Dovie Beams(1932-2017)
- Actress
- Producer
Nashville-born Dovie Leona Osborne(b. August 5, 1932), was a piano
teacher before her brief tenure in B and C grade movies. Dovie's
greatest notoriety, however, would come following her 1968-1970 fling
with Phillipines President Ferdinand Marcos. After allegedly
audio-recording their sexual trysts in secret, Dovie presented the
tapes to the press and divulged the affair. This ignited a scandal
which shook that country to its roots for years to come, significantly
damaging Marcos' reputation, and marking Dovie as a potential
assassination target. Since leaving the Phillipines in the wake of this
sordid situation, Dovie's film career has stonewalled, and she remains
far from the public eye. The Beams/Marcos scandal was chronicled in
Hermie Rotea's 1983 book "Marcos' Lovey Dovie", though controversy
persists concerning the book's factually.