Sharon Tate in ‘Valley of the Dolls’

Actress Sharon Tate (front and center) lounges on a bed with Barbara Parkins (left) and Patty Duke (back right) in the campy 1967 film Valley of the Dolls. Mark Robson directed. The film, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Jacqueline Susann, was a Hollywood tale of love, pills, angst, beauty, and ambition gone wrong. Born in 1943, Sharon Tate turned 24 the year the film was released.