Jacqueline Susann's Open Door 30, 1951, ""Jacqueline Susann's Open Door" (via WABD) is human-interest at its heart-tuggiest." No episodes are known to exist today. Jacqueline Susann's Open Door Jacqueline Susann's Open Door is an American discussion show hosted by Jacqueline Susann, later to become famous as the author of "Valley of the Dolls". It aired nationally on the DuMont Television Network between May 7 and June 18, 1951. Each week Susann would interview celebrities. Sam Chase's review of the program in the June 2, 1951, issue of "Billboard" illustrated the significance of the program's title: "Purpose of the show is to try to open
Jacqueline Susann made publishing history as the first writer to have three consecutive number one novels on the "Times" list. The book was filmed in 1975 by Guy Green as "Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough", with Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, Melina Mercouri, Brenda Vaccaro (in an Oscar-nominated performance), and Deborah Raffin as January. The film, executive-produced by Irving Mansfield, was not a critical favorite, but was a commercial success, grossing $15.7 million (the equivalent of $65.2 million in 2016).) Susann's final work was a novella, "Dolores" (Morrow), a "roman a clef" about Jacqueline Kennedy, originally written for the February 1974 issue