'Valley of the Dolls' took the world by storm when it was first published over 50 years ago. Before Jackie Collins, Candace Bushnell and Lena Dunham, Jacqueline Susann (1918-74), held the world rapt with her tales of the private passions of Hollywood starlets, high powered industrialists and the jet set. Some spotting and time staining to endpapers and page fore edges, otherwise internally clean and tight, not price clipped (30/-), small previous owner's inscription to front pastedown, overall a reading copy only. Edge wear, chipping, creasing and loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top quarter of back jacket torn away, corners rubbed with loss, some overall yellowing and time staining. First edition, second impression, published later the same month. In 2000, Bette Midler starred as Susann in a big-screen biopic, Isn’t She Great, co-starring Nathan Lane as Irving Mansfield.Hardcover. Susann died of cancer on September 21, 1974, at the age of either 56 or 53 (her lifelong elusiveness about her real age led her to claim a birth year of 1921). Like Valley of the Dolls, both novels were adapted for the big screen, in 19, respectively. Two of Susann’s other books, The Love Machine and Once Is Not Enough, were also gobbled up by her many fans, making Susann the first novelist with three consecutive books to reach the top spot on The New York Times bestseller list. Valley of the Dolls has twice been adapted for television, in 19. (The wife of movie director Roman Polanski, Tate was murdered at her Los Angeles home in 1969 by members of the Charles Manson cult.) The film was nominated for an Academy Award for its score, composed by John Williams, and Tate received a Golden Globe nomination for Most Promising Newcomer.
In 1967, Valley of the Dolls was released as a movie starring Patty Duke, Sharon Tate and Barbara Parkins. Susann traveled extensively to promote Valley of the Dolls and became a frequent guest on TV talk shows.
It went into The Guinness Book of World Records as the planet’s then-most popular novel.The “dolls” in the book’s title referred to the uppers and downers the characters ingested to cope with their soap opera-like lives. Some 26 million readers snapped up Valley of the Dolls, her second work, despite less-than-favorable reviews by critics who labeled it trashy. Susann’s first book, published in 1962 and titled Every Night, Josephine!, was about her poodle. She landed small roles in theater and television, married press agent Irving Mansfield and wrote a play, Lovely Me, which had a brief run on Broadway. Like her characters in Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann moved to New York City as a young woman to pursue acting. On August 20, 1918, Jacqueline Susann, the author of Valley of the Dolls, the 1966 mega-hit novel about the showbiz lives of three women (reportedly modeled in part after Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly), is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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