She had arrived in New York from her native Philadelphia in 1936, at the age of eighteen, a beauty-contest winner with acting ambitions. Jackie was in many ways a much livelier creation than her novels. Jackie, then forty-seven, had spiky false eyelashes, a chain-smoker’s gravelly voice, and glittery dresses her feisty, tough-broad image seemed to many like the beginning of the end-show-business vulgarity at the door of the temple of culture. Then, in 1966, came Jacqueline Susann’s “Valley of the Dolls,” a huge bestseller: it brought together for the first time the worlds of Hollywood, gossip, and Broadway press-agentry, to sell a novel whose subjects included all those things. list with works of philosophy, history, and literature he, too, turned down the opportunity to publish “Lolita.” Alfred and Blanche Knopf were so notorious for good taste that I doubt whether they were even offered “Lolita.” My boss, Max Schuster, had launched Simon & Schuster with the first book of crossword puzzles, back in 1924-he had attached a pencil to each copy-but as a publisher he sought to load the S. & S. Bennett Cerf: the co-owner of Random House, might flutter around the edges of show business as a Broadway groupie, a joke anthologist, and a panel member on the TV quiz show “What’s My Line?,” but when it came to his publishing persona he expected to be taken seriously: he worried about books “in bad taste,” with the result that he failed to buy “Lolita” when it was offered to him. Of course, it was a façade, paper-thin and getting thinner, but it was how book publishers wanted to be perceived, and mostly were. The business was being run, for the most part, by men in suits or in donnish tweeds, with pipes, who were either Ivy League Wasps or Jews whose highest ambition was to be mistaken for Wasps. When I joined Simon & Schuster, in the late summer of 1958, book publishing still thought of itself as a respectable profession. The miniseries was directed by Walter Grauman, with Susann's husband Irving Mansfield as executive producer.Photograph by Tom Caffery / Globe Photos / ZUMAPRESS

The teleplay is adapted from the 1966 novel Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann. The first two hours were broadcast on October 19, followed by three hours on October 20 during prime time CBS originally intended it to last a total of four hours, but requests by the filmmakers for an further hour were granted in September.

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls is an American television drama miniseries that aired on CBS in October 1981. American TV series or program Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls

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