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Signed by Universal Studios at age 18 with the hope that they could make her their answer to 20th Century Fox's Marilyn Monroe.

In 2006, Mamie posed for photographs for Vanity Fair magazine with Pamela Anderson, as part of its annual Hollywood issue.

She was awarded a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars in Palm Springs, California on December 3, 2005.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7057 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 1, 1994.

Though her film career seemed to have fallen from grace, she performed a nightclub act in Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1970s.

Was considered for the role of Venus De Marco in the horror film The Ice House (1969), which went to Sabrina.

During the Vietnam War, she did tours for U.S. troops in Vietnam for three months in 1968, and again in 1970. In addition to USO shows, she visited hospitals, including the wards of amputees and burn victims.

the Night Monsters (1966) and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968).

In 1964, she was a guest at the Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood when The Beatles were at the club visiting Jayne Mansfield, and an inebriated George Harrison accidentally threw his drink on her while trying to throw it on some bothersome journalists.

In 1963, she posed twice for Playboy magazine to promote her film 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt (1964), though she was never a Playmate.

Issued out three quickie paperback biographies to juice up her fading popularity: "My Naughty, Naughty Life" (1961), "I Swing" (1965) and "My Wild Love Experiences" (1965).

She is an actress, known for Teacher's Pet (1958), The Navy vs.

Her film Untamed Youth (1957) was originally condemned by the Catholic Legion of Decency, but that only served to enhance the curiosity factor, resulting in it being a big moneymaker for the studio.

Gave birth to her first child at age 25, a son, Perry Ray Anthony on March 18, 1956. Child's father is her second husband Ray Anthony.

Once posed for famous pin-up girl artist Alberto Vargas, the painter of the glamorous "Vargas Girls". His painting of Van Doren was on the July 1951 cover of Esquire magazine.

In the summer of 1949, at age 18, she won the titles Miss Eight Ball and Miss Palm Springs.

Mamie Van Doren was born on February 6, 1931 in Rowena, South Dakota, USA as Joan Lucille Olander.