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"I’ve never acted my age and I never will. It’s just the way I’ve always been."
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Mamie Van Doren is an American retired actress and model. The last living blonde bombshell, she is one of the "Three M's", a group formed by Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield, who were contemporaries. In 1953, Van Doren, then named Joan Lucille Olander, signed a seven-year contract with Universal, which hoped that she would be their version of Monroe. She starred in teen dramas, exploitation, mus
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"She [Marilyn Monroe] was so vulnerable to the world, but what a sweet person she really was, lovable, compassionate—I have nothing but grace for Marilyn, and she should have been at least nominated for an Academy Award for Bus Stop.. But in those days, they preferred to nominate the Bette Davis kind of stars."
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"You know, talking about Marilyn Monroe is strange. To me, she’s a person; to most people, she’s an idea."
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"In films, she [Jayne Mansfield] played mostly character roles, while Marilyn did more sophisticated movies, and I did several rock n roll movies. The three of us were often compared, maybe because we had blonde hair, but all three of us were very different."
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"They said I wasn’t the type for it, so they put a dark blonde wig on me. They wanted me to look like Grace Kelly with breasts."
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"I have done A movies too, but I preferred doing B movies—if that’s what people want to call them, then so be it. Elvis Presley did B movies; Jack Nicholson did B movies,… So when I am referred to as ‘The Queen of the B Movies,’ I leave that to the person who reads it."
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