The actress attained Broadway success as superstar in 1955. She demonstrated her acting abilities in film, television in addition to theatre. The multi-talented superstar was just the singer and entertainer for the night time clubs. Among the first Playboy playmates, she was also alternative of Marilyn Monroe through the 20th Hundred years to Fox network. This beautiful blonde could attract mass media with her personal lifestyle in addition to publicity stunts. She was also in highlights on her behalf wardrobe malfunctions.The gorgeous and charming Jayne Mansfield may be the later American actress. She was primary Hollywood actress in 1956 and the lead superstar in 1957. she was always her carbon duplicate. In the tenure of her profession, she was awarded with Golden World and Theatre Globe Award. It had been in 1964 she was wedded to Matt Cimber who became her third hubby plus they had one boy together. The even more and extra information about her may be accomplished from her personal in addition to official sites. The few had one girl. She was the mom of five kids from three marriages. The celebrity was wedded to Mickey Hargitay who was simply her hubby and the couple jointly had three kids. The globe lost their skilled and beautiful diva in the automobile accident at the youthful age group of 34 in 29th June 1967. The main one of the very most demanded and sex symbol of 1950s with the measurements of 40-21-35, she’s also possessed a big home in 1957 that was known as Pink Palace that included 40 areas. The actress generally had highest peak on her behalf fame but her performing point was generally at low stage. She hardly ever got the original function as Marilyn Monroe; Though her film wasn’t noticed by many people, she continuing to remain as the utmost recognizable icon. Though she lies lifeless, she actually is yet remembered on her behalf function and devotion. Born on 19th April 1933 as Vera Jayne Palmer, she followed her professional name following the relationship with the Paul Mansfield her initial husband. Her biography can be obtainable in Wiki. The rates of her may also be seen in the various official sites.
| Full Name | Jayne Mansfield |
| Died | June 29, 1967, Slidell, Louisiana, United States |
| Height | 1.66 m |
| Profession | Actor, Pin-up model, Entertainer, Singer, Pianist, Violinist, Showgirl, Playboy Playmate |
| Education | Highland Park High School, Southern Methodist University, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Dallas, University of Texas at Austin |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Matt Cimber, Mickey Hargitay, Paul Mansfield |
| Children | Mariska Hargitay, Jayne Marie Mansfield, Zoltan Hargitay, Tony Cimber, Mickey Hargitay Jr. |
| Parents | Herbert William Palmer, Vera Jeffrey Palmer Peers |
| Awards | Theatre World Award, Golden Globe Award for Best New Star of the Year – Actress |
| Movies | The Girl Can't Help It, Promises! Promises!, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Too Hot to Handle, Kiss Them for Me, Primitive Love, The Wayward Bus, The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, It Happened in Athens, Single Room Furnished, The Burglar, A Guide for the Married Man, The Fat Spy, The Loves of Hercules, The Challenge, The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield, Female Jungle, Pete Kelly's Blues, An Act of Violence, Panic Button, The George Raft Story, The Las Vegas Hillbillys, Homesick for St. Pauli, Illegal, The Passaic Textile Strike |
| TV Shows | Follow the Sun, Down You Go |
| # | 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. |
| # | 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. |
