Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story

TV Movie
1998
TV-14
2h

IMDb RATING

5.2/10

121

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Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story (1998)

Biography Drama

The life of Valley of the Dolls author Jacqueline Susann, filled with frustrations and glamour as she settles to become a best-selling writer after struggling as an actress. Based on Barbara... Read allThe life of Valley of the Dolls author Jacqueline Susann, filled with frustrations and glamour as she settles to become a best-selling writer after struggling as an actress. Based on Barbara Seaman's biography.The life of Valley of the Dolls author Jacqueline Susann, filled with frustrations and glamour as she settles to become a best-selling writer after struggling as an actress. Based on Barbara Seaman's biography.

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IMDb RATING

5.2/10

121

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 4 nominations total

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marblehead-1

Mediocre at best.

This is better then the Bette Midler vehicle but still doesn't work in my opinion. Michelle Lee looks a lot more like Susann then Bette Midler but she doesn't have Susann's spark, you need both. Lee produced this I assume because she wanted to play Susann. The same thing happened with Jessica Lange in the Patsy Cline story, she produced it, she played it, it didn't work,totally miscast. Bottom line: watchable but a missing something.

10jkinoz

This bio is as campy as anything Jacqueline Susann ever wrote.

This bio is as campy and trashy as anything jacqueline Susann ever wrote. Michele Lee does an excellent job in her impersonation of Susann. Unlike Bette Midler's recent performance as Jackie in the movie "Isn't She Great", Lee is believable and makes the audience care. As an added treat, Barbara Parkins show up as Susann's book editor and gets to mutter the line, "Where is Barbara Parkins?" as she watches a scene from "Valley of the Dolls" be filmed. Whether you are a Jacqueline Susann fan or not, this one is worth checking out.

Susann would have loved it!

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Trivia
Barbara Parkins, who plays literary agent Annie Laurie Williams, originally played "Anne Welles" in the 1967 original version of "Valley of the Dolls."

Quotes
Jacqueline Susann: That's Patty Duke over there, and this is Sharon Tate.
Annie Laurie Williams: Um. And where is, what's her name - Barbara Parkins?
Sharon Tate: She's not in this scene.
Annie Laurie Williams: Well, she should be.