Helen Gurley Brown (DVD)

She's a publishing legend whose own story reads like a romance novel a self-described "mouseburger" who rose from a tragic childhood in the Arkansas Ozarks to become the toast of Manhattan. Helen Gurley Brown kicked off the sexual revolution with her book Sex and the Single Girl. Her magazine, Cosmopolitan, was the first and most successful of all the glossy guides to the good life for young women. In remarkable interviews friends and colleagues like Judith Krantz, Gloria Steinem, Liz Smith and Burt Reynolds who made history with his centerfold shot in Cosmo offer an up-close look at the influential editor. See how her personal life mirrored the success of her career, and explore her remarkable legacy in publishing and society. Trace the meteoric saga of the girl who had nothing but went on to create the ultimate guide to having it all and became a legend in the process.

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