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Mamie Van Doren & Bo Belinsky
THE CURVE THAT THREW THE PITCHER!
You’d think a baseball pitcher would know better! So how come a southpaw hurler whose favorite pitch (consistent with his wacky personality) is the screwball — goes to bat in the game of love and lets a curve throw him?
The curve, of course, is blond, browneyed Mamie Van Doren, who has exhibited her stuff mainly in minor Hollywood movie league. Mamie, a righthander, has compiled an oh-for-two record on the matrimonial circuit, with a brief marriage at age fifteen and a five-year, tempest-tossed marriage to band leader Ray Anthony.
The pitcher who is dazzled by Mamie’s curve is Bo (otherwise known as “Beau”) Belinsky. In his rookie year, Bo pitched a no-hit, no-run game for the Los Angeles Angels (it’s like winning the Academy Award as Best Actor for the first picture you made), and then went on to star in “The Dakotas,” “77 Sunset Strip” and “The Lloyd Bridges Show” among others, and to pitch woo off-screen and off-diamond to such pulchritudinous players as Tina Louise, Zenaida Abella, Donna “Prettiest Eyes” Hovey, the Stevens girls — Connie, Dodie and Kay, Carmen Phillips, Gloria Eves, Michele Swain, Zsa Zsa Gabor and AnnMargret. Not bad pitching.
To find out how the pitcher-actorplayboy let the curve throw him — and to discover what special motion or technique the curve used— we went to the
House of Serfas, a restaurant in Los Angeles, separated Bo and Mamie (a hard thing to do!) and asked each (with the other out of earshot) to give a “His” and “Hers” version of their romance, engagement and marriage plans. Mamie was first to talk, a privilege we give to ladies.
How did you meet Bo?
“It was a blind date. My ex-husband, Ray Anthony, sort of played Cupid, you know. Ray called me when he was with Bo. he wanted me to meet them at some club. I said I didn’t feel like it, that it was too late. So I said why don’t I talk to Bo on the phone. So 1 did and I said, why don’t you call me tomorrow and then we can make a date.
“And so he did. We went out the next night. I had never met him before. That was last September, I think.”
Is Bo a pretty good tivister?
“As a matter of fact, I didn’t twist with him that night. He sat it out. I guess he was all tired out from playing that night. I twisted with Winchell.”
( Walter W inched. Bo’s friend and adviser, has appeared in a film with Mamie, “ College Confidential.”)
Did you like Bo right away?
“I liked him a lot but I didn’t have anything on my mind like marriage. And he didn’t try to snow me. We were just like a brother and sister team that night. We really were.”
After that first night, did you go out several times ( Continued on page 97)
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