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	Jacqueline Susann: Profile: Virago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jacqueline Susann was born in 1918, the daughter of a
		Jacqueline Susann was married to producer Irving Mansfield, had one son, and died in 1974.
		Jacqueline Susann's sensational novel staked her claim as a pop pioneer, perfectly crystallized the decadence of the 1960s - and ushered in a whole new genre of mass-market fiction.
	www.virago.co.uk /virago/meet/susann_profile.asp (236 words)

	Jacqueline Susann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918 – September 21, 1974 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a Jewish-American author; her works include Valley of the Dolls.
		Susann typed her manuscripts on a hot-pink IBM Selectric typewriter.
		After her death, Susann was cremated and her ashes placed in a special container styled like a hardcover book, with "Jacqueline Susann 1918-1974" stamped on the front-cover side.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacqueline_Susann (753 words)

	Jacqueline Susann
		Born in Philadelphia on August 20, 1921, Jacqueline Susann was forty-four years old and a failed Broadway actress when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
		Almost overnight, Jacqueline Susann had become the most popular writer of her generation, the undisputed Queen of Pulp Fiction, whose own life was as exciting and glamorous as anything she wrote about in her best-selling novels.
		Susann believed that the wild and free-wheeling generation known as the Sixties would go down in history for three things--Andy Warhol, the Beatles, and Jacqueline Susann, and she may have been right.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-082004-susann.html (957 words)

	Jacqueline on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The daughter and heiress of William IV, duke of Bavaria and count of Hainaut, Holland, and Zeeland, and of Margaret of Burgundy, Jacqueline was passed over for the succession to the counties on her father's death in 1417 in favor of her uncle, John of Bavaria.
		Jacqueline married a cousin, John IV, duke of Brabant, nephew of Philip the Good of Burgundy, but found him useless in helping her recover her inheritance and soon left him.
		Jacqueline et Jean Dils, les parents de Patrick Dils arrivent au palais de justice La mère de Patrick Dils, Jacqueline, co..
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/J/Jacqueli.asp (655 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Jacqueline Susann
		Jacqueline Susann, sometimes called the Joan Crawford of novelists, wrote only three works of fiction between 1966 and 1973,; but her first novel, Valley of the Dolls,; was one of the 10 most widely distributed books of all time.
		Susann and her press agent husband also launched the kind of hard-sell promotional campaign that had previously been exploited only by Hollywood.
		Thus while Susann pushed the envelopes of content in her fiction, in real life she adhered to what she perceived as the expectations of her era, believing the public demanded celebrities who conformed to a positive, if manufactured image, no matter what the actuality of their private lives.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419201184/print (995 words)

	BootLeg Betty Movie Reviews
		The milestones are there: Susann's career as a second-string actress; her marriage to Irving Mansfield (Nathan Lane), her manager and tireless booster; the writing of Valley of the Dolls, the much-rejected novel that went on to become a spectacular bestseller; the birth of Susann's autistic son; the battle with breast cancer, which eventually killed her.
		Susann began her career as an actress, but with no agent and not much talent she scraped by with residuals from occasional radio jingles, TV commercials and gameshow appearances.
		That Susann had never before written a word is perceived as a minor obstacle, and she and Mansfield convince themselves that the public is thirsty for lurid stories about aging stars, hopeful hookers and pill-popping women who wind up in the gutter.
	www.bootlegbetty.com /reviews/fr_great.htm (3711 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional Theatre News & Reviews - Paper Doll - 11/18/2001
		Jacqueline Susann, with her trio of #1 best-selling trash novels ("Valley of the Dolls," "Love Machine," and "Once Is Not Enough"), was a cultural icon of the 1960s.
		Jacqueline Susann, from an early age, wanted to be a "somebody." Raised in affluence, she was a bright underachiever in school, a girl who failed to win the affection of her father, a portrait painter who enlisted his daughter's help in covering his sexual liaisons.
		Susann tried acting and modeling, looking for the niche to provide her entry into celebrity, but the path that proved successful was novel writing, beginning with "Every Night, Josephine," a book about her life with her beloved poodle.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/pitt/p20.html (905 words)

	James Sanford reviews Isn't She Great
		For instance, in 1963 Susann published "Every Night, Josephine," a book about the adventures of her poodle in Manhattan (both owner and pet frequently went out on the town in matching outfits, to give you some idea of where Jackie's head was at).
		Although Susann's prose could best be described as overripe ("Come here, you beautiful golden wench!" her hero Lyon Burke cries just before bedding the virginal Anne in the book), "Dolls" was a mind-bogglingly huge success upon its publication in 1966 because of Susann's skills as both a storyteller and a provocateur.
		From the mid-1960s until her death in 1974, Susann was a staple on TV talk shows, always bedecked in a flashy frock and equipped with a few choice wisecracks.
	www.interbridge.com /jamessanford/isntshegreat.html (540 words)

	Intelliflix: Rent Isn't She Great on DVD
		Jacqueline's irrepressible sense of humor, indomitable spirit and adoring husband Irving Mansfield (Nathan Lane) eventually rocket her from struggling starlet to international celebrity.
		Jacqueline Susann was fastidious about her fashion appearance, such as it was, and many of the clothes seemed to be exact replicas of the originals.
		Allegedly a bio of trash novelist Jacqueline Susann of "Valley of the Dolls" infamy, "Isn't She Great" plods along from Susann's (Midler) first meeting with the man she eventually married, Irving Mansfield, (Lane, miscast as anyone's husband) until her death from cancer in 1974.
	www.intelliflix.com /movie_view.dvd?id=956 (890 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| "Isn't She Great" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Andrew Bergman's casual but heartfelt biopic about Jacqueline Susann is a cupcake of a movie, a sweet and lightweight little thing that's all but served up in a ruffled paper cup.
		To the movie's credit, it doesn't shrink away from the difficulties Susann faced in real life: She gave birth to a severely autistic child, and her devotion to him, as Midler portrays it, is touching.
		Henry Marcus is a stand-in for Susann's real-life publisher, Berney Geis, and the Michael Hastings character is a composite of two editors: Don Preston, who edited "Valley of the Dolls," and Michael Korda, who edited "The Love Machine" and whose article in the New Yorker was the basis for Rudnick's script.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2000/01/28/isntshegreat/index.html (1294 words)

	Woman Behaving Badly
		Susann's editor, played by David Hyde Pierce doing his snippy Wasp thing, chafes at that prose until the numbers start racking up; he does a victory jig, which we're supposed to join in on, when Susann's sales reach the top of the best-seller list.
		Playing Jacqueline Susann should have recharged her batteries by indulging her gift for knockabout tragedy, except that the role, as written, is pure piffle.
		The current resurgence in interest in Susann -- the magazine and newspaper articles, the reissues of her best-sellers, and all the surrounding hype -- is supposed to be her last laugh on all the denigrators who said she'd be forgotten.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/movies/reviews/1883 (932 words)

	Jacqueline Susann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jacqueline Susann stands alone as the most popular writer of her generation, the undisputed Queen of Pulp Fiction who's own life was as exciting and fascinating as anything she wrote about in her best-selling novels.
		Jacqueline was born on August 20, 1918, which made her 42 at the start of the '60s and about four years older than her friend Helen Gurley Brown.
		Jacqueline fell so hard for Joe E. that she sent a Dear John letter to Irving (who was in the service at the time) asking for a divorce.
	home.earthlink.net /~nuttbait/jacqueline_susann.htm (2778 words)

	Powell's Books - Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
		Jacqueline Susann's sensational story of three pill-popping show-biz women (whom she modeled, rumor has it, after Judy Garland, Grace Kelly, and Marilyn Monroe) perfectly crystallized the decadence of the 1960s.
		Jacqueline Susann left her hometown of Philadelphia at eighteen and moved to New York where she acted extensively and won the Best Dressed Woman in Television award four times.
		Jacqueline Susann was married to producer Irving Mansfield.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0802135196-7 (281 words)

	DVD Review - Isn’t She Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jacqueline Susann (Bette Midler) is an ambitious woman, but sadly her talent does not really keep up with those ambitions.
		Adoring Jacqueline every second of the day, selflessly enjoying her success and supporting her to the point of self-sacrifice, Lane’s character is always believable and every bit as important in carrying this film as Bette Midler’s great performance as Jacqueline Susann.
		Bette, of course, is perfect for the part to bring the escapades and eccentric antics of Jacqueline Susann to colorful life and I couldn’t even think of another actress that could have captured this character as well as she does in this movie.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/isn_t_she_great.shtml (993 words)

	Jacqueline Susann's Shadow of the Dolls: A Novel
		Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls was one of the sexiest, most shocking, and most sensational novels ever to fly off the shelves.
		Sure, Lawrence is no Susann (but has she ever prentended to be?), and her characters could have been a tad meatier (come to think of it, Susann's as well), but, hey, this isn't the work of Proust we're talking here, but a fun and diversionary follow-up to the pop lit classic of all time.
		Jacqueline Susann wasn't Milton, but she told a good story.
	www.literacyconnections.com /0_0758202725.html (901 words)

	Paul Rudnick's "Great" Take on Jacqueline Susann
		Susann, however, did write books about that; gritty tomes peopled by drugged-out, back-stabbing starlets determined to claw their way to the top.
		Susann, with her spiky false eyelashes, garish, glittering Pucci outfits and gravelly voice, also clawed her way to the top: The woman who believed "Talent isn't everything" hit the road to promote herself with booksellers and on TV talk shows.
		Not unlike Susann, he gleefully pushed the limits of good taste, in his case with an impudent, subversive wit, turning out irreverent romps on his IBM Selectric typewriter (gray, not pink).
	www.jewishjournal.com /old/jacquelinesusann.1.21.0.htm (751 words)

	Books: The Jacqueline Susann Story (Austin Chronicle . 02-16-98)
		In this case, we get to remember potboiler author Jacqueline (pronounced Jack-wah-leen by her mother) Susann as the tough-as-nails, foul-mouthed, garishly painted typist that she was in the late Sixties and early Seventies.
		In Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann by Barbara Seaman (Seven Stories, $14.99 paper) we are treated to an all-out, full-frontal, no-pill-left-unturned attack on a woman previously thought to be only superficial and tacky.
		Jacqueline Susann once said she'd be remembered as the Voice of the Sixties - "Yeah, me, the Beatles, and Andy Warhol." Yeah, right, Jackie, but among so many voices....
	weeklywire.com /ww/02-16-98/austin_books_feature1.html (1900 words)

	Isn't She Great Movie Review by Anthony Leong
		All Jacqueline knew about were 'aging stars, hopeful hookers, and people popping pills and winding up in the gutter', and 'nobody writes books about that' she argued.
		Though Jacqueline was anything but a good writer and her voyeuristic peek into the sex and sin of Hollywood was rejected by a number of respectable publishing houses, this 'salacious, perverted, soft-core porn' novel quickly made it onto the bestseller list and eventually became the best-selling novel of the time.
		Jacqueline Susann was no Shakespeare, but she did leave an indelible mark (or blemish, depending on how you see it) on popular culture, particularly for those of the Baby Boom generation.
	www.geocities.com /aleong1631/isntshegreat.html (603 words)

	`Isn't She Great': Camping Trip to Susann's Valley
		But never in the way that Susann did, with the contradictory elements of pleasure in mining that mother lode of cubic zirconium and an undercurrent of sheer rage.
		The new interest in Susann must be one of the things that drove the producers of "Isn't She Great" to turn Michael Korda's encounter with her, which he recounted in a New Yorker article, into a bio-pic.
		In his memoir, "Another Life," Korda, an anthropologist in Susann's Land of the Drama Queen, was a smoothie from a show business family and smart enough, as her editor, to keep his hand out of her cage, or habitat, or wherever it is that such creatures dwell.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/012800great-film-review.html (1001 words)

	Jacqueline Susann's Dolores
		Movies have been made of some of Jacqueline Susann's books, most notably VALLEY OF THE DOLLS in which one of the female drug addicts was named Neely.
		Dolores was used to a certain lifestyle, and after Jimmy's death, she did everything she could to maintain the lifestyle and image of elegance and grace that she had worked so hard to achieve.
		A thinly-veiled retelling of the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the novella is hardly the equal of Susann's earlier works, but Susann's evident identification with her subject makes for a fast and gripping read.
	www.literacyconnections.com /0_0688030572.html (271 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story
		Adapted from the Barbara Seaman biography "Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann," film proves wildly bodacious from the get-go, opening (to the strains of Tom Jones' "She's a Lady") with Susann strutting poolside with her beloved pooch Josephine and bedecked in red short-shorts and do-me pumps.
		Susann was essentially about keeping up appearances that would allow her to indulge her growing taste for New York high society and, later, for pharmaceutical narcotics.
		Susann died of breast cancer in 1974 at age 56.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117487952?categoryid=32&cs=1 (729 words)

	Bookreporter.com - JACQUELINE SUSANN'S SHADOW OF THE DOLLS by Rae Lawrence
		In her divine, scandalous, multi best-selling VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, Jacqueline Susann introduced the world to the dolls and the women who took them --- actresses, models, ambitious young single girls who were out to make a name for themselves in New York City.
		JACQUELINE SUSANN'S SHADOW OF THE DOLLS twists and turns, following the lives of Neely and Anne as they cope with divorce and single-motherhood, addiction, affairs, and last-chances at stardom.
		Lawrence can be hilarious, her dialogue is over-the-top in a terribly Susann way, and her acid observations about tricoastal (Manhattan, Los Angeles, the Hamptons) life are right on target.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0609605852.asp (573 words)

	SCREEN IT! ARTISTIC REVIEW: ISN'T SHE GREAT
		Although she's initially reluctant since she claims she knows nothing except for the sex and drug related activities of the entertainment world, she and Irving realize that would be the perfect fodder for a trashy novel.
		As Jacqueline progressively gets closer to attaining her dreams of global fame, she must contend with criticism of her work, a secret battle with breast cancer, and her own self-doubts.
		The fact that his character immediately approaches Jacqueline at the film's onset with his business and romantic propositions may get things off to a quick start, but we never understand nor know why he does so or what he initially or ultimately sees in her.
	www.screenit.com /ourtake/2000/isnt_she_great.html (1261 words)

	Valley of the Dolls: A Novel: Jacqueline Susann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Susann begins with Anne arriving in NYC in 1945.
		Susann describes the characters and situations they're placed in so vividly you think you're looking in on them, not reading about them.
		Anne is the blonde New England beauty who begins as a secretary for an entertainment firm (against the advice of people who tell her to go to modelling agencies.) Neely starts as an enthusiastic, bubbly teenager.
	www.bookreviewsandsummaries.com /books/0802135196.htm (498 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Valley of the Dolls
		The path of Neely's disintegration wasn't a new story even in 1966, but it was only much later that the trap of prescription drug addiction was recognized as a silent epidemic among middle-class American housewives.
		"Valley of the Dolls" was a publishing phenomenon, and its success rests on Susann's understanding of women and their dreams, and her practical experience as an actress.
		The 1997 edition of "Valley of the Dolls" is both a period piece and a cause for reflection on just how much growing room women have claimed -- as well as a reminder that the reason some themes recur throughout literature and the popular press is that a good story is always a good story.
	www.bookpage.com /9710bp/fiction/valleyofdolls.html (296 words)

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