Isn't She Great

Isn't She Great is a 2000 American biographical film. A highly fictionalized account of the life and career of best-selling author Jacqueline Susann, the Universal Pictures release focuses on her early struggles as an aspiring actress relentlessly hungry for fame, her relationship with Svengali-like press agent husband Irving Mansfield, with whom she had an institutionalized autistic son, her success as the author of Valley of the Dolls, and her ... more

Isn't She Great is a 2000 American biographical film. A highly fictionalized account of the life and career of best-selling author Jacqueline Susann, the Universal Pictures release focuses on her early struggles as an aspiring actress relentlessly hungry for fame, her relationship with Svengali-like press agent husband Irving Mansfield, with whom she had an institutionalized autistic son, her success as the author of Valley of the Dolls, and her battle with and subsequent death from breast cancer. Paul Rudnick's screenplay, based on a 1995 New Yorker profile by Michael Korda, was directed by Andrew Bergman. The cast includes Bette Midler as Susann, Nathan Lane as Mansfield, Stockard Channing as Susann's gal pal Florence Maybelle, David Hyde Pierce as book editor Michael Hastings, and John Cleese as publisher Henry Marcus, with John Larroquette, Amanda Peet, Christopher McDonald, Debbie Shapiro, and Paul Benedict in supporting roles. Midler was nominated for a Worst Actress Golden... less