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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 215609" data-attributes="member: 5079"><p>I think there's a touch of Jeanne Carmen to Mamie.  Obviously the severity is different; Mamie had an actual career, albeit rather limited and disreputable.  But from the time she re-emerged from obscurity in the 80s to ride the Marilyn-nostalgia, she seemed to overstate her importance.  Universal didn't seem to regard her as more than a starlet and pin-up girl.  No effort was made to build her into a full star, not even the short-lived attention that Jayne and earlier Sheree North got over at Fox.  I'll give her credit though; she's still here and doing her thing.  I'm not sure who the audience is for a 90 year old pin-up girl, but there you go.</p></blockquote><p></p>