KISS AND SELL

When 1950s sex symbol Mamie Van Doren’s tell-all-and-then-some autobiography “Playing the Field” debuts in September, book readers will discover the blonde bombshell delivers hits to all fields. In “revealing detail,” she discusses her affairs and “other close relationships” with several men, including Rock Hudson, Steve McQueen, Spiro Agnew, Joe Namath, Howard Hughes, Frank Sinatra, Henry Kissinger, Warren Beatty and Joe DiMaggio. She also reveals that she had a decade-long affair with Johnny Carson and a brief liaison with Burt Reynolds.

National Enquirer editor Iain Calder rejected the book for serialization due to its content (his competitor the Star runs excerpts later this summer). Explains Calder: “We thought the book was a little racy. It left little to the imagination. If you took the sexy stuff out, I doubt that you’d have much of a book.”

Van Doren, who is portraying a madame in the upcoming HBO miniseries “Glory Days,” told us: “I want to be taken seriously as an actress. Hopefully my book might also get people to take me seriously as a writer.”