Since I featured a clip from Valley of the Dolls as one of the scenes that I love, I figured it was only appropriate that I also share a scene from that film’s unauthorized, Roger Ebert-penned sequel, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
So, here’s the Carrie Nations performing the song “Find It” at the high school prom. I think what makes this scene stand out is, not only the music, but the discovery that apparently, 30 year-olds still went to high school in the 1970s.
Through the Shattered Lens 
I think teenage high school girls looked more developed and mature during that era. 🙂
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I like that song. Those chicks rock.
What does Roger Ebert got to do with this??
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He was one of the screenwriters. I think this was his only screenplay ever.
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This was Roger’s only screenplay to actually be turned into a film though he wrote a few others with Beyond the Valley of the Dolls director Russ Meyer. For instance, Ebert was enlisted to write the first aborted Sex Pistols film, Who Killed Bambi? (which eventually became a terribly inaccurate and flawed film called The Great Rock and Roll Swindle.) By all accounts, Johnny Rotten hated Roger Ebert.
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This just gets more and more strange. Was this the Russ Meyer of “Super Vixens”, etc, fame?
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The same. He served as a mentor to Roger.
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