtesy of an all-star cast. Walter Matthau stars as Sorrowful Jones, t...
Directed by Blake Edwards • 1982 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston
Blake Edwards’s brilliant boudoir farce stars a never-better Julie Andrews as Victoria Grant, a struggling 1930s cabaret singer who cooks up a scheme that makes her the toast of ...
