Irving Mansfield Mansfield gave up his career to help his wife promote her book, "Valley of the Dolls", which was published in 1966 and became the best-selling novel of the year. Mansfield continued to work with his wife in promoting her subsequent novels, "The Love Machine" (1969) and "Once Is Not Enough" (1973), both among the top three sellers of their respective years. Mansfield also executive-produced movie versions of his wife's novels "The Love Machine" (1971) and "Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough" (1975), as well as a 1981 television mini-series version of "Valley". Mansfield met Jacqueline Susann, then an aspiring stage
Jacqueline Susann Sweet Princess", which Susann did not live to write. Josephine died on January 6, 1970, just days before her sixteenth birthday. In 1962, at the age of 44, Susann was diagnosed with breast cancer, and underwent a radical mastectomy. During her recuperation, she made a pact with God: if she were given ten more years of life, she would prove herself to be the best-selling writer in the world. With her diagnosis, Susann felt an urgency to make money as quickly as possible, so as to ensure that her son would be properly cared for the rest of his life.