娃娃谷 (1966)

《娃娃谷》（英语：Valley of the Dolls）为美国小说，美国作家贾桂琳·苏珊（Jacqueline Susann）于1966年出版。

标题中的“娃娃”是一个贾桂琳·苏珊使用的俚语，娃娃也代表了女性在重男轻女的世界中“扮演”的玩具。

销售

《娃娃谷》在美国大受欢迎，销售量达到三千万册。

改编

1967年电影

电影《风月泣残红》由麦克·洛逊（Mark Robson）执导，巴巴拉·柏坚丝、莎朗·蒂、派娣·杜克及苏珊·希活等主演。

1981 迷你影集

这部小说于1981年又被改编成电视剧，导演是沃尔特·格劳曼（Walter Grauman）。

1994 电视剧

1994年，《娃娃谷》改编为深夜电视肥皂剧。

2005 广播剧

BBC广播4台播出了15集《娃娃谷》广播剧。

电视剧

美国电视网NBC在2011年宣布将《娃娃谷》改编为电视剧。

Valley of the Dolls is the first novel by the American writer Jacqueline Susann. Published in 1966, the book was the best-selling novel of its year. By 2016, it had sold more than 31 million copies, making it one of the all-time best-selling fictional works in publishing history. It received largely negative reviews.

Plot

In 1945 beautiful ingénue Anne Welles moves to New York City to escape the ennui of her Massachusetts hometown. She finds work as a secretary to Henry Bellamy, an entertainment lawyer, and befriends Neely O'Hara, an ebullient vaudevillian and aspiring stage actress. Henry's former employee, Lyon Burke, returns to the agency after World War II, and Anne quickly falls in love with him despite Henry's warning. Meanwhile Anne goes on some dates with a small-time salesman named Allen Cooper, who suddenly reveals that he is a millionaire pretending to be an ordinary person in order to make sure Anne's feelings are genuine. He proposes to Anne and their love story becomes a media sensation.

Anne befriends Helen Lawson, a brilliant, ruthless, unhappy Broadway legend. Neely is hired for Helen's latest show, but Helen takes a dislike to her and minimizes her role. Anne uses her friendship with Lyon to secure Neely a bigger role, and Neely becomes a breakout star; Helen cruelly rejects Anne by revealing the she was only interested in Anne's friendship for the chance at a sexual relationship with Allen's father. Anne also befriends Jennifer North, a kindhearted young actress famous for her attractive figure.

On the night of the show's opening, Anne and Lyon consummate their feelings, and Anne and Allen break up. The production is a massive success. Neely enjoys a meteoric rise to fame and moves to California to begin a film career. Anne's mother dies and Anne returns to her hometown with Lyon, who wants to quit the agency, live in Anne's family home, and write novels. Though Anne loves Lyon deeply, she refuses to move back to Massachusetts. Lyon breaks up with Anne and moves to England to write, leaving Anne heartbroken. Though Anne takes years to move on, she eventually becomes a model for beauty products and starts dating the cosmetics company owner, the older, wealthy Kevin Gillmore.

Meanwhile Jennifer begins a relationship with childish, sex-obsessed singer Tony Polar, but their romance is frequently disrupted by Tony's domineering older sister, Miriam. Jennifer pressures Tony into marrying her and quickly gets pregnant. After reuniting with an increasingly unsympathetic Neely, who is in the midst of an affair, Jennifer becomes dependent on "dolls" (amphetamines and barbiturates) to calm her frayed nerves. Finally, Miriam reveals why she opposed Jennifer and Tony's relationship: Tony has developmental disabilities and the baby will likely inherit them. Devastated, Jennifer has an abortion and agrees to divorce Tony. Jennifer then moves to Europe and finds work in art house films, which, owing to her nudity, are considered soft-core pornography in the United States.

By 1950 Neely has become a celebrated actress, enjoying a lucrative film career and parenting twin sons with her second husband. However, long workdays and the stress over her husband's infidelity (with both men and women) keep her dependent on "dolls", and she is becoming increasingly unpopular with the studio because of her tantrums and walkouts. Neely accidentally overdoses, but makes a full recovery. Still, the studio fires her from the production and replaces her with the boss's young lover. Anne reconnects with Neely; Kevin suggests resurrecting Neely's career by having her sing on a televised spectacular for his brand. Neely at first refuses, but following a successful supper-club performance and a run-in with a belligerent Helen, she agrees. Unable to cope with the demands of the rehearsals, she overdoses to avoid performing. To Anne's distress, Neely disappears to Europe.