Back in October, we brought you a guide to finest examples of on-screen cleavage from the days of pre-code Hollywood. In our ongoing quest to revisit Hollywood history through the nip-slip and up-skirt crazed lens of the celebrity coverage of today, we now point you to the World Of Wonder blog, where Chip Duckett has nothing but praise for a recent “accidental boob reveal” by Mamie Van Doren. “This woman is 77 years old, and is frankly hotter than anybody on the planet one-third her age,” Duckett writes. This, he says, is how the “oopsie! semi-nip-slip…is done properly in 2008.”
Van Doren, seen at her heyday at right, was Universal’s card in the Marilyn Monroe copycat craze of the late 50s, the star of such not-quite-classics at Ain’t Misbehavin‘ and High School Confidential! She’s been pretty much off the radar since the end of the Fantasy Island era, but with the tenuous Marilyn connection intact, can we assume this is Van Doren’s entry in the Monroe–>Lohan–>Musto self-promotion-via-calculated toplessness sweepstakes? Let’s hope!