Mamie Van Doren has been played on NTS shows including Jazzman, with The Beat Generation first played on 20 November 2018.

Born Joan Lucille Olander in South Dakota on February 6, 1931. Mesmerized by the distant glamour of Hollywood, Joan's farm family packed up and moved to Los Angeles in 1942. Her first acting job was at the age of 13 in one of the very early television shows as Little Joanie, the Flower Girl. At the age of 15 she won several beauty contests and found herself not only in the attention of the film studio RKO, but also in the eyes of director …