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.
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
Jan 9, 2012 · 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-60's, her books were looked upon as trash and non-printable. But...
- 2 min
- 12.7K
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Jackie Susann deserved better than "Isn't She Great." A woman who writes Valley of the Dolls shouldn't be punished with a biopic that makes her look only a little naughtier than Catherine Cookson. There's a scene here where Jackie and Irving visit with Jackie and Aristotle on the Onassis yacht.
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- Andrew Bergman
- 95 min
- 16
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 up with a crazy idea: write a book.
Jan 28, 2000 · Andrew Bergman's campy biopic about Jacqueline Susann (Midler), the struggling acress of stage and screen who quit acting to write her first novel, the enormously successful and salacious "Valley of the Dolls."
