{"id":4317,"date":"2025-04-27T23:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T23:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=4317"},"modified":"2025-04-27T23:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T23:01:22","slug":"she-was-a-50s-sex-symbol-who-left-hollywood-for-her-son-at-94-she-still-proves-that-age-is-just-a-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=4317","title":{"rendered":"She Was a 50s Sex Symbol Who Left Hollywood for Her Son \u2013 at 94, She Still Proves That Age Is Just a Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mamie Van Doren\u2019s life reads like a classic Hollywood script, filled with glamour, rebellion, love, and surprising reinvention. Once a sultry blonde bombshell who captivated the silver screen in the 1950s, she lived the dream many only fantasized about\u2014and yet, when the glitz faded, she made a bold decision to walk away from it all.<\/p>\n<p>Born in South Dakota, Mamie\u2019s early years were far from the sparkle of Hollywood. But she always dreamed bigger. That dream began to take shape when she moved to California as a teenager, and it didn\u2019t take long before her striking looks caught the attention of Howard Hughes. Soon, she was crowned Miss Eight Ball by the Los Angeles Press Club in 1949, following in the footsteps of another future icon, Marilyn Monroe. That moment launched her into the orbit of Hollywood stardom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mamie Van Doren\u2019s life reads like a classic Hollywood script, filled with glamour, rebellion, love, and surprising reinvention. Once a sultry blonde bombshell who captivated the silver&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4319,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions\/4319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}