This Week at PCA: Mamie Van Doren

Dial “M” for Mamie: A Conversation with Mamie Van Doren

One of Hollywood’s most legendary sex symbols of the 1950’s, actress Mamie Van Doren was part of the platinum trinity known as “The Three M’s” – Marilyn, Mansfield and Mamie.  However, as fate would have it, Mamie is the only one of the three left to talk about her Hollywood experience as a sex goddess.  One of the most insightful actresses I have ever interviewed, Mamie sits firmly in the present, taking her memories and playing with them like a cultural historian, and comes up with some of the most remarkable commentaries on classic Hollywood that PCA has ever recorded.  Mamie talks about her career, censorship, her life today and her memories of legends such as Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Howard Hughes, Rock Hudson and, of course, Marilyn Monroe.  Mamie Van Doren is nothing like I expected she’d be.  She is so much more.  Check out her amazing insights today at PCA!