The Love Machine (novel) two songs written for the film, "He's Moving On (Theme from The Love Machine)" and "Amanda's Theme"; the film soundtrack was released on Scepter Records. Susann herself had a cameo as a television newscaster. Like the film adaptation of "Valley of the Dolls" before it, "The Love Machine" received negative reviews. Unlike "Valley", however, the film version of "The Love Machine" was a box-office flop. The Love Machine (novel) The Love Machine is the second novel by Jacqueline Susann, the follow-up to her enormously successful "Valley of the Dolls" (1966). Published by Simon & Schuster in 1969, the book was
Jacqueline Susann by asking, "What do you think of Truman?" Susann quipped, "I think history will prove he's one of the best presidents we've had." On April 2, 1939, Susann married press agent Irving Mansfield, who had impressed her by successfully placing "items" about her in the theater and society pages of New York newspapers. Despite persistent rumors of infidelity on Susann's part, she and Mansfield were devoted to each other, and remained married until her death in 1974. On December 6, 1946, Susann gave birth to their only child, a son whom they named Guy Hildy Mansfield, "Hildy" being for cabaret