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Edy Williams in Russ Meyer’s Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, 1970.
In Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), Edy Williams played Ashley St. Ives, a porn star who seduces one of the main male characters, Harris Allsworth (played by David Gurian). The film itself was a cavalcade of beautiful women (two of the three female leads were Playboy Playmates), swinging sexual liberation, drug use (the “dolls” of the title was slang for depressant pills) and the vagaries of the music industry. It was directed by notorious sexploitation legend Russ Meyer (whom Williams would marry after the film’s release) and was more of a parody of its 1967 predecessor, The Valley of the Dolls, than a sequel.
In Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), Edy Williams played Ashley St. Ives, a porn star who seduces one of the main male characters, Harris Allsworth (played by David Gurian). The film itself was a cavalcade of beautiful women (two of the three female leads were Playboy Playmates), swinging sexual liberation, drug use (the “dolls” of the title was slang for depressant pills) and the vagaries of the music industry. It was directed by notorious sexploitation legend Russ Meyer (whom Williams would marry after the film’s release) and was more of a parody of its 1967 predecessor, The Valley of the Dolls, than a sequel.
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