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Jayne Mansfield
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Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer on April 19, 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Her parents were well to do, with Mr. Palmer a successful attorney in Phillipburg, New Jersey, where Jayne was beginning her girlhood. Tragedy struck when Jayne was three when her father suddenly died of a heart attack. Three years later, her mother remarried and the family moved south to Dallas, Texas. Up until the move, Jayne had no aspirations of being a star, but with maturity and the fact that she devoured the fan magazines of the day convinced her to try acting. Jayne's plans had to be put on hold when she became pregnant by Paul Mansfield who she married in May of 1950.
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Jayne Mansfield (April 19, 1933 - June 29, 1967) was an American actress and sex symbol. Born Vera Jayne Palmer in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, she moved to Dallas, Texas, then attended the University of Texas. In 1954 she moved to Los Angeles, California, and attended UCLA, taking drama classes. She had a bit part in that year in the movie Female Jungle, but the small role the following year in Pete Kelly's Blues brought her attention.
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Jayne Mansfield divorced her first husband, Paul Mansfield, in 1958, just five days before her second marriage, to bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay. Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay had three children - Miklós, Zoltan, and Mariska - before their 1963 divorce. During their marriage, Mansfield and Hargitay costarred in plays including Bus Stop and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. In 1964, Jayne Mansfield married for a third time, to Italian director Matt Cimber. The couple had a son, Tony, in 1965, but separated soon after.
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Jayne Mansfield was arguably the most exhibitionistic of all the movie glamour girls. In her publicity photographs Jayne revealed more of her body than any other star and gave the impression that she really wanted to show her breasts completely. Shortly after Jayne's horrific death Diana Dors, a frequently mischievous and occasionally malicious raconteur who knew Jayne quite well, said that she thought eventually Jayne would have become a stripper as her career declined. More charitable judgements came from other actresses. In "Second Act" Joan Collins tells how startled she was by Jayne's lack of inhibition while Anita Ekberg, describing Jayne as a friend, said she was far more intelligent than anyone realised and was in fact quite small. Jayne was certainly not small in every way.
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Ex- gangster Fats Murdock (Edmond O'Brien) hires washed-up publicist Tom Miller (Tom Ewell) to turn the attractive Jerri Jordan (Jayne Mansfield) into a singing sensation, so that she'll be a "somebody" that a bigshot like Murdock can marry. Although he pines for his ex-flame Julie London (Julie London), Tom takes Jerri around the various Manhattan Rock'n Roll nightclubs (?) where every manager wants to sign her. Jerri really only wants to be a housewife, and Tom rejoices when it turns out that she can't sing a note: Perhaps Murdock will relent and allow Tom and Jerri to become an item. Jerri becomes a big hit by merely providing a squeal sound effect to Murdock's song Rock around the Rock Pile, performed by bandleader Ray Anthony. Meanwhile, Murdock faces a new challenge when he tries to take over the juke box racket run by his old gangster nemesis, Wheeler (John Emery).
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Jayne Mansfield was born on 19 April 1933 in Pennsylvania, but lived in New Jersey with her parents, Herbert and Vera, during her early years. Mansfield showed an interest in performing very early on, often singing to an audience of stuffed animals. When she was three years old, her father died of a heart attack. She claimed to have fond memories of him, though she was so young at the time of his death. Three years later, Vera remarried and the family moved to Dallas, Texas.
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