Playing the Field by Mamie Van Doren - copyright 1987 1st printing - hardcover
book with dustjacket is in very good condition - dustjacket is in very good
condition with very minor wear - book inside is in very
good condition with no other writing nor torn or missing pages
Signed Card attached to title page "To Herndon Price with much love Mamie Van Doren 4-7-83"
Mamie
Van Doren was one of the Big Three Sex Symbols of the 1950's - Marilyn
Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and Van Doren. In her autobiography, Van Doren
revisits her career which includes steamy relationships with men such as
Steve McQueen, Burt Reynolds, Johnny Carson, Rock Hudson (yeah, Rock
Hudson!), and bandleader and husband Ray Anthony, as well as would-be
suitors like Cary Grant and Warren Beatty, and her friendship with Elvis
and Clark Gable.
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Van
Doren thrived during the 1950's, the era of the blonde bombshell, but
poignantly describes her realization following the death of Jayne
Mansfield that that particular era had passed. By that time both she and
Mansfield are struggling to find movie roles and have to do nightclub
acts and dinner theater. Mansfield, in fact, was to fill in for Van
Doren in the first few weeks of a show that Van Doren would later
complete, when the auto accident in which Mansifled was killed occurred.
There
are other excellent points in the book, such as Van Doren's grueling
hospital tours in Viet Nam and her struggle with a career-breaking story
in Confidential which would claim she and her mother were prostitutes
-- Van Doren discovers who the rat was who made that claim but doesn't
name that person).
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