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Jacqueline Susann Biography
Jacqueline Susann is one of the famous Novelist, who was born on the memorable day of August 20 in the year 1918. Hailing from the vibrant city of Pennsylvania, Jacqueline Susann is a proud citizen of United States.
Bestselling novelist of Valley of the Dolls and The Love Machine. She also hosted a short-lived television program called Jacqueline Susann’s Open Door.
Over the years, not only have skills been honed, but a significant impact has also been made in the professional field. Whether it's through work, public appearances, or contributions to the community, Jacqueline Susann continues to be an inspiration for many.
Jacqueline Susann Wiki
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Jacqueline Susann
First Name
Jacqueline
Last Name
Susann
Death Date
1974-09-21
Death Day
September 21
Death Year
1974
Cause of Death
Natural Causes
Manner of Death
Breast Cancer
Place of Death
New York, NY
Family
She had numerous affairs, but remained married to Irving Mansfield. She died of metastatic cancer at the age of fifty-six.
Height & Weight
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She pursued an acting and modeling career in New York before beginning her writing career. She published her first novel, Every Night, Josephine!, in 1963.
Trivia
Her novel, Valley of the Dolls, spawned both a hugely popular movie and a TV series.
Net Worth & Salary
Jacqueline Susann net worth is $5 Million (2022).
Jacqueline Susann Timeline
1920
Jacqueline's father’s surname was never legally changed, so she was born Jacqueline Susan, as confirmed in the 1920 US census, 1930 US census, and her father's record in the U.
1936
Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007.
1937
In New York, on June 2, 1937, aged 18, Susann landed a small role in the Broadway company of The Women, the caustic comedy by Clare Boothe which had opened on December 26, 1936, and would run for 657 performances.
1938
She subsequently appeared in such Broadway shows as The Girl from Wyoming (1938), My Fair Ladies (1941), Blossom Time (revival, 1943), Jackpot (1944), and A Lady Says Yes (1945), which starred Hollywood siren Carole Landis.
1939
On April 2, 1939, Susann married press agent Irving Mansfield, who had impressed her by successfully placing "items" about her in the theater and society pages of New York newspapers.
1941
Only one of her shows following The Women was a hit: Banjo Eyes (1941), starring Eddie Cantor, ran for 126 performances.
1945
Valley of the Dolls spans twenty years (1945–1965) in the lives of three young women: Anne Welles, the New England beauty who liberates herself from her staid small town by coming to New York, where she falls in love with the dashing Lyon Burke; Neely O'Hara, an ebullient vaudevillian who becomes a Hollywood star and self-destructs; and Jennifer North, a showgirl with little talent but a gorgeous face and figure, who becomes a friend to both.
1946
Smith, a comedy about a one-time movie actress whose former husbands interfere with her scheme to marry a man of wealth. Retitled Lovely Me, the play, directed by actress Jessie Royce Landis, and starring Luba Malina and Mischa Auer, opened on Broadway at the Adelphi Theatre on December 25, 1946.
1948
From 1948 to 1950, Susann appeared on The Morey Amsterdam Show, a comedy series (telecast first on CBS, then on DuMont), in which she played Lola (later Jackie) the Cigarette Girl to Amsterdam's nightclub emcee.
1950
During the mid-1950s, Susann wrote a science-fiction novel called The Stars Scream (published posthumously as Yargo).
1951
In 1951, she hosted Jacqueline Susann's Open Door (DuMont), the premise of which was to help people—most of whom had experienced hardships—find jobs.
1954
In 1954, the Mansfields adopted a black, half-toy half-miniature poodle, whom they named Josephine, in honor of comedian Joe E.
1955
In 1955, she became spokesperson for the Schiffli Lace and Embroidery Institute.
1956
She appeared in such series as Danger (CBS), Studio One (CBS), and Suspense (CBS), but found herself typecast: "I got cast as what I looked like—a glamorous divorcée who gets stabbed or strangled." In the summer of 1956, she appeared in NBC's revival of the panel show This Is Show Business, which was produced by her husband.
1960
One night in the early 1960s, as she was leaving a New York restaurant, Susann heard someone shout, "There's the Schiffli girl!" Susann, realizing that 25 years of hard work had culminated only in recognition as the "Schiffli girl," was discouraged.
1962
In 1962, after encouragement from showman Billy Rose, husband of Susann's friend, Joyce Mathews (1919–1999; twice married to Milton Berle), she began to adapt into book form letters she had written about her beloved poodle, Josephine.
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1963
Published by Bernard Geis Associates on November 16, 1963, Every Night, Josephine! sold 35,000 copies in hardcover, and by 1973 sold 1.7 million paperbacks.
1966
Her iconic novel, Valley of the Dolls (1966), is one of the best-selling books in publishing history.
1967
In 1967, the book was adapted into the film of the same name, starring Barbara Parkins as Anne, Patty Duke as Neely, Sharon Tate as Jennifer, and Susan Hayward as Helen Lawson, the aging Broadway legend.
1969
With her two subsequent works, The Love Machine (1969) and Once Is Not Enough (1973), Susann became the first author to have three novels top The New York Times Best Seller list consecutively.
1970
In 1970, Susann made a brief return to the stage when she appeared in Blanche Yurka's off-Broadway revival of Jean Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot.
1971
She later appeared in a 1971 episode of the crime drama Mannix ("The Crime That Wasn't", airdate January 29, 1971).
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1973
Susann's third novel, Once Is Not Enough, was published by Morrow on March 20, 1973.
1974
By the time of Susann's death in 1974, it had entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the best selling novel in publishing history, with more than 17 million copies sold.
1975
The book was filmed in 1975 by Guy Green as Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough, with Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, Melina Mercouri, Brenda Vaccaro (in an Oscar-nominated performance), and Deborah Raffin.
1976
Susann's manuscript, too long for the Journal, was cut, but the excised material was restored for the book publication on July 8, 1976.
1995
Michael Korda, editor of Susann's Love Machine said in 1995 that, prior to Susann, "people weren't so much interested in selling books as they were in publishing them." To what had once been considered a "gentleman's profession," she brought a show business sensibility.
1998
In 1998, Susann was played by actress Michele Lee in the television film Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story (USA), based on Barbara Seaman's biography Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann.
2000
Scandalous Me was followed in 2000 by the theatrical film Isn't She Great, based on a New Yorker profile by Michael Korda, with Bette Midler and Nathan Lane.
2001
In 2001, author Rae Lawrence published a continuation of Valley of the Dolls, titled Jacqueline Susann's Shadow of the Dolls (Crown), which was reputedly based on notes left by Susann for an intended sequel.
2016
By 2016, the book had sold more than 31 million copies.
