Bette Midler
Jacqueline Susann
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Isn't She Great is a 2000 American biographical comedy-drama film that presents a fictionalized biography of author Jacqueline Susann, played by Bette Midler.An international co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan, the film was directed by Andrew Bergman from a screenplay by Paul Rudnick based on a 1995 New Yorker profile by Michael Korda.
Jan 28, 2000 · Isn't She Great: Directed by Andrew Bergman. With Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, Stockard Channing, David Hyde Pierce. Bette Midler and Nathan Lane star in this comedy about Jacqueline Susann, the ambitious woman of dubious talent who wrote Valley of the Dolls, a best-selling novel that became a sensation.
- (2.6K)
- Biography, Comedy, Drama
- Andrew Bergman
- 2000-01-28
Maybe the whole look, feel and sensibility of "Isn't She Great" is part of the joke. It's a movie that seems to possess the same color scheme and style sense as Valley of the Dolls, but, alas, without Jackie's dirty mind. So devout is this story that when Irving ( Nathan Lane) walks out on Jackie ( Bette Midler ), we don't even find out why he ...
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- 2 min
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Facing a failing career, Susann meets a successful promoter who becomes her husband. After several failures to place her in commercials and a TV quiz show, he hits upon the idea for her to become a writer. In the pre-1960s, her books were looked upon as trash and non-printable. But then the sexual revolution hit and an audience was born for her ...
- Andrew Bergman
- 95 min
- 16
Synopsis. Before Jacqueline Susann published her best-selling novel "Valley of the Dolls," she was deteremined to find her place in the spotlight. When a friend told her that "talent wasn't everything" she embarked on a quest to find someone to promote her. She found Irving Mansfield, a manager and publicist who fell in love with her and came ...
The hilarious Bette Midler stars in this outrageous comedy of the life of Jacqueline Susann, an ambitious woman of dubious talent who writes Valley of the Dolls, the sexy, best-selling novel that takes the world by storm. Jacqueline's irrepressible sense of humor, indomitable spirit and adoring husband Irving Mansfield (Nathan Lane) eventually rocket her from struggling starlet to ...
