![]() ![]() To her, women who wanted little out of life got even less: ‘A woman who lives only for love is a dull woman indeed’.īorn in Philadelphia in 1918 to a portrait artist and his teacher wife, the young Jackie was happiest making models of penises out of clay and shoving said appendages into hastily made gashes in her dolls and teddies. But she was branded with the Big A: ambitious as her mind was broad. ![]() She’d found her man – Irv Mansfield, a Broadway and Hollywood producer – and loved him with every fibre of her brash being. She despised the ageing process with a passion though her fears were by no means confined to the shallows her desire to make some impact upon this world burned like an incendiary. Even at the age of 44,she’d composed a list of what not to do in old age fired equally by vanity and practicality (‘Don’t wear orthopaedic shoes’, ‘Don’t reminisce’, ‘Listen’). Not that she’d have ever admitted to being a nonagenarian. ![]() Jacqueline Susann, one-time best-selling author and originator of the stropping-and-fucking genre with her smash ‘n’ grab, world-beating bonk-buster Valley of the Dolls, would be 90 had cancer not claimed her Pucci-clad body in 1973 when she was a mere 55. ![]()
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