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
Valley of the Dolls (film) Gaille Heidemann for Patty Duke. Heidemann and Wilson are uncredited on the soundtrack label. The original version of "I'll Plant My Own Tree" (recorded by Judy Garland before she was fired from the film) was finally released in 1976 on a compilation LP, "Cut! Out-takes from Hollywood's Greatest Musicals". "Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann" (1987) by Barbara Seaman states that Ruth Batchelor, who wrote lyrics for Elvis Presley, wrote the lyrics for a title song for the movie. Batchelor's song was rejected by the studio as the Previns had already written the soundtrack. It was recorded by The