Jacqueline Susann

Jacqueline Susann ( born August 20, 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, † September 21, 1974 in New York City, New York, United States) was an American actress and author.

Life

Susann lived until graduating from West Philadelphia High School in Philadelphia. Against the wishes of her parents, she did not go to college then, but instead moved to New York with the intention of becoming an actress. She had held various small roles in films, plays and commercials. They met in New York press agent Irving Mansfield ( born Irving Mandelbaum ), the Susann further helped by having placed reviews and photos of her in New York newspapers. The two married in the synagogue Har Zion in Philadelphia on April 2, 1939. During the following years, Mansfield was able to support the progress of his wife, but repeatedly had affairs with other men from the show business. The couple separated, but reunited. In 1946 a son was born, but this was in 1950 given as autistic in a home.

In the years since their wedding over again rumors, Susann was bisexual. It was said to have their affairs with actresses and authors. In the early 1960s she published her first book, Every Night, Josephine! . In 1962, she underwent a full mastectomy for breast cancer; at the same time she started her first successful novel Valley of the Dolls ( German: Valley of the Dolls ), which was published in 1966 and was filmed a year later with the same title (see Valley of the Dolls ). It was followed by The Love Machine and 1973 Once is not Enough. The years 1973 and 1974 she spent for further cancer treatments in hospitals in New York, where she died in 1974.

Aftermath

Susann's 1979 novel Yargo was released, it had already been written in the 1950s. The novel Dolores was not completed by Susann and published by supplements by their friend Rex Reed.

In 1987, the biography of Barbara Seaman Lovely Me The Life of Jacqueline Susann, the 2000, entitled Is not She Great? was filmed with Bette Midler and Nathan Lane in the roles of Mr. and Mrs. Mansfield.

The Canadian director Kenneth Welsh turned over Susann and Mansfield 1998 planned for the TV movie Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story.

• German: Valley of the Dolls. Lingen Verlag, Cologne, 1966. ( Earthscan, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-426-00238-8 )

• German: The love machine. Heyne, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-453-19921-9.

• German: Once is not enough. Earthscan, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-426-01741-5.

• German: This one love. Earthscan, München ISBN 3-426-00575-1.

• German: Yargo. Joke, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-502-10725-4.

• Rae Lawrence: Jacqueline Susann, Shadow of the Dolls, Crown Publishers, New York City, USA 2001, ISBN 0-609-60585-2.