Jacqueline Susann

About

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.

Before Fame

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.

Family Life

She had numerous affairs, but remained married to Irving Mansfield. She died of metastatic cancer at the age of fifty-six.

Associated With

She had an affair with Eddie Cantor.