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Jaqueline Susann (1918-1974)
 
Novels: 
Yargo (1950’s) - Science Fiction 
Every Night, Josephine! (1963) - epistolary novel about her poodle
Valley of the Dolls (1966)
The Love Machine (1969)
Once is Not Enough (1973)
 
Sex and Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown
 
Must watch film: Valley of the Doll (1967), starring Patty Duke, Susan Hayward, Sharon Tate, and Barbara Parkins
 
Music:
Valley of the Dolls theme sung by Dionne Warwick
"The Love Machine" theme sung by Dionne Warwick
 
Thank you to  David Plell and Powerbleeder for our theme song "Future Mind" listen here!

We've been on hiatus for some time! Thank you for your patience while I took a vacation - Xoe
 
Carole Lombard (1908-1942) nee Jane Alice Peters
 
Must-see movies:
To Be or Not To Be (1942)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
No Man of Her Own (1932)
 
Marriages: 
William Powell (1931-1933)
Clark Gable (1939-1942)
 
Clip of the Love of Carole’s Life - Russ Columbo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-zQWgOKFTg&t=102s
Thank you to  David Plell and Powerbleeder for our theme song "Future Mind" listen here!

Carole Lombard (1908-1942) nee Jane Alice Peters
 
Must-see movies:
To Be or Not To Be (1942)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
No Man of Her Own (1932)
 
Marriages: 
William Powell (1931-1933)
Clark Gable (1939-1942)
 
Clip of the Love of Carole’s Life - Russ Columbo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-zQWgOKFTg&t=102s
Thank you to  David Plell and Powerbleeder for our theme song "Future Mind" listen here!

Pt III of III
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
 
Novels
Sense and Sensibility (1811) published when Austen was 37 years old
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Mansfield Park (1814)
Emma (1815)
Northanger Abbey (1818, posthumous)
Persuasion (1818, posthumous)
Lady Susan (1871, posthumous)
 
Our favorite adaptations:
BBC P&P (1995) - the best! Starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle
S&S (1995) - Emma Thompson won an Oscar for Best Adaptation and a new husband
 
Enjoyable Austen fan fiction:
These are the very best:
Bridget Jones’ Diary (2001) - Colin Firth again! Both a tribute and its own thing.
 Lost in Austen (2008) - 4-part BBC TV series: Modern day Londoner switches places with Elizabeth Bennett - adorable!
 
These are fun too:
Austenland (2013)- rom-com about immersive Austen cosplay
Becoming Jane (2007) - starring Anne Hathaway as Austen in a fictionalized story about her failed romance with Tom LeFroy
Death Comes to Pemberley (2013) - BBC 3-part murder mystery based the book by E. L. James
 
Darcy in the water statue 
Other Music: Excerpts from BBC's Pride and Prejudice (1996).
Thank you to  David Plell and Powerbleeder for our theme song "Future Mind" listen here!

We'll be back in June with the final part of the Jane Austen Series!

Pt II of III
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
 
Novels
Sense and Sensibility (1811) published when Austen was 37 years old
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Mansfield Park (1814)
Emma (1815)
Northanger Abbey (1818, posthumous)
Persuasion (1818, posthumous)
Lady Susan (1871, posthumous)
 
Our favorite adaptations:
BBC P&P (1995) - the best! Starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle
S&S (1995) - Emma Thompson won an Oscar for Best Adaptation and a new husband
 
Enjoyable Austen fan fiction:
These are the very best:
Bridget Jones’ Diary (2001) - Colin Firth again! Both a tribute and its own thing.
 Lost in Austen (2008) - 4-part BBC TV series: Modern day Londoner switches places with Elizabeth Bennett - adorable!
 
These are fun too:
Austenland (2013)- rom-com about immersive Austen cosplay
Becoming Jane (2007) - starring Anne Hathaway as Austen in a fictionalized story about her failed romance with Tom LeFroy
Death Comes to Pemberley (2013) - BBC 3-part murder mystery based the book by E. L. James
 
Darcy in the water statue 
Other Music: Excerpts from BBC's Pride and Prejudice (1996).
Thank you to  David Plell and Powerbleeder for our theme song "Future Mind" listen here!