Blonde Bombshell Mamie Van Doren Vintage 1960 Sex Kitten Photograph Co - Ed Pin Up
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ITEM: This is a vintage and original Allied Artists Pictures production still photograph from the 1960 comedy film Sex Kittens Go to College. Blonde bombshell Mamie Van Doren is pictured here as a seductively collegiate glamour girl pin-up vixen vamping for the camera in a rather skimpy graduation gown and cap. A smoldering Classic Hollywood view of the actress.
An actress, model, singer, and sex symbol, Van Doren is known for being one of the first actresses to imitate the look of Marilyn Monroe. Van Doren is perhaps best remembered for the rock 'n' roll, juvenile delinquency exploitation movie "Untamed Youth" (1957), and other films of this calibre.
Measures 8" x 10" on a glossy single weight paper stock.
Pencil notations on verso.
CONDITION: Fine condition with toning along the edges of the photo and general storage/handling wear. Please use the included images as a conditional guide.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
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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 artist in director Tommy Noonan's tickle-and-tease farce Three Nuts in Search of a Bolt (1964). Disappearing from films in the 1970s, Van Doren continued popping up at important Hollywood social functions and awards presentations, as zaftig and exhibitionist as ever, much to the delight of her ever-growing fan club. In 1987 Mamie Van Doren wrote her memoirs, Playing the Field, in which she claims she slept with practically every male star in the entertainment industry.
– AllMovie Biography By: Hal Erickson
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