Playing the Field by Mamie Van Doren - copyright 1987 1st printing - hardcover book without dustjacket is in good condition - cover is in very good condition with no wear - book inside is ingood condition with no torn or missing page nor writing - first few pages have very light moisture wear ..........Missing dustjacket

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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