A biography for Mamie Van Dorenhasn’t been written yet.
“It's such a shame that you were put in a category of a dumb blonde, but that's what they did in the '50s. You fought the system, but you didn't win.”
“Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.”
“I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.”
“I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.”
“My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.”