The word “miracle” comes up so often in the show — starting with the mop’s name and ending with the grand finale, “Go Make a ...

Joy Mangano’s inspirational rise from rags to inventor to QVC queen has been a Jennifer Lawrence movie and a book. Now it’s ...

A feel-good trifle that blithely defies our ability to suspend disbelief, ‘JOY’ nonetheless offers modest charms in its ...

The inspiring story about the Long Island entrepreneur opens Sunday Off-Broadway with Betsy Wolfe as Joy Mangano.

Tony nominee Betsy Wolfe says the show offers audiences “a beautiful examination of where you are, where you've been, and ...

A musical about the Miracle Mop, an iconic product of West Chester-headquartered QVC, is currently running Off-Broadway, ...

Her story inspired the movie "Joy" which starred Jennifer Lawrence as Mangano and earned the actress a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination. Today, Mangano has more than 100 patents ...

Inventor Joy Mangano has sold more than $3 billion worth of home products. To get to that point, she didn't sell her house or take on a huge loan. She didn't even quit her day job. Her career ...

She convinced QVC to put her on air for her invention, the Miracle Mop -- the first-ever self-wringing cotton mop -- and sold 18,000 of them in just 20 minutes.

QVC inspired the creation of another catalog channel, Home Shopping Network, to whose parent company, USA Networks, Mangano would sell her company after inventing more than 100 products.

Sales skyrocketed and Mangano’s career as a QVC pitchwoman was launched. She later moved to the Home Shopping Network, and, in 1999, she sold the company to HSN, staying on as its president.