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2 unusual facts about Jacqueline Susann


Harvey Aronson

He was part of a group of Newsday reporters involved in writing the bestselling hoax novel Naked Came the Stranger, initially credited to fictional author Penelope Ashe, and published as a parody of commercialized book publishing in general and of novels in the genre of Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls in particular.

West Cornwall Covered Bridge

The bridge appeared in the opening scenes of the movie, Valley of the Dolls a 1967 American drama film based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Jacqueline Susann.


Barbara Seaman

During the 1980s, Seaman published Lovely Me, a biography of Jacqueline Susann, which was made into a television movie, Scandalous Me, starring Michele Lee.

Helen Lawson

Helen Lawson is a fictional character in the novel Valley of the Dolls written by Jacqueline Susann.

Michele Lee

She also starred in the reunion mini-series Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac in 1997, and portrayed Hollywood novelist Jacqueline Susann in the television biopic Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story in 1998.


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Just This Once

Scott French first scanned and analyzed portions of two books by Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls and Once Is Not Enough, to determine constituents of Susann's writing style, which French stated was the most difficult task.

Neely O'Hara

Season 4 of RuPaul's Drag Race featured a Chicago born drag contestant who uses a portmanteau of Jacqueline Susann's famous character named "Phi Phi O'Hara".