Jacqueline Susann restaurant, Susann heard someone shout, "There's the Schiffli girl!" Susann, realizing that 25 years of hard work had culminated only in recognition as the "Schiffli girl," was discouraged." She later appeared in a 1971 episode of the crime drama "Mannix" ("The Crime That Wasn't", airdate January 29, 1971). During the mid-1950s, Susann had written a science-fiction novel called "The Stars Scream" (published posthumously as "Yargo"). In the early 1960s, she considered writing a book about show business and drug use, to be entitled "The Pink Dolls". In 1962, however, after encouragement from showman Billy Rose, husband of Susann friend Joyce
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