Mamie van Doren

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Mamie van Doren (2007)
Mamie van Doren (1987)

Mamie van Doren (actually Joan Lucille Olander , born February 6, 1931 in Rowena , South Dakota ) is an American actress and singer . In the 1950s and 1960s, she was considered one of the most sought-after sex symbols in the United States and was more often compared to Marilyn Monroe .

Career

Van Doren first appeared in public in 1947 when she had a small part on a television show. She sang with the Ted Fio Rito Band and took part in beauty pageants. In 1949 she was named Miss Palm Springs. There she was discovered by Howard Hughes and then received a contract with RKO Pictures and made her film debut in 1951. In the same year her portrait of Alberto Vargas appeared on the cover of Esquire . After further small roles, mostly without her participation being mentioned, she first decided to perform in the theater.

The production company Universal Pictures gave Van Doren a new contract and her stage name in 1954 (her first name alludes to Dwight Eisenhower's wife Mamie ). The first major role she played in 1954 alongside Jeff Chandler in In the Dungeons of Morocco ; Films followed alongside stars such as Tony Curtis , John Wayne , and Lex Barker . She had great success in 1958 in Reporter der Liebe , in which she acted together with Doris Day and Clark Gable . Mamie van Doren was considered the answer to Marilyn Monroe at Universal Studios and was presented as a sex bomb by the gossip press . Together with Monroe and Jayne Mansfield , she was one of the "Three M's", Hollywood's most famous sex symbols. From the 1960s onwards, her career got stuck in B-movies . She appeared increasingly in television productions and in the following years went on a nightclub tour with her own program. She also performed in Las Vegas in the 1970s .

Music recordings and other activities

In the 1950s and 1960s, van Doren made numerous music recordings for her films, some of which were also released on vinyl, mostly rock 'n' roll . Worth mentioning are Oobala Baby (1957 from Ripe Blossoms), The Girl Who Invented Rock and Roll (1958 from Reporter's Love), and Hey Mama (1959). In 1964 Bikini With No Top on Top appeared, a duet with June Wilkinson . However, van Doren did not aim for a music career. Her first music album was released in 2011 under the title Still a Troublemaker .

In June 1964, pictures of her appeared in Playboy . In 1968 and 1970 she worked for the United Service Organizations as a troop supervisor for the US soldiers stationed in Vietnam. Her autobiography Playing the Field was published in 1987 . In 2006 she had her picture taken with Pamela Anderson for a special edition of Vanity Fair .

Mamie van Doren has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (7051 Hollywood Blvd.).

Private life

She was married five times, including to the composer and actor Ray Anthony ; their son is Perry Ray Anthony (* 1956). She has been married to Thomas Dixon since 1979.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1951: A Kind of Woman (His Kind of Woman)
  • 1951: Three women conquer New York (Two Tickets to Broadway)
  • 1951: Footlight Varieties
  • 1953: The All American
  • 1953: Strandgut (Forbidden)
  • 1954: In the dungeons of Morocco (Yankee Pasha)
  • 1955: It's only available in Kansas (The Second Greatest Sex)
  • 1955: Ain't Misbehavin '
  • 1955: Running Wild
  • 1956: You should still hang today (Star in the Dust)
  • 1957: Ripe flowers (Untamed Youth)
  • 1957: The Girl in Black Stockings
  • 1957: jet fighter (Jet Pilot)
  • 1958: Reporter of Love (Teacher's Pet)
  • 1958: At seventeen on the precipice (High School Confidential!)
  • 1958: Born Reckless
  • 1958: gangsters, gin and hot rabbits (Guns, Girls, and Gangsters)
  • 1958: Girls with pretty legs (Le bellissime gambe di Sabrina)
  • 1959: The Beat Generation
  • 1959: The Big Operator
  • 1959: Blonde curls - sharp claws (Girls Town)
  • 1960: The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
  • 1960: Raid on call girls (Vice Raid)
  • 1960: College Confidential
  • 1960: Sex Kittens Go to College
  • 1961: Una americana en Buenos Aires
  • 1964: 3 nuts in Search of a Bolt
  • 1964: Freddy and the Song of the Prairie
  • 1964: The Candidate
  • 1966: The Las Vegas Hillbillys
  • 1966: Cargo Fatal (The Navy vs. The Night Monsters)
  • 1967: You've Got to Be Smart
  • 1968: Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
  • 1970: The Arizona Kid
  • 1975: That Girl from Boston
  • 1986: Free Ride
  • 1999: The Vegas Connection
  • 2002: Slackers
  • 2017: Mansfield 66/67 (Documentation)

Discography (selection)

  • 1957: Untamed Youth (Prep Records)
  • 1957: Salamander / Go, Go, Calypso! (Prep Records)
  • 1957: Something To Dream About / I Fell In Love (Capitol Records)
  • 1958: Nobody But You (Dot Records)
  • 1959: The Beat Generation (Dot Records)
  • 1964: Bikini With No Top on Top (duet with June Wilkinson ; Jubilee Records)
  • 1976: As In Mamie Van Doren (Album, Churchill Records)
  • 1986: Young Dudes (Rhino Records)

bibliography

  • Mamie van Doren: My Naughty, Naughty Life! , Century, 1964.
  • Mamie van Doren: I Swing , Chicago, Novel Books, 1965.
  • Mamie van Doren: My Wild Love Experiences , Chicago, Novel Books, 1965.
  • Mamie van Doren: Playing the Field: My Story , New York, GP Putnam, 1987.
    • New edition under the title Playing the Field: Sex, Stardom, Love, and Life in Hollywood , Starlet Suave Books, 2013.

Secondary literature

Web links

Commons : Mamie Van Doren  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Tuscaloosa News - Google News Archive Search. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Ted Fio Rito. "King for a Day" . In: bigbandlibrary.com, accessed February 23, 2017
  3. ↑ Mamie van Doren . In: glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com, accessed February 23, 2017
  4. ↑ Dial “M” for Mamie: A Conversation with Mamie Van Doren ( Memento of February 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: popcultureaddict.com, accessed February 23, 2017
  5. ^ Mamie van Doren: Playing the Field: My Story , ISBN 978-0-399-13240-7 , New York: GP Putnam, 1987.
personal data
SURNAME Van Doren, mommy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lucille Olander, Joan (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Rowena , South Dakota , United States