โ๐โ๐ ๐๐๐๐ง ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ซ (๐จ๐ง ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ค๐ ๐๐ก๐จ๐ฐ), ๐๐ง๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฏ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง-๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ. ๐๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ ๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐, ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฏ๐๐ก๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ค๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐. ๐๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐๐จ๐ซ!โ
Patty Duke as pill-popping Hollywood star Neely O'Hara and Susan Hayward as "Broadway barracuda" Helen Lawson in the 20th Century Fox/Mark Robson camp classic Valley of The Dolls, 1967. Adapted from the Jacqueline Susann mega-bestselling novel of the same name, the movie was a box office hit despite being savaged by film critics. Only 21 years old at the time, struggling with her own yet to be diagnosed bipolar disorder, and playing her first adult role after years as a child star (she won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award at the age of sixteen for her role as Helen Keller in 1962's The Miracle Worker), Duke gave it her all and chewed the scenery as the troubled, temperamental Neely. Following the film's premiere, critics unfairly aimed a number of poison-penned barbs her way, singling out her performance as "over-the-top" and "truly awful". Embarrassed by the reviews and ashamed of herself, Duke distanced herself from Valley of the Dolls for decades, cringing whenever the movie was mentioned. Later in life when gay friends and fans clued her in about how beloved the movie was in the lgbtq+ community and that it was considered a "camp classic", Patty re-evaluated her feelings toward the movie and ultimately embraced the film and attended special screenings of Valley of the Dolls in Chicago and at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, basking in the love her gay fans showered her with. She later recalled her experience at the Castro Theatre screening in her 2018 book In the Presence of Greatness: My Sixty-Year Journey as an Actress (co-written by William J. Jankowski and published two years after Duke's passing at the age of 69): "I was visibly moved by the thunderous applause and standing ovation I received. That evening, people who have suffered the pain of being judged unfairly were honoring me, and I find that love that they have for me wonderfully moving. Needless to say, I had the time of my life. What do I really think of the screen version of Valley of the Dolls as a film itself? I think it was unfortunate that the realities of the circumstances that the characters were experiencing were not explored in the script, instead of the film going for the quick buck. Although at first I thought I was being really good and serious in the role, I wasn't. I gave up early on. I gave up on the character and on participating once I saw the way they were headed with handling the production. Still, I think my performance shows a certain vulnerability in the character of Neely, where even when she is doing bad things, you are still rooting for her. That's what the gay community has given back to me; the respect that, whatever the hell we did, I did the best I could under the circumstances."
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