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"Western Union To Miss CHOAN Crawwwwww-fort, New York, NY Stop Saw this lit-tle item at Haaaaar-rod's Stop Knew you'd know just where to stick it Stop Love, Bette." |
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| "I'm the only one in the book who doesn't take pills!" -- Judy Garland on being cast as "Helen Lawson" in the film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls (1966) |
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| "I just read the most marvelous book. It's called Valley of the Moon." -- Bette Davis to Johnny Carson |
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| "Karla! At fourteen, he had masturbated with her picture propped up in front of him. His friends had their school lockers filled with pinups of Doris Day...But with him it had always been Karla." -- Jacqueline Susann, writing in Once is Not Enough (1974) |
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| "Ethel [Merman] and I have an old score to settle, but she might not realize it because she doesn't read books." -- Jacqueline Susann on modeling the "Helen Lawson" character in Valley of the Dolls on Merman |
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| "Ethel Merman is a lady and a philanthropist compared to Joan [Crawford]. If I had known Joan when I was writing Valley of the Dolls, Helen Lawson would have been a monster." -- Jacqueline Susann |
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| Lee Patrick in The Walls Came Tumbling Down (Columbia, 1946) |
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| Lee Patrick and Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon (Warner Bros., 1941) |
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| Lee Patrick and Bette Davis in Now, Voyager (Warner Bros., 1942) |
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| Lee Patrick, Ann Blyth and Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce (Warner Bros., 1945) |
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| Willard Waterman, Rosalind Russell and Lee Patrick in Auntie Mame (Warner Bros., 1958) |
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| Lee Patrick in Singin' Spurs (Columbia, 1948) The real Saint Patrick, darlings. |
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| Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland in In This Our Life (Warner Bros., 1942) |
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| Jo Ann Marlowe and Ann Blyth in Mildred Pierce (Warner Bros., 1945) |
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| Kim Hunter and Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire (Warner Bros., 1951) |
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| Faith Domergue and Linda Darnell in This Is My Love (RKO, 1954) |
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| Rhonda Fleming and Arlene Dahl in Slightly Scarlet (RKO, 1956) |
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| Mamie Van Doren and Elinor Donahue in Girls Town (MGM, 1959) |
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| Bette Davis as Mrs. Taggert in The Anniversary (Hammer, 1968) |
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| Bette Davis as Rosa Moline in Beyond the Forest (Warner Bros., 1949) |
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| Bette Davis as Mrs. Hayden in Where Love Has Gone (Paramount, 1964) ...of the one mean movie mother sweepstakes. |
