I don't doubt that Fields speaks the truth, but it's not at all a surprize. WTF was she doing messing around with 40ish B movie actor at 14? Where was her mother?
At any rate I have a personal 2nd hand account on Mahoney: Back we he would have been about 50, my mother in law recounted the time she met him on a cruise. To put it mildly she was awestruck. Her description of his bronzed masculinity and class was starry eyed and this woman was 60.
"I'm ridin'