Jayne Mansfield

Biography

Actress, vocalist, and sex image who all appeared on Broadway in Can Success Spoil Rock and roll Hunter? Her many Hollywood credits are the Girl Can’t MAKE IT, The Wayward Bus, and Kiss Them for me personally. As a kid, she was a talented pianist and violinist who provided impromptu concerts in her family’s driveway. She passed away at age thirty-four within an car accident. Her three relationships produced five kids. Her little girl, Mariska Hargitay, also became a well-known celebrity. Mansfield agreed upon a agreement with Twentieth Hundred years Fox that specified her as Marilyn Monroe’s public sex symbol replacing.

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#	Fact
1	Her daughter Mariska Hargitay received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame right next to hers.
2	It is said that the bumper bars that are seen on the rear of modern semi-trailers were mandated after her death, and are sometimes referred to as "Mansfield Bars".
3	Even though she divorced her first husband, Paul Mansfield, she kept the last name Mansfield because it sounded "Hollywood" to her. She felt that it would help gain her stardom.
4	Gave birth to her fifth child at age 32, a son, Tony Cimber, on October 18th, 1965. Child's father is her 3rd husband Matt Cimber.
5	Gave birth to her fourth child at age 30, a daughter, Mariska Hargitay, on January 24th, 1964. Child's father is her 2nd ex husband, Mickey Hargitay.
6	Gave birth to her third child at age 27, a son, Zoltan Hargitay, on August 1st, 1960. Child's father is her 2nd ex-husband, Mickey Hargitay.
7	Gave birth to her second child at age 25, a son, Mickey Hargitay Jr. on December 21st, 1958. Child's father is her 2nd ex-husband, Mickey Hargitay.
8	Gave birth to her first child at age 17, a daughter, Jayne Marie Mansfield, on November 8th, 1950. Child's father is her 1st ex-husband, Paul Mansfield.
9	Biographer Martha Saxton about Mansfield and sex: "If Jayne was a product of the fifties, then she was a casualty of the sixties. In the fifties, Jayne and American men had conspired to keep it a secret. By the sixties the secret was out.".
10	She was Miss Photoflash 1952, the first in a series of beauty awards she would win.
11	She studied with Baruch Lumet in 1952 at his Dallas Institute of the Performing Arts.
12	Her daughter Mariska Hargitay has a zig zag scar on the side of her head from the car accident that killed her mother. Mariska has no memory of the accident since she was only three years old at the time.
13	Before she entered films, Mansfield was coached by Yiddish theater veteran Baruch Lumet, father of Sidney Lumet.
14	Grandmother of Jianni Cimber (Tony's daughter), Brandon and Zoltan Jr. Hargitay.
15	Mother-in-law of Peter Hermann and former mother-in-law of Dana Hargitay. Grandmother of August Miklos Friedrich Hermann (Mariska's son).
16	She was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in March 2008 in Austin, Texas. Her daughter Mariska Hargitay accepted the award.
17	California license plate on her 1956 Lincoln Premiere convertible: NBB 851.
18	She was named the second (out of 100) top Playboy Playmates of all time according to Playboy magazine.
19	Her estate was valued at approximately $2,000,000 at the time of her death, a significant sum by 1967 standards.
20	She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6328 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
21	Though her film career seemed to have fallen from grace in the mid and late 1960s, her nightclub act was huge, earning her $8,000-$17,000 weekly.
22	Was with 20th Century-Fox from 1956-1962.
23	Was the first American actress to appear nude in a mainstream American film (Promises..... Promises! (1963)).
24	Los Angeles heavy metal band L.A. Guns had a top-40 hit in the early 1990s with a song called "The Ballad of Jayne", which was based on her.
25	The Japanese garage rock band The 5.6.7.8's play a song called "I Walk Like Jayne Mansfield".
26	She had a serious drinking problem most of her adult life.
27	Her character in the film The George Raft Story (1961) is based on 1940s bombshell Betty Grable.
28	Only child of Vera and Herbert Palmer. Her father was of 3/4 English and 1/4 German ancestry, and her mother was of English descent.
29	The German punk-rock-band The Bates dedicated the song "The Lips of Jayne Mansfield" (from the album "Shake!") to her.
30	Her death is the subject of the Siouxsie and the Banshees song "Kiss Them for Me", the title of which is taken from her 1957 film.
31	After her death an extension was added to the rear bumper of semi trailers to keep autos from driving under the truck. The were colloquially called Jane Mansfields.
32	The late model Buick that Jayne was killed in was locked in a garage for decades, in the same shape it was in after the crash. The owner, who was a huge fan, displayed it at various shows over the years, and it was sometimes billed as Jayne Mansfield's death car. The car was sold at auction in 1999 for $8000. Reportedly, the car still has the blood stains on the seats.
33	Contrary to popular belief, she was not decapitated in the car crash that killed her. Her death certificate, issued in New Orleans, Louisiana, lists "crushed skull with avulsion of cranium and brain" as the immediate cause of death; her other injuries included "closed fracture of right humerus" and "multiple lacerations of hands and lower extremities".
34	Her goal, as quoted in the book, "Jayne Mansfield and the American Fifties": "To feel satisfied with myself; to know that I have arrived. To be liked. To be a big personality. The real stars are not actors or actresses. They're personalities. The quality of making everyone stop in their tracks is what I work at.".
35	Son Zoltan Hargitay was critically injured by a supposedly tame lion while visiting the Jungleland Zoo in Thousand Oaks, California, but made a full recovery. [December 1966]
36	Claimed to have an I.Q. of 163, though she did not have exceptional grades in school.
37	Was arrested for indecent exposure during her nightclub act in Burlington, Vermont in 1963.
38	Initally divorced Mickey Hargitay on May 1, 1963; she divorced him again in Juarez, Mexico. On August 26, 1964, the California Superior Court recognized the Mexican divorce pronouncement.
39	Made Mr. Blackwell's Worst-Dressed List in 1961 with Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren and Shirley MacLaine. She also made the List in 1964.
40	Was a classically trained pianist and violinist.
41	Spoke five languages.
42	Turned down the role of Ginger Grant on Gilligan's Island (1964), which went to Tina Louise.
43	Had five children: Jayne Marie Mansfield (born November 8, 1950), Mickey Hargitay Jr. (born December 21, 1958), Zoltan Hargitay (born August 1, 1960), Mariska Hargitay (born January 24, 1964) and Tony Cimber (born October 18, 1965).
44	Following her untimely death, she was interred at Fairview Cemetery in Plainfield (Outside of Pen Argyl), Pennsylvania.
45	Producer Louis W. Kellman always said that he "discovered" Jayne Mansfield. He gave the then little known actress her first starring role (Gladden, Dan Duryea's sexy-but-shy gun moll kid sister) in The Burglar (1957) after seeing the normally jaded and unflappable film crew's "overheated" reaction to her on the set of Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) in which she had a small role.
46	Mother of Jayne Marie Mansfield, who appeared in Playboy magazine in 1976, following her mother's footsteps.
47	Playboy Playmate of the Month February 1955.



Actress

Actress

Title	Year	Status	Character
A Guide for the Married Man	1967		Technical Adviser (Girl with Harold)
The Fat Spy	1966		Junior Wellington
The Las Vegas Hillbillys	1966		Tawny
Single Room Furnished	1966		Johnnie / Mae / Eileen
Primitive Love	1964		Dr. Jane
When Strangers Meet	1964		Darlene / Mrs. Smithopolis
Panic Button	1964		Angela
Burke's Law	1964	TV Series	Cleo Patrick
Homesick for St. Pauli	1963		Evelyne
Promises! Promises!	1963		Sandy Brooks
The Red Skelton Hour	1959-1963	TV Series	Dr. Joyce Sisters / Lorelei Lovely / Daisy June
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	1962	TV Series	Marion
It Happened in Athens	1962		Eleni Costa
Follow the Sun	1962	TV Series	Scottie
The George Raft Story	1961		Lisa Lang
Kraft Mystery Theater	1961	TV Series
Monte Carlo	1961	TV Movie
The Loves of Hercules	1960		Queen Deianira / Hippolyta
It Takes a Thief	1960		Billy
Playgirl After Dark	1960		Midnight Franklin
After Hours	1959	TV Series
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw	1958		Kate
Kiss Them for Me	1957		Alice Kratzner
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?	1957		Rita Marlowe
The Burglar	1957		Gladden
The Wayward Bus	1957		Camille Oakes
Shower of Stars	1957	TV Series
The Girl Can't Help It	1956		Jerri Jordan
Sunday Spectacular: The Bachelor	1956	TV Movie	Robin
Female Jungle	1956		Candy Price
Hell on Frisco Bay	1955		Mario's Dance Partner at Nightclub (uncredited)
Illegal	1955		Angel O'Hara
Pete Kelly's Blues	1955		Cigarette Girl
Lux Video Theatre	1954	TV Series	Girl at Piano

Soundtrack

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status	Character
Electric Blue 22	1985	Video performer: "I'm In Love" - uncredited
Electric Blue 4	1982	Video performer: "I'm In Love" - uncredited
The Fat Spy	1966	performer: "I'd Like to be a Rose in Your Garden But I'm Just a Thorn in Your Side"
The Las Vegas Hillbillys	1966	performer: "THAT MAKES IT"
The Jack Benny Program	1963	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Homesick for St. Pauli	1963	performer: "Wo Ist Der Mann", "Snick-Snack Snuckelchen"
Promises! Promises!	1963	performer: "Lu-Lu-Lu, I'm in Love", "Promise Her Anything"
It Takes a Thief	1960	performer: "The Challenge of Love"
Playgirl After Dark	1960	performer: "Too Hot To Handle", "You Were Made For Me"
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw	1958	performer: "In the Valley of Love", "If the San Francisco Hills Could Only Talk", "Strolling Down the Lane with Bill" - uncredited
The Girl Can't Help It	1956	"Rock Around the Rock Pile" / performer: "Ev'rytime" - uncredited
Illegal	1955	performer: "Too Marvelous for Words" - uncredited

Thanks

Thanks

Title	Year	Status	Character
That Man: Peter Berlin	2005	Documentary heavenly thanks
S1m0ne	2002	Simone wishes to thank the following for their contribution to the making of Simone

Self

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield	1968	Documentary	Herself
Dateline: Hollywood	1967	TV Series	Herself
Spree	1967	Documentary	Herself
The Joey Bishop Show	1967	TV Series	Herself
Juke Box Jury	1959-1967	TV Series	Herself - Panelist / Herself - Panellist
Candid Camera	1967	TV Series	Herself
The Pat Boone Show	1967	TV Series	Herself
Poem Posters	1966	Short	Herself
A Bob Hope Comedy Special	1966	TV Special	Herself
The Bob Hope Show	1962-1966	TV Series	Herself / Herself - Guest
The Milton Berle Show	1966	TV Series	Herself
The Merv Griffin Show	1966	TV Series	Herself
What's My Line?	1956-1966	TV Series	Herself - Mystery Guest / Herself
The Match Game	1964-1966	TV Series	Team Captain
Today	1956-1966	TV Series	Herself
The Jack Paar Program	1962-1965	TV Series	Herself / Herself (on film)
Girl Talk	1965	TV Series	Herself
Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine	1964-1965	TV Series	Herself / Game Show Panelist / Sketch / ...
Password All-Stars	1964	TV Series	Herself
Get the Message	1964	TV Series	Herself
Cinépanorama	1957-1964	TV Series documentary	Herself
Reflets de Cannes	1956-1964	TV Series documentary	Herself
Stump the Stars	1962-1964	TV Series	Herself - Guest Panelist / Herself
The Jack Benny Program	1956-1963	TV Series	Herself
The Mike Douglas Show	1963	TV Series	Herself - Co-Host
TV-uutiset ja sää	1963	TV Series	Herself
Miss Skandinavia 1964	1963	TV Special	Herself
The Jack Paar Tonight Show	1961-1962	TV Series	Herself
The Tonight Show	1962	TV Series	Herself
Guest Shot	1962	TV Series documentary	Herself
Here's Hollywood	1961	TV Series	Herself
The Annual National Sports Awards	1961	TV Special	Herself - Presenter
The National Sports Awards	1961	TV Special	Herself - Presenter
This Is Your Life	1960	TV Series	Herself
Hollywood - Ein Vorort in vier Anekdoten	1960	TV Movie documentary	Herself (uncredited)
Person to Person	1956-1960	TV Series documentary	Herself
The Arthur Murray Special for Bob Hope	1960	TV Movie	Herself
Menschen, Hoffnungen, Medaillen	1960	Documentary	Herself
The Steve Allen Plymouth Show	1959-1960	TV Series	Herself / Herself - Guest
Spectacular	1959	TV Series	Herself - Host
The 31st Annual Academy Awards	1959	TV Special	Herself - Performer
Screen Snapshots: Salute to Hollywood	1958	Documentary short	Herself
Hollywood Glamour on Ice	1957	Short	Herself
Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium	1957	TV Series	Herself
The Ed Sullivan Show	1957	TV Series	Herself
Screen Snapshots: The Walter Winchell Party	1957	Documentary short	Herself
Tonight! America After Dark	1957	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Atlantic City Holiday	1956	TV Movie	Herself
Hollywood Preview	1956	TV Series	Herself
Down You Go	1951	TV Series	Herself (Regular Panelist) (1956)

Archive Footage

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All	2015	TV Mini-Series	Herself
Diamonds to Dust	2014		Herself
George Harrison: Living in the Material World	2011	Documentary	Herself
TV Land: Myths and Legends	2008	TV Series documentary	Herself
E! True Hollywood Story	2008	TV Series documentary	Herself
Cannes, 60 ans d'histoires	2007	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Playboy: Celebrity Centerfolds	2006	TV Movie documentary	Herself
American Experience	2005	TV Series documentary	Herself
Candid Camera: 5 Decades of Smiles	2005	Video	Herself
Bettie Page: The Girl in the Leopard Print Bikini	2004	Video documentary	Herself
Biography	2004	TV Series documentary	Herself
Naughty Bits	2004	TV Series	Herself
The People's Hollywood	2003	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second	2003	Video documentary	Herself
Celebrity Naked Ambition	2003	TV Movie documentary
Blond in Hollywood	2003	TV Series documentary	Herself
Living Famously	2003	TV Series documentary	Herself
Cleavage	2002	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Blondes: Diana Dors	1999	TV Special documentary	Herself
Arena	1999	TV Series documentary	Herself
Playboy: The Story of X	1998	Video documentary	Herself
Omnibus	1998	TV Series documentary
E! Mysteries & Scandals	1998	TV Series	Herself
50 años de cámaras ocultas	1998	TV Movie	Herself
François Chalais, la vie comme un roman	1997	TV Movie documentary	Herself
20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years	1997	TV Movie documentary	Actress 'The Girl Can't Help It' (uncredited)
Candid Camera's 50th Anniversary	1996	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Kelsey Grammer Salutes Jack Benny	1995	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Death Scenes 2	1992	Video documentary	Herself (uncredited)
Playboy Playmates: The Early Years	1992	Video documentary	Herself
Hollywood Babylon	1991	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Playboy Video Centerfold: Dutch Twins	1989	Video documentary	Herself
Hollywood Sex Symbols	1988	Video documentary short	Herself
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC	1988	TV Movie	Herself
Hollywood Uncensored	1987	Documentary	Herself
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage	1983	Documentary	Herself (uncredited)
Hollywood's Private Home Movies	1983	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Notre Dame de la Croisette	1981	Documentary	Herself (uncredited)
Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972	1980	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Mondo Hollywood	1967	Documentary	Herself (uncredited)
Hollywood My Home Town	1965	Documentary	Herself
The Love Goddesses	1965	Documentary	Herself
Hollywood Without Make-Up	1963	Documentary	Herself
Lykke og krone	1962	Documentary	Herself (uncredited)
Zwischen Glück und Krone	1959	Documentary	Herself
The James Dean Story	1957	Documentary	Herself (uncredited)
The Ed Sullivan Show	1957	TV Series	Herself

Won awards

Won awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
1960	Star on the Walk of Fame	Walk of Fame	Motion Picture	On 8 February 1960. At 6328 Hollywood Blvd.
1957	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Most Promising Newcomer - Female	The Girl Can't Help It (1956)

Nominated awards

Nominated awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
1959	Golden Laurel	Laurel Awards	Top Female Musical Performance	The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)



Title	Salary
A Guide for the Married Man (1967)	$10,000
Promises..... Promises! (1963)	$150,000 + % of profits
Gli amori di Ercole (1960)	$75,000
The Burglar (1957)	$5,000
The Girl Can't Help It (1956)	$2,500 .00 per week
Female Jungle (1956)	$150
Lux Video Theatre (1950)	$300



#	Quote
1	I love sex... It should be animalistic, it should be sadistic, it should at times be masochistic... There are few rules and moral conventions.
2	Once you were a starlet. Then you're a star. Can you become a starlet again?
3	Nothing risque, nothing gained.
4	If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.
5	Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands.
6	You know which title I like best? I like to be called mother.
7	Sex appeal is a wonderful, warm, womanly, healthy feeling. If you're a woman it's womanly, if you're not it's manly... it comes only from inside... it's an effervescent desire to enjoy life.
8	I have always considered my career self and my personal self as two different and separate people. There's a Jayne Mansfield at home, a wife and devoted mother, and there's Jayne the sex symbol, which is my career. I have always kept them completely apart and separate.
9	I guess a lot of people think that a girl who shows her bosom and wears tight dresses can't be close to God. God has always been close to me. Only He knew what was in my heart.
10	[Upon learning that 20th Century-Fox had lied to her about being considered for the lead in a film about the life of Jean Harlow] I have thousands of letters here, from people all over the world, saying I am the perfect Harlow... even naturally have her mannerisms of caressing my body and arms in that way. But no, they can't see me playing the dramatic side of Harlow's life.
11	I like the California style of living.
12	If you want the best things in life, you have to earn them for yourself.
13	Once you were a starlet. Then you're a star. Can you be a starlet again?
14	My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.
15	I didn't come to Hollywood to be the girl next door. I came to be a movie star.
16	To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.
17	Looks don't regulate a girl's body temperature, at least not this girl's body temperature. Intelligence in a man is the keynote and no girl in her right mind is going to go shopping for a man who's handsome and husky alone.
18	I've got the strangest build. It's big in the hips, small in the waist and I've got these enormous... shoulders.
19	No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject.
20	I'd like ten more babies and ten more chihuahuas and a few Academy Awards. Meanwhile, I enjoy being a sex symbol and making people happy.
21	I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things, but I've never accepted anything I haven't earned.
22	War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.
23	We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables. You are what you eat, you know. When I'm 100, I'll still be doing pin-ups.
24	A lot of happiness can be brought to the mentally distraught by a little understanding.
25	I like being a pin-up girl, there's nothing wrong with it.
26	I don't particularly enjoy publicity, it seems to just follow me around.
27	I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for betterment for me.
28	Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.
29	If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.
30	I don't want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn't say anything too strong, but I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.
31	Stars were made to suffer, and I am a star.
32	To establish yourself as an actress, you have to become well known. A girl just starting out, I would tell her to concentrate on acting, but she doesn't have to go around wearing blankets.
33	[on Bette Davis] Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.



#	Trademark
1	High-pitched squeal
2	Lisp, breathless voice
3	Voluptuous figure
4	Platinum blonde hair



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