Background
Irving Mansfield was born Irving Mandelbaum on July 23, 1908 in Brooklyn, New New York
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Mansfield graduated from New York University in the early 1930s.
Career
After working in public relations for several years, Mansfield became a producer with Columbia Broadcasting System in 1946 and developed Arthur Godfrey"s Talent Scouts, This Is Show Business and The Jane Froman Show, among other programs. In doing so, Mansfield provided publicity for several of his wife"s novels and also produced movie versions of his wife"s novels Valley of the Dolls, Once Is Not Enough and The Love Machine, as well as a 1981 television mini-series version of Valley of the Dolls. Mansfield died on August 25, 1988, in his home in Manhattan, New York at the age of 80 due to a massive heart attack.
A funeral service for Mansfield was held on August 28 at the Riverside Chapel located at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 76th Street in Manhattan.
