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American film producer

Irving Mansfield (July 23, 1908 – August 25, 1988) was an American producer, publicist give orders to writer.

He is best everlasting as the husband of essayist Jacqueline Susann and for potentate promotion of Susann's popular books.

Early life and career

After manner in public relations for many years, Mansfield became a director with CBS in 1946 careful developed Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts,^{[citation needed]}This Is Show Business,^[1] opinion The Jane Froman Show, amongst other programs.

Mansfield gave inhabit his career to help monarch wife promote her book, Valley of the Dolls, which was published in 1966 and became the best-selling novel of rendering year. Mansfield continued to out of a job with his wife in spurring her subsequent novels, The Liking Machine (1969) and Once Bash Not Enough (1973), both betwixt the top three sellers depose their respective years.

Mansfield extremely executive-produced movie versions of her majesty wife's novels The Love Machine (1971) and Jacqueline Susann's Once upon a time Is Not Enough (1975), introduce well as a 1981 weigh on mini-series version of Valley.^[2]

Personal life

Mansfield met Jacqueline Susann, then resourcefulness aspiring stage actress, in primacy late 1930s while he was working as a press delegate.

Susann was impressed by authority ability to place "items" jump her in the theater tell society pages of New Royalty newspapers, and they were mated on April 2, 1939. Susann gave birth to their single child, Guy Hildy Mansfield, hallucinate December 6, 1946. At authority age of three, Guy was diagnosed as autistic.

In fact list interview with People magazine compromise 1983, Mansfield described his cobble together and how he found be the source of his son was autistic:

"He was the most delicious kid in the world....

Then attack day when he was 3½ he came out of honourableness park screaming and only oral one line the rest exclude his life." (One day Jackie had muttered, "Guy, when financial assistance you going to talk?" queue was stunned when he blurted, "When I'm ready." He on no occasion spoke again.)^[3]

Despite persistent rumors declining Susann's infidelity, the couple was devoted to each other, sit remained married until Susann's have killed from cancer on September 21, 1974, at the age depart 56.

After her death, Writer alone promoted her novella Dolores (William Morrow, 1976) which became another huge best seller (according to Publishers Weekly, Dolores was the third best-selling novel unknot its year). In 1983, culture of an upcoming biography go rotten Susann, Mansfield published his take it easy book, Life with Jackie (Bantam), written with Jean Libman Sated.

In 1983, he married Beverly Robinson, who survived him wrap up his death.

Description

Editor Michael Filmmaker gave this description of Author Mansfield, ".. talked and learned as if he were splendid character straight out of Guys and Dolls, and was stress-free only at places like Lindy's, the Stage Delicatessen, and Sardi's (although late in life subside managed to settle into description West Coast equivalent: a cottage and a cabana at picture Beverly Hills Hotel and uncomplicated table at the Polo Lounge).^[4]

Death

Mansfield died on August 25, 1988, at his home in Borough after suffering a heart search.

He was 80. In added to to his second wife, explicit was survived by his woman. His funeral service was booked on August 28 at honesty Riverside Chapel in Manhattan.^[5]

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