Jacqueline Susann - in Popular Culture

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The movie Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, written by Russ Meyer and Roger Ebert and directed by Meyer, was a parody of Valley of the Dolls.

Susann was referenced in the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home as one of "the giants" of 20th Century American literature, along with Harold Robbins.

In 2000, Universal Pictures released a biopic about Susann titled Isn't She Great, with Bette Midler as Susann and Nathan Lane as Mansfield.

The indie rock group Pernice Brothers released a song entitled Jacqueline Susann on their 2010 album Goodbye, Killer.

A somewhat fanciful version of Susann is a character in Tad Richards and Jonathan Richards 2012 satirical novel Nick & Jake. In this story, set in 1953, Susann is a much younger woman, living at the Martha Washington Hotel for Women and more like a character in her novel Valley of the Dolls than the historical Susann.

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