Why would the healthy Anne Welles need pills?
I was watching "Valley of the Dolls", there are three lead girls in the movie.
Neele O Hara - has mental problems, she definitely needs pills
Jennifer - breast problem, really needs pills.
Anne Welles - her health was perfectly fine. Why would she need pills?
Best Answer
They don't take the drugs because they have medical issues...they take them because they're abusing them.
Neely doesn't take drugs because she has mental issues..she has mental issues because she's addicted to the drugs.
Once she's a star, however, Neely not only duplicates the egotistical behavior of Lawson, she also falls victim to the eponymous "dolls" (prescription drugs, particularly the barbiturates Seconal and Nembutal and various stimulants). She betrays her husband, Mel Anderson (Martin Milner); her career is shattered by her erratic behavior triggered by her drug abuse, and she is committed to a sanitarium for rehabilitation.
Anne's natural beauty lands her a lucrative job promoting a line of cosmetics in TV commercials and print ads. She also falls under the allure of drugs to escape her doomed relationship with cad Lyon (Burke), who has an affair with her erstwhile friend, Neely.
This addiction/drug abuse is the basis for the whole movie.
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What were the green pills in Valley of the Dolls?
Based on Jacqueline Susann's 1966 novel Valley of the Dolls, it follows three women struggling to forge careers in the entertainment industry, each of them descending into barbiturate addiction\u2014"dolls" being a slang term for depressant pills or "downers".Why are pills called dolls?
Truman Capote called Susann \u201ca truck driver in drag.\u201d Susann's son Guy Mansfield had Autism and, sadly, had to be institutionalized. She started taking pills, or \u201cdolls\u201d as she called them (her favorite term of endearment), to deal with the emotional pain.\
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