Mamie Van Doren Net Worth

Mamie Van Doren's Quotes

• I don't wear panties anymore - this startles the Hollywood wolves so much they don't know what to pull at, so they leave me alone.
• I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
• There's a scene in The Aviator (2004) that depicts Howard Hughes' first meeting with Faith Domergue that comes very close to the scene in my book 'Playing the Field' describing my first meeting with him. He asks Faith how old she is. Answer: 15. He asked me the same thing. Answer: 16. He even asks if she lived with her parents and how nice it was that she lived at home. The only thing he didn't ask her in the movie was the main thing he asked me: "Are you a virgin?".
• At my age, having an orgasm is like having an occasional cocktail.
• [on the period in the early 1960s when she was engaged to baseball star pitcher Bo Belinsky] It was a wild ride, but a lot of fun.

Interesting Facts about Mamie Van Doren

1. In the summer of 1949, at age 18, she won the titles Miss Eight Ball and Miss Palm Springs.
2. Signed by Universal Studios at age 18 with the hope that they could make her their answer to 20th Century Fox's Marilyn Monroe.
3. Was discovered by Howard Hughes the night she was crowned Miss Palm Springs. He dated her for five years and launched her career by placing her in several RKO films.
4. Her film Untamed Youth (1957) was originally condemned by the Catholic Legion of Decency, but that only served to enhance the curiosity factor, resulting in it being a big moneymaker for the studio.
5. Issued out three quickie paperback biographies to juice up her fading popularity: "My Naughty, Naughty Life" (1961), "I Swing" (1965) and "My Wild Love Experiences" (1965).
6. She took her stage name (Mamie) from "First Lady" Mamie Eisenhower.
7. Has appeared with Jackie Coogan in four films: High School Confidential! (1958), The Beat Generation (1959), The Big Operator (1959) and Sex Kittens Go to College (1960).
8. Once posed for famous pin-up girl artist Alberto Vargas, the painter of the glamorous "Vargas Girls". His painting of Van Doren was on the July 1951 cover of Esquire magazine.
9. Along with fellow blonde goddesses Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield, she was known as one of "The Three M's".
10. Gave birth to her first child at age 25, a son, Perry Ray Anthony on March 18, 1956. Child's father is her second husband Ray Anthony.
11. In 1963, she posed twice for Playboy magazine to promote her film 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt (1964), though she was never a Playmate.
12. In 1964, she was a guest at the Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood when The Beatles were at the club visiting Jayne Mansfield, and an inebriated George Harrison accidentally threw his drink on her while trying to throw it on some bothersome journalists.
13. During the Vietnam War, she did tours for U.S. troops in Vietnam for three months in 1968, and again in 1970. In addition to USO shows, she visited hospitals, including the wards of amputees and burn victims.
14. Though her film career seemed to have fallen from grace, she performed a nightclub act in Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1970s.
15. Since the release of her autobiography "Playing the Field", she has often been interviewed and occasionally returned to acting. She has consistently denied in interviews ever having breast implants.
16. She and her husband Thomas Dixon maintain her website where various merchandise along with home-made short films starring herself are available. It also provides contemporary topless and nude photographs and her outspoken political views.
17. Was considered for the role of Venus De Marco in the horror film The Ice House (1969), which went to Sabrina.
18. Was mentioned in the song "High School Confidential" by the Canadian New Wave group Rough Trade.
19. She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7057 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 1, 1994.
20. She was awarded a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars in Palm Springs, California on December 3, 2005.