Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 American schlock melodrama film starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett and David Gurian. The cult classic was directed by Russ Meyer and co-written by Meyer and Roger Ebert.
Originally intended as a sequel to the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls"?"dolls" being a slang term for depressant pills or "downers""?Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was instead revised as a parody of the commercially successful but critically reviled original.