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Mamie van Doren
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Actor Born: February 6, 1933 in Rowena, SD Biography:1950s "sex bomb" "Mamie Van Doren" could act, but reviewers seldom got any farther than commenting on her torpedo bras and skin-tight capri pants. She made her professional bow as a band singer, acting in stock companies before signing a contract with Universal Pictures in 1953. There would be a few A pictures in her future, notably the "Clark Gable"-"Doris Day" comedy "Teacher's Pet" (1958), but Van Doren's career was mainly devoted to tawdry exploitation programmers and drive-in quickies. She became the resident Marilyn Monroe-type for fast-buck producer "Albert Zugsmith" in the late 1950s and early 1960s, starring in such films as "The Beat Generation" (1958), "The Big Operator" (1959), "The Private Lives of Adam and Eve" (1960), and her signature film, "Sex Kittens Go To College" (1960). She also showed up in the "musical j.d." epic "Born Reckless" (singing five songs) and as a neurotic striptease... Full Biography
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