By the time Valley Girl was released in June 1982, the San Fernando Valley had transformed from the pastoral landscape captured in Crosby’s song. Between 1945 and 1980, the population more than ...

In the 1983 film, “Valley Girl," Nicolas Cage stars as a bad boy from the rough streets of Hollywood who falls in love with a San Fernando Valley princess, played by Deborah Foreman.

The poor taste. “Boogie Nights,” which hit theaters 20 years ago this month, looked back on the late 1970s and early ’80s San Fernando Valley from when it was shot in the mid-1990s.