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Jayne Mansfield was an American actress, Playboy Playmate, and singer. Mansfield was a sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s, and was known for her numerous publicity stunts, her buxom figure, and her personal life.
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entertainment · American actress, Playmate, and singer (1933–1967) · film actor · stage actor · television actor · singer · model · actor · Playboy Playmate · also Jayne Mansfield, Vera Jean Peers, Mansfield
Born 19 April 1933 · Died 29 June 1967 · Q229507
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“We are amused when Miss Mansfield strains to pull in her stomach to fill out her bikini better; but we get angry when career-seeking women, shady ladies, and certain starlets and actresses ... use every opportunity to display their anatomy unasked.”
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“When one studio has a Marilyn Monroe, every other studio is hiring Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren.”
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“share any screen time with the drive-in”
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Released album “Playgirl After Dark”.
Released album “As The Clouds Drift By”.
Released album “The Definitive Jayne Mansfield Collection”.
Released album “Too Hot To Handle - The Very Best Of”.
Snopes.com rated the claim “The car crash that killed Jayne Mansfield also decapitated her.” False.
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Released album “Jayne Mansfield Busts Up Las Vegas”.
Her story and archival footage were part of the TV documentary Hollywood Sex Symbols
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The Jayne Mansfield Story aired on CBS, starring Loni Anderson as Mansfield and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mickey Hargitay
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The jury found that Harrison, the driver of the car, was negligent, that Richard Rambo, the driver of the truck into which Mansfield crashed, was not negligent, and that James McLelland, the driver of the fog-spraying tr
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Two wrongful-death lawsuits were filed on behalf of Mansfield and ex-husband Matt Cimber
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Died 1967-06-29.
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Died in a traffic collision at age 34
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Mansfield was in Biloxi, Mississippi, for an engagement at the Gus Stevens Supper Club
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The independent documentary Spree (alternative title Las Vegas by Night), about the antics of Las Vegas entertainers, was released
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“I like being a pin-up girl. There's nothing wrong with it.”
Film critic Whitney Williams wrote of Mansfield in Variety: "Her personal life out-rivaled any of the roles she played"
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Was cast in Single Room Furnished, directed by her husband Matt Cimber, whom she had married in 1964
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But her show was staged on Fremont Street, away from the Strip where the Tropicana and Dunes were
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Jimi Hendrix played bass and added lead in his session musician days for Mansfield on two songs, "As The Clouds Drift By" and "Suey", released as a 45-rpm single by London Records in 1966
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Performed in another pair of plays: Rabbit Habit at the Latin Quarter nightclub and Champagne Complex, directed by Matt Cimber, at the Pabst Theater
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The magazine repeated the 1955 pictorial
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MGM Records released the novelty album Jayne Mansfield: Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me, in which Mansfield recited Shakespeare's sonnets and poems by Marlowe, Browning, Wordsworth, and others against a background of Tchai
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The Original Sound label released two original songs from the soundtrack of The Las Vegas Hillbillys, "That Makes It" (an answer to The Big Bopper's "Chantilly Lace") on the A-side and "Little Things Mean a Lot" on the B
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Mansfield turned down the role of Ginger Grant on the sitcom Gilligan's Island
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Mansfield obtained a divorce from Hargitay in Juarez, Mexico; Sardelli accompanied Mansfield to Juarez
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Mansfield had an affair with Brazilian-born comedian-singer Nelson Sardelli
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But told reporters, "I'm sure we will make it up
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20th Century Fox Records released the album Jayne Mansfield Busts Up Las Vegas, a recording of her Las Vegas revue The House of Love
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Mansfield had a well-publicized affair with Enrico Bomba, the Italian producer and production manager of her film Panic Button
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Mansfield took a minor role but above-the-title billing in The George Raft Story, released in 1962
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Visited White Hart Lane, England, and watched the Tottenham Hotspur versus Wolverhampton Wanderers FC football match
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Jayne returned to the Tropicana with her show being extended from a four-week run to eight when Betty Hutton's engagement there failed to materialize
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And it was Mansfield's last mainstream film success
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Fox cast Mansfield in two independent gangster films shot in the United Kingdom: The Challenge and Too Hot to Handle, both released in 1960
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(days after her divorce from Paul Mansfield was finalized), Mansfield married Hargitay at the Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, California
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An orchestra was recorded for the 31st Academy Awards ceremony with Jack Benny on first violin, Mansfield on violin, Dick Powell on trumpet, Robert Mitchum on woodwind, Fred Astaire on drums, and Jerry Lewis as conductor
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Won Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress (1957).
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For New Star of the Year, beating Carroll Baker and Natalie Wood with her performance as a "wistful derelict"
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Reprising her role of Rita Marlowe alongside costars Tony Randall and Joan Blondell
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Toured United States Pacific Command areas in Hawaii, Okinawa, Guam, Tokyo, and Korea with Bob Hope for the United Service Organizations for 13 days, appearing as a comedian; in 1961, she toured Newfoundland, Labrado
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Recited from Shakespeare (including a line from Hamlet) and played piano and violin
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Requested additional child support for their first child, Tina, in September 1958
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Awarded Theatre World Award (1956).
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Where he was performing as a member of the chorus line in Mae West's show
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Twentieth Century Fox signed Mansfield to a six-year contract to mold her as a successor to the increasingly difficult Marilyn Monroe, their resident blonde sex symbol
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As well as a Golden Globe Award (New Star of the year, Actress) in 1957
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Awarded Playboy Playmate of the Month (1955).
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Went to New York and appeared in the Broadway production of George Axelrod's comedy Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter
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The Mansfields separated, although Jayne kept Paul's last name
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Though those measurements are in dispute
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Her measurements were 40D-21-36 (102–53–91 cm) on her 5 ft 6 in (1
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Mansfield auditioned at both Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros
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And was associated with it for the rest of her career
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With the players of the Knox Street Theater, headed by Sidney Lumet
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Paul Mansfield was called to the United States Army Reserve for the Korean War
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While in Dallas, Jayne and Paul Mansfield participated in small local-theater productions of The Slaves of Demon Rum and Ten Nights in a Barroom
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Jayne Mansfield juggled motherhood and classes at the University of Texas
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Jayne Mansfield gave birth to her daughter, Jayne Marie Mansfield
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Palmer's widowed mother married sales engineer Harry Lawrence Peers
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Her father died of a heart attack while driving; three-year-old Palmer was in the car at the time
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At Bryn Mawr Hospital in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, the only child of Herbert William Palmer and Vera Jeffrey Palmer
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Born 1933-04-19.
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