Question: Who played helen lawson in valley of the dolls?

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question: Who played Helen Lawson in Valley of the Dolls TV series?
short_answers: Sally Kirkland

context: For the 1967 film adaptation Judy Garland was originally cast as Helen, and replaced by Susan Hayward.
question: Who played Helen Lawson in the Valley of the Dolls film?
short_answers: Susan Hayward
wikipage: Helen Lawson

context: Judy Garland was originally cast as Helen Lawson, but was fired when she reportedly came to work drunk; Susan Hayward replaced her in the role after production had already begun. On July 20, 2009, Patty Duke told an audience at a screening of the film at the Castro Theater in San Francisco that director Mark Robson made Garland wait from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm before filming her scenes for the day, knowing that Garland would be upset and drunk by that time. Hayward reportedly had a difficult relationship with the cast and crew, and her clashes with Duke became part of the dramatic tension between their characters.
question: Who originally played Helen Lawson in the Valley of the Dolls film before being fired?
short_answers: Judy Garland
wikipage: Valley of the Dolls (film)

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question: Who played Helen Lawson in Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls miniseries?
short_answers: Jean Simmons

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knowledge: content: Valley of the Dolls is an American drama series that aired in Syndication that ran from June 13 until September 9, 1994 and ran for 65 episodes
wikipage: Valley of the Dolls (TV series)

content: Valley of the Dolls is a 1967 American drama film directed by Mark Robson, produced by Robson and David Weisbart, and starring Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Sharon Tate, Susan Hayward, Paul Burke, and Lee Grant. Based on Jacqueline Susann's 1966 novel of the same name,
wikipage: Valley of the Dolls (film)

content: A 1990s television adaption of the 1966 novel Valley of the Dolls about the lives of various glamorous women living in Southern California.
wikipage: Valley of the Dolls (TV series)book

content: Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls is an American television drama miniseries that aired on CBS in October 1981
wikipage: Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
long_answer: There have been several adaptations of Jacqueline Susann's 1966 novel Valley of the Dolls. Sally Kirkland played Helen Lawson in the 1994 American drama series Valley of the Dolls. This series was a 1990s television adaption of the 1966 novel about the lives of various glamorous women living in Southern California. Valley of the Dolls is also a 1967 American drama film based on Jacqueline Susann's novel. In this film adaptation, Judy Garland was originally cast as Helen; however, she was replaced by Susan Hayward. Garland was fired when she reportedly came to work drunk. Susan Hayward replaced her in the role after production had already started. On July 20, 2009, Patty Duke told an audience at a screening of the film at the Castro Theater in San Francisco that director Mark Robson made Garland wait from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm before filming her scenes for the day, knowing that Garland would be upset and drunk by that time. In Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, another adaptation, Jean Simmons played Helen Lawson. Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls was American television drama miniseries that aired on CBS in October 1981.