Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jane Palmer ; 19 April 1933 - June 29, 1967) is an American film, theater, and television actress. She is also a nightclub entertainer, singer, and one of Playboy's early Playmates. He was a major sex symbol of Hollywood during the 1950s and early 1960s, while under contract at 20th Century Fox. He is also known for his published private life and publicity acts, such as wardrobe malfunctions.
Although Mansfield's film career was short-lived, he had some box-office successes and won the World Theater and Golden Globe Awards. He enjoyed success in the role of fictitious actress Rita Marlowe, both in 1955-1956 versions of Broadway and Hollywood film version of 1957 Will Success Spoiling Rock Hunter? Other major movie shows are on The Girl Can not Help It (1956), The Born Bus (1957), and Too Hot to Handle 1960). In the movie sexploitation Promise! Promise! (1963), she became the first big American actress to have a starring role naked in a Hollywood movie.
Mansfield took his professional name from his first husband, PR professional, Paul Mansfield. She got married and divorced three times and had five children. Mansfield is allegedly involved with many people, including Robert and John F. Kennedy, his lawyer Samuel S. Brody, and Las Vegas entertainer Nelson Sardelli. On June 29, 1967, he died in a car crash in New Orleans at the age of 34 years.
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Early life and education
Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jane Palmer on April 19, 1933, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. The "y" in Jayne came around 1940. He was the only child of Herbert William Palmer (1904-1936), of German and English descent, and Vera Jeffrey Palmer (1903-2000), of English origin. He inherited more than $ 90,000 from his maternal grandfather Thomas ($ 763,000 in 2017 dollars) and over $ 36,000 from his maternal grandmother, Beatrice Mary Palmer, in 1958 ($ 305,000 in dollars 2017).
He spent his childhood in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, where his father was a lawyer who trained with future New Jersey governor Robert B. Meyner. In 1936, his father died of a heart attack. In 1939, her mother married a sales engineer Harry Lawrence Peers, and her family moved to Dallas, Texas, where she was known as Vera Jayne Peers.
As a child he wanted to be a Hollywood star like Shirley Temple. At the age of 12, he attended ballroom dance courses. He graduated from Highland Park High School in 1950. While in high school, Palmer took violin lessons, piano, and violin. He also studied Spanish and German. He consistently receives values ​​in a high B included in mathematics.
At the age of 17, he married Paul Mansfield on May 6, 1950. Their daughter, Jayne Marie Mansfield, was born six months later on November 8, 1950. Jayne and her husband enrolled at Southern Methodist University to study acting. In 1951, Jayne moved to Los Angeles and attended the summer semester at UCLA. He entered the Miss California contest but was forced to resign after Paul found out. He then moved to Austin, Texas, with her husband, and studied drama at the University of Texas at Austin. There he worked as a nude art model, selling door to door books, and working as a receptionist in a dance studio. He also joined Curtain Club, a popular campus theater community that was among the members of lyricist Tom Jones, composer Harvey Schmidt, and actors Rip Torn and Pat Hingle. He then spent a year at Camp Gordon, Georgia (US Army training facility) when Paul Mansfield served in the United States Army Reserve in the Korean War.
In 1953, he moved back to Dallas, and for several months was a student of actor Baruch Lumet, father of director Sidney Lumet and founder of the Dallas Performing Arts Institute. Lumet gives his private lessons and calls Mansfield and Rip Torn "his children". Lumet will eventually help Jayne get her first screen test at Paramount in April 1954.
Paul, Jayne and Jayne Marie moved to Los Angeles in 1954. Jayne worked in various side jobs including: selling popcorn at Stanley Warner Theater, teaching dance, selling candy in theaters, part-time modeling at Blue Book Model Agency, and working as a photographer at Esther Williams' Trails Restaurant.
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Initial career
While attending The University of Texas at Austin, Mansfield won several beauty contests, including Miss Photoflash, Miss Magnesium Lamp, and Miss Fire Prevention Week. Jayne usually says that the only title she rejected was Miss Roquefort Cheese, because she believed it was "... just does not sound right". Jayne would later also reject the "Miss Prime Rib" in 1957. In 1952, while in Dallas, she and Paul Mansfield participated in the small local theatrical productions of The Slaves of Demon Rum and Ten Nights in a Barroom , and What Happens in Camp Gordon, Georgia. After he left for military service, he made his first stage appearance in the production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman on October 22, 1953, with the players at the Knox Street Theater, led by Lumet. While at UCLA, he entered the Miss California contest (hiding his marital status), and won the local round before withdrawing.
Early in his career, some advertisers thought his main breasts were problematic, which caused him to lose his first professional job - an advertisement for General Electric describing a young woman in a casual swimsuit around the pool. Emmeline Snively, head of the Blue Book Model Agency, has sent her to photographer Gene Lester, which led to her short assignment in General Electric's commercial. In 1954, he auditioned at Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros.. At Paramount, Jayne did a sketch he did with Lumet from Joan of Arc for casting director Milton Lewis. Lewis told him that he was wasting "his obvious talent" and told him to come back a week later to do the piano scene from The Seven Year Itch . Jayne failed to impress but she had to go blonde. He then did a piano scene for Warner Brothers, but, again, failed to impress. She got her first acting job at Lux Video Theater, a series on CBS in the episode "An Angel Went AWOL", aired on October 21, 1954). In it, he sits on the piano and sends out a few lines of dialogue for $ 300 ($ 3,000 in dollars 2017).
In 1953, editor Hugh Hefner began publishing Playboy and magazines became popular because of the early Playmate, such as Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Bettie Page, and Anita Ekberg. In February 1955, Mansfield was Playmate of the Month, and appeared in the magazine several times. His performance in February enhanced the magazine's circulation and helped launch Mansfield's career. Shortly after, she posed for the Playboy calendar, covering her breasts with her hands. Playboy featured Mansfield every February from 1955 to 1958, and again in 1960.
In August 1956, Paul Mansfield sought the custody of his daughter, alleging that Jayne was an unworthy mother because she appeared nude in Playboy. In 1964, the magazine repeated the depiction of 1955. Playboy reprinted the photo of the pictorial problem, with titles such as December 1965 "The Playboy Sex Star Portfolio," and "Centerfolds of the Century "January 2000.
Movie careers
Early career (1954-1955)
The first part of Mansfield's film was a supporting role in Jungle's , a low-budget drama completed in ten days. His portion was filmed for several days, and he was paid $ 150 ($ 1,000 in dollars 2017). It was unofficially released in early 1955. In February 1955, James Byron, his manager and publicist, negotiated a seven-year deal with Warner Brothers, who was attracted by his publicity antics. The contract initially paid $ 250 per week ($ 2,000 in 2017 dollars) and landed two films - one with an insignificant role, and the other has not been released for two years. He proposed a separation from Paul Mansfield in January. Mansfield was given small parts in Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), starring Jack Webb, and Hell in Frisco Bay (1955), starring Alan Ladd. He acted in another movie for Warner Brothers - another small but significant role in Edward G. Robinson's presence in the Illegal court-drama room (1955).
His agent, William Shiffrin, hired him to play the fictional movie of Rita Marlowe star in Broadway drama Will Will Success Destroy Rock Hunter? with Orson Bean and Walter Matthau. She received that part while working with producer Louis W. Kellman Film star (1955-1958)
Twentieth Century-Fox signed Jayne for a six-year contract on May 3, 1956, in their New York office to form him as Marilyn Monroe's increasingly difficult successor, they are blondes, who recently completed a very difficult Bus Stop then. Mansfield still under contract with Broadway and continue playing Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? on stage until 15 September 1956.
He performed his role as the lead actor for Jerri Jordan's first film in Frank Tashlin's The Girl Can not Help It (1956). Originally titled Do-Re-Mi , it featured famous figures of Rock-n-Roll artists and R & amp; B including Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Domino Fats, The Platters, and Little Richard. Released in December 1956, The Girl Can not Help It became one of the biggest successes of the year, both critically and financially, resulting in more than three years' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes previous. Soon after, Fox began promoting Mansfield as "Marilyn Monroe king-sized," attempting to force Monroe to return to the studio and complete his contract. Mansfield has become one of the main sex actresses of 20th Century Fox.
Mansfield subsequently played a dramatic role in 1957 The Wayward Bus , the adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel of the same name. With this film, he tries to stay away from the image of his "blonde prostitute" and make himself a serious actress. The film enjoys moderate box office success, and Mansfield won the Golden Globe in 1957 for the New Star of the Year, beating Carroll Baker and Natalie Wood for her performance as a "sad neglect". It "generally acknowledges her best acting," according to The New York Times, in an anxious career hampered by her flamboyant image, distinctive sound ("co-soft-spoken with screams"), exciting figures, and ranges acting is limited.
Tashlin toss Mansfield in a movie version of Broadway show Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? in 1957 repeated his role Rita Marlowe alongside co-stars Tony Randall and Joan Blondell. Fox launched their new blonde bombs with a North American tour and a sixteen day tour, sixteen European countries for the studio. She attended the premiere of the film (released as "Oh! For a Man in England) in London, and met Queen Elizabeth II as part of the tour.
The role of Mansfield's fourth actor in a Hollywood movie is at Kiss Them for Me (1957), where he received a prominent bill with Cary Grant. However, in the movie itself he is little more than just a comic relief; Grant's character prefers the soft, soft hairstyle played by fashion model Suzy Parker. The film is described as "vapid" and "ill-advis," a critical failure and a box office, and marks one of the last attempts by 20th Century-Fox to publish Mansfield.
The persistent publicity around his physical appearance failed to maintain his career. Fox gave him a leading role in the presence of Kenneth More in the Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958), a western comedy filmed on site in England. In the movie Mansfield sang three songs, but the studio was dubbed by singer Connie Francis. Fox released the film in the United States in 1959; it was the success of Mansfield's last mainstream film. Columbia Pictures offered him the opposite sections of James Stewart and Jack Lemmon in the romantic comedy Bell, Book and Candle (1958), but he had to reject her because she was pregnant. After that, Fox tries to throw Mansfield against Paul Newman in Rally the Flag, Boys! (1958), his first fateful attempt in comedy.
Career down (1959-1963)
With the declining demand for big blonde bombs, and the increasing negative reaction to its excessive publicity, Mansfield became the box office that had existed since the early 1960s but remained a popular celebrity, continuing to attract many people outside America. Country by way of a lucrative and successful nightclub action.
Despite his publicity and popularity, Mansfield did not have the role of quality films after 1959. He also could not fulfill a third of his contract with Fox because of repeated pregnancies. Fox stopped staring at him as a major Hollywood star, and began lending it to foreign production until the end of his contract in 1962. He first loaned it to a British studio and then to an Italian studio for a series of low-budget films, many of them unclear, and some were considered missing.
In 1959, Fox threw it in two independent gangster films taken in the UK: The Challenge and Too Hot to Handle . Both films have low budgets, and their American release is pending. Too Hot to Handle was not released in the United States until 1961 as Playgirl After Dark . The Challenge was released in 1963 with It Takes a Thief . In the United States, the censors objected to the scene at Too Hot to Handle where Mansfield, wearing a silver net with a sequin painted over his nipple, appeared almost naked.
When he returned to Hollywood in the mid-1960s, 20th Century-Fox threw it at It Happened in Athens (1962). He received the first bill above the title, but only appeared as a supporting role. It Happened in Athens starring Trax Colton, a handsome newcomer and an unknown Fox trying to shape the heart. The Olympic-based film was shot in Greece in the fall of 1960, but was not released until June 1962. It was a box office failure, and 20th Century-Fox dropped Mansfield's contract.
In 1961, Mansfield signed for over-titled billing, a small role in The George Raft Story . Starring Ray Danton as Raft, the film features Mansfield in a small part as a glamorous movie star. Soon after the release of The George Raft Story , Mansfield returned to European films. Over the next few years he appears mainly in low-budget foreign films such as Heimweh nach St. (1964, Italy), Panic Button (1964, Italy), and Einer frisst den anderen (1964, Germany).
In 1963, Tommy Noonan persuaded Mansfield to become the first major American actress to appear naked in the lead role in the movie Promise! Promise! Playboy publishes nude photos of Mansfield on set in the June 1963 edition, which resulted in an alleged obscenity of Hugh Hefner in a Chicago City court. Appointments! Promise! is banned in Cleveland, Ohio, but enjoys box-office success elsewhere. As a result of the film's success, Mansfield landed on the list of Top 10 box-office attractions for that year.
Last year (1964-1967)
Immediately after his success at Promise! Promise! Mansfield was chosen from many other actresses to replace Marilyn Monroe who recently died at Kiss Me, Stupid, a 1964 romantic comedy that will play Dean Martin. She rejected the role because of her pregnancy with daughter Mariska Hargitay, and was replaced by Kim Novak. That same year, Mansfield appeared in his book, pinup book for Jayne Mansfield for President: White House or Bust, promoted on billboards; David Attie, a commercial and fine art photographer, took the photographs. In 1966, Mansfield was thrown in Single Room Furnished , directed by Matt Cimber's husband. The film demands Mansfield to portray three different characters, and becomes the main actor, a dramatic role in several years. It was released briefly in 1966, but did not enjoy its full release until 1968, almost a year after his death.
After the Single Room Furnished was wrapped, Mansfield was thrown opposite Mamie Van Doren and Ferlin Husky at The Las Vegas Hillbillys (1966), a low-budget comedy from Woolner Brothers. It was the country's first film and western movie, and he promoted it through a 29-day tour of major US cities, accompanied by Ferlin Husky, Don Bowman, and other country musicians. Before filming begins, Mansfield says he will not "divide the screen time with a drive-in answer to Marilyn Monroe," which means Van Doren. Although their characters share one scene, Mansfield and Van Doren filmed their part at different times; they are then edited together.
The Mansfield wardrobe relies on the 1960s shapeless style to hide its weight after the birth of the fifth child. Despite his career setbacks, he remained a highly visible celebrity during the early 1960s, through publicity publicity and stage performances. In early 1967, Mansfield filmed his final role: cameo in Career stage
Between 1951 and 1953 he acted in The Slaves of Demon Rum <10> in the Barroom , Macbeth , and What Happened me. His appearance in the production of October 1953 Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman drew Paramount Pictures to audition him. Lumet trained him to audition. In 1955, he went to New York and appeared in the production of Broadway comedy George Axelrod Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? , also featuring Orson Bean and Walter Matthau. It was his first big stage performance, garnering critical attention - though not always positive - and public popularity. She starred as Rita Marlowe (Hollywood star, wild blonde ÃÆ' la Monroe) in Hollywood spoofing music in general and Marilyn Monroe in particular. The wardrobe, the bath towel, causes a sensation. He received the Theater World Award (Promising Personality) for his performance in 1956, as well as the Golden Globe Award (New Star of the year, Actress) in 1957. Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times described the "Commendable Rejection" from his lowly-clad Rita Marlowe in the drama as "platinum platinum siren with Marilyn Monroe's wavy contours". He performed at about 450 performances between 1955 and 1956. At that time, he was considered one of the greatest Broadway-to-Hollywood success stories.
In 1964, he appeared on the production stage of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at the Carousel Theater and Bus Stop in Yonkers Playhouse. Both starred Mickey Hargitay and reviewed well. Mansfield toured small cities in the US alternating between two plays. In 1965, he appeared in another drama - Night Club
In February 1958, Tropicana Las Vegas relaunched the Mansfield striptease The Tropicana Holiday (produced by Monte Proser, starring Mickey Hargitay) under a four-week contract extended to eight. The opening night garnered $ 20,000 for the March of Dimes ($ 170,000 in 2017 dollars.) He received $ 25,000 per week for his performance as a Trixie Divoon at the event ($ 212,000 in 2017 dollars), while his contract with 20th Century Fox paid him $ 2,500 per week ( $ 21,000 in 2017. He had a multimillion-dollar policy with Lloyd's of London if Hargitay dropped him as he circled for the show. In 1959, Jayne returned to the Tropicana and earned $ 30,000 per week, with his show extended twice In December 1960 , The Dunes hotel and casino launched the revue of Mansfield The House of Love (produced by Jack Cole, starring Hargitay). He received a salary of $ 35,000 a week ($ 290,000 in 2017 dollars) - the highest in his career.
His wardrobe for the show at Tropicana and Dunes featured a gold mesh dress with sequins to cover his nipples and pubic area. The controversial thin dress is referred to as "Jayne Mansfield and some sequins". In early 1963, he appeared in his first club engagement outside Las Vegas, at the Plantation Society in Greensboro, North Carolina, earning $ 23,000 a week ($ 184,000 in 2017 dollars), and then at Iroquois Gardens in Louisville, Kentucky. He returned to Las Vegas in 1966, but his show was staged on Fremont Street, away from the Strip where the Tropicana and Dunes are. Her last nightclub act was in the Latin Quarter in New York in 1966, also repeated in Tropicana. This is a modified version of the Tropicana show, and runs for six weeks with a fair success.
Her nightclub career is an inspiration for movies, documentaries, and music albums. 20th Century Fox Records recorded "The House of Love" for an album titled "Jayne Mansfield Busts Up Las Vegas" in 1962. She played the role of Burlesque entertainer Midnight Franklin in Too Hot to Handle (1960) and Las Vegas show the girl Tawni Downs at The Las Vegas Hillbillys (1966). In 1967, an independent documentary film Spree (Alternate title Las Vegas by Night ) about the fun of Las Vegas entertainers was released. The film, which is described as part of the travel story of Vic Damone and Juliet Prowse, features Mansfield, Hargitay, Constance Moore, and Clara Ward as guest stars. Mansfield strip and sing "Promise Her Anything" from the movie Promise! Promise! A court order is prohibited from using one guest star to promote the movie.
In his next career, he is more busy onstage, performing and performing with his night club action, club engagement, and touring his performances. In 1960, he made a personal appearance for everything from supermarket promotions to drug store opening, for $ 10,000 per appearance ($ 83,000 in 2017 dollars).
Television career
Mansfield played his first major role on television in 1956 at NBC's
She appeared on numerous variety shows including The Jack Benny Program (where she plays violin), The Steve Allen Show and The Jackie Gleason Show (< during the mid-1960s, when the show was the second highest-rated program in the US). In November 1957, in a special episode of NBC's The Perry Como Show ("Vacation in Las Vegas"), one of his nightclub actions was shown, something quite embarrassing to the audience according to the broadcaster. She was a guest on three episodes of the The Bob Hope Show tour team. In 1957, he toured the United States Pacific Command area in Hawaii, Okinawa, Guam, Tokyo and Korea with Bob Hope for the United Service Organizations for 13 days emerging as a comedian; and in 1961, toured Newfoundland, Labrador, and Baffin Island in Canada to celebrate Christmas. His talk show career includes a large number of appearances he values ​​for publicity. One of her most prominent appearances on variety shows was at The Ed Sullivan Show (Season 10, Episode 35, May 26, 1957) right after her success with Rock Hunter, where she playing the fiddle with a six-man band backup band. After the show, he exclaimed, "Now I'm really national, Momma and Dallas see Ed Sullivan's show!"
In 1958, he earned $ 20,000 per episode for a television show ($ 170,000 in dollars 2017). In 1964, Mansfield rejected Ginger Grant's role on the rising TV sitcom Gilligan's Island . Although his acting role became marginalized, Mansfield rejected that part because it symbolized the stereotype he wished to avoid. The final part goes to Tina Louise. A widespread rumor that Mansfield had an accidental dress that bounced off the 1957 Academy Awards, found unfounded by Academy researchers. Ten days before his death, he reads to the Virgin, Makes Much Time , a poem by Robert Herrick about an early death in The Joey Bishop Show - his last television appearance.
Until the mid-1980s, Mansfield remained one of the biggest television shows. In 1980, The Jayne Mansfield Story was aired on CBS starring Loni Anderson in the title role and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mickey Hargitay. It was nominated for three Emmy Awards. A E Networks TV series Biography featured it in an episode titled Jayne Mansfield: Blonde Ambition . The TV series won an Emmy Award in the incredible category of non-fiction TV series in 2001. A & amp; E again featured his life in other TV series, Dangerous Curves , in 1999. In 1988, his story and archival recordings were part of the Hollywood Sex Symbols TV documentary.
Music career
Mansfield has classic training in piano and violin. She sings on the movie soundtrack, on stage for her theater and nightclub performances, and releases singles and albums. After his death, Mansfield became the inspiration for punk-rock musicians.
Soundtracks
Mansfield sings in English and German for a number of his films, including Girls Can not Help It ("Ev'rytime" and "Rock Around the Rock Pile"), Illegal (" Too Awesome for Words "), Las Vegas Hillbillys (" It Makes It "), Too Hot to Handle (" Too Hot To Handle "," You Are Made To Me "," Monsoon "and" Midnight "), Homesick for St. Pauli ("Wo Ist Der Man" and "Snicksnack Snuckelchen"), The Challenge of Love, Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (" Strolling Down The Lane With Billy "and" If San Francisco Hills Can Only Speak "), and Promise! Promise! ("I'm in Love", alternate title "Lullaby of Love").
Live show
In 1958, an orchestra was recorded for the 31st Academy Awards ceremony with Jack Benny on the first violin, Mansfield on violin, Dick Powell in trumpet, Robert Mitchum in woodwind, Fred Astaire on drums and Jerry Lewis as conductor; However, the show was canceled. She sang "Too Marvelous for Words" for The Jack Benny Program ("Jack Takes the Boat to Hawaii"; Episode 9, Season 14, November 26, 1963). Her club performances regularly feature songs such as Call Me, A Little Brains, A Little Talent ("This Queen has her ace in all the right places"), > Plain Jane , Besame Mucho , and the famous song by Marilyn Monroe - Diamonds Are a Girl's Friend Friend .
Albums
In 1962, 20th Century Fox Records released the album Jayne Mansfield Busts Up Las Vegas , a recording of the Las Vegas revue The House of Love . In 1964 MGM Records released a new album called Jayne Mansfield: Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & amp; Me , where Mansfield recites Shakespeare sonnets and poetry by Marlowe, Browning, Wordsworth, and others with Tchaikovsky background music. The album cover describes a bouffant-dominated Mansfield with pursed lips and breasts barely covered by a feather stole, posing among the Tchaikovsky and Shakespeare statues. The New York Times describes this album as a "30 strange poems with hoarseness, urban, baby" readings. The reviewer went on to comment that "Miss Mansfield is a woman with a clear charm, but reading poetry is not one of them."
Singles
In 1965, Jimi Hendrix played bass and added leads in musician sessions to Mansfield on two tracks - "As The Clouds Drift By" and "Suey" - released as a 45-rpm single by London Records in 1966. Ed Chalpin, record producer , claiming that Mansfield played all instruments on singles. According to Hendrix historian Steven Roby ( Black Gold: The Missing File From Jimi Hendrix , Billboard Books), this collaboration happens because they share the same manager. Wo ist der Mann sung in German and released by Polydor Records in Austria was requested shortly after it was released in August 1963. The A-Side featured the song Hans Last Scnicksnack-Snuckelchen . The Original Sound label released two original songs from the soundtrack of The Las Vegas Hillbillys - That Makes It (answer for The Big Bopper's "Chantilly Lace") on A beside, and < i> Little Things Means Much on the B-side - in 1964.
Personal life
In 1967, film critic and film exploitist Whitney Williams wrote of Mansfield in Variety: "his personal life defeats whatever role he plays." She got married and divorced three times and had five children. Mansfield is allegedly involved with many men, including Claude Terrail (owner of Paris Tour d'Argent restaurant), Robert F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Brazilian billionaire Jorge Guinle, lawyer Samuel S. Brody, Las Vegas entertainer Nelson Sardelli, and producer Enrico Bomba. He met John F. Kennedy through his lawyer Peter Lawford in Palm Springs, California, in 1960, before he had an affair with Marilyn Monroe, but his alleged affair did not last long. Mansfield and Sam Brody, his lawyer and suspected lover at the time, were killed in a car accident.
She has a daughter with her first husband, professional PR, Paul Mansfield. She is the mother of three children from her second marriage to actor/bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay. She also has a son with her husband's husband, film director Matt Cimber.
First marriage
Jayne met Paul Mansfield at a party on Christmas Eve in 1949; they were both popular students at Highland Park High School in Dallas. On May 6, 1950, they married in Fort Worth, Texas. At the time of their marriage, Jayne was 17 and three months pregnant; Paul is 20. While most major biographies write the date on May 6, some sources say the marriage was on May 10, 1950. According to biographer Raymond Strait, he had a "secret marriage" earlier on January 28, after which he conceived it. The first child. On November 8, 1950, Mansfield gave birth to his daughter, Jayne Marie Mansfield. Some sources quote Paul Mansfield as the father of his son, others allege that pregnancy is the result of date rape.
Paul Mansfield hopes the birth of their child will break his interest to act. When she did not, she agreed to move to Los Angeles in late 1954 to help her career further. In 1952, he transformed into a mother and a class at the University of Texas. Beginning in 1952, Paul was summoned to the United States Army Reserve for the Korean War. When he served in the army, he spent a year at Camp Gordon, Georgia. His life became easier with Paul's allotment of soldiers. Returning from the Korean War in 1954, he worked in a small newspaper in East Los Angeles, California, and lived in a small apartment in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, with Jayne and his pet - Great Dane, three cats named Sabina, Romulus , and Ophelia, two chihuahua, a pink poodle, and a rabbit. While in California, he left Jayne Marie with maternal grandparents and spent the summer semester at UCLA.
After a series of marriage lines around Jayne's ambitions, disloyalty, and animals, they decided to dissolve the marriage. That's a long process. In February 1955, Jayne proposed separate treatments, and in August 1956, Paul applied custody of their daughter, Jayne Marie. Jayne filed for divorce in California in 1956, Paul filed for divorce in 1957 in Texas citing mental cruelty, and they received their divorce papers on January 8, 1958. After the divorce, he decided to keep "Mansfield" as his professional name. Paul Mansfield remarried, settled in the public relations business and moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, but failed to win custody of Jayne Marie or forbade her to travel abroad with her mother.
Two weeks before her mother's death in 1967, 16-year-old Jayne Marie accused Sam Brody, her mother's girlfriend at the time, beating her. The girl's statement to the officer from the Los Angeles Police Department the following day implicated her mother in encouraging abuse, and a few days later a child court judge gave Jayne Marie's parenting while to Uncle Paul, William W. Pigue and his wife, Mary. After her 18th birthday, Jayne Marie complains that she has not received a legacy from the land of Mansfield or heard from her father since her mother's death.
Second marriage
Mansfield met his second husband, Mickey Hargitay, at the Latin Quarter nightclub in New York City on May 13, 1956, where he appeared as a choral line member at the Mae West show. Hargitay is an actor and bodybuilder who has won the competition. Universe in 1955. Mansfield soon fell in love with him, which resulted in an argument with the West. On the next line, Mr. California, Chuck Krauser, beat Hargitay and was arrested and released with a $ 300 bond ($ 3,000 in 2017 dollars).
After Mansfield returned from his 40-day European tour, Hargitay proposed to him on November 6, 1957, with a $ 5,000 diamond rings ($ 218,000 in 2017). On January 13, 1958, (a few days after his divorce from Paul was completed), Mansfield married Hargitay in the Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. The unique glass chapel is open to the public and makes it easy for you to watch the wedding. Mansfield wore a sensational pink wedding dress, made of sequins with 30-yd pink tulle folds (designed by the 20th-century Fox designer), and at the reception he drank a pink champagne Hargitay.
Hargitay made his first film appearance with Mansfield in a small section on Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? . The couple became a popular publicity and performance team that toured extensively on stage shows, in which the Leopard-spot Mansfield bikini became a topic of discussion and newspaper coverage. In the spotlight, Hargitay threw it at his waist and twisted it in a wide circle as his show made headlines. On the screen, he is the male lead of Mansfield in the Italian venture - The Loves of Hercules and L'Amore Primitivo, and the main supporting character in Promise! Promise! On the stage, she is the male lead on The Tropicana Holiday, Love House , French Dressing , and other nightclubs act.
They are also popular for their personal performances on television shows such as Bob Hope Christmas Specials. Mansfield and Hargitay have a number of business ownership, including Hargitay Exercise Equipment Company, Jayne Mansfield Productions, and Eastland Savings and Loan. He co-wrote the autobiography of Jayne Mansfield's Wild, Wild World with Hargitay. The book also contains 32 black-and-white photographic pages of films printed on glossy paper.
On November 23, 1966, Mansfield's son Zoltan made the news when a lion named Sammy attacked him and bit his neck as he and his mother visited the US Jungleland playground in Thousand Oaks, California. He suffered severe head trauma, underwent three operations at the Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, California, including six-hour brain surgery, and contracted meningitis. He recovered, and Mansfield's lawyer, Sam Brody sued the amusement park on behalf of the family for $ 1.6 million ($ 11,743,000 in 2017 dollars). Negative publicity led to the closure of the theme park.
In 1962, he had a well-publicized relationship with Enrico Bomba, producer and film production manager in Italy. Panic Button . Hargitay accused Bomba of sabotaging their marriage. In 1963, he had a well-publicized relationship with singer Nelson Sardelli, whom he said he planned to marry when his divorce from Mickey Hargitay was completed. The couple divorced in Juarez, Mexico, in May 1963, where Nelson Sardelli accompanied Mansfield in his legal preparations. He previously filed for divorce on May 4, 1962, but told reporters "I'm sure we'll make up for it." During the fierce divorce process, the actress sought to force a more favorable financial settlement by accusing Hargitay of kidnapping one of her children.
Between marriage
After their divorce, Mansfield finds her pregnant. Being an unmarried mother would endanger her career, Mansfield and Hargitay announced that they were still married. Mariska Hargitay was born January 23, 1964, after the actual divorce, but before California decided it was legal. Mariska later became an actress, best known for her role as Olivia Benson at Law & amp; Order: Special Victim Unit . After his birth, Mansfield sued for Juarez's legal divorce and won. The divorce was recognized in the United States on August 26, 1964. The court decision in June 1967 led to the guardians of Hargitay Mickey, Zoltan and Mariska, although they continued to live with their mothers. She married the flight attendant Ellen Siano in 1968. She accompanied her to New Orleans when she went to pick up her three children after Mansfield's death. Shortly after his funeral, Hargitay sued his ex-wife's land of more than $ 275,000 ($ 2.02 million in 2017 dollars) to support the children he and his third (and last) wife Ellen Siano would raise, but lost the lawsuit. Toward the end of his life, and some time after his divorce from Hargitay, Mansfield told his ex-husband, on a television talk show that he was sorry for all the problems he had given him.
Third marriage
Mansfield was involved with Matt Cimber (aka Matteo Ottaviano, n © © Thomas Vitale Ottaviano), an Italian-born film director, when he directed it in the production of the Bus Stop stage in Yonkers, New York, Hargitay. She married him on September 24, 1964, at Mulegà © ©, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The couple split up on July 11, 1965, and filed a divorce on July 20, 1966. Cimber took over managing his career during their marriage, and guided him through a series of increasingly unflattering projects such as Promise, Promise and W Vegas Hillbillys . Mansfield's marriage to Cimber began to collapse after his alcohol addiction, his open affair, and his disclosure to Cimber that he was only happy with his former lover, Nelson Sardelli. Working on a Mansfield movie, Single Room Furnished directed by Cimber (1966), is suspended.
By then, Mansfield had turned into alcoholism, drunken fights, and performing at cheap burlesque shows. In July 1966, he began living with his lawyer, Sam Brody, who often fought with him and treated his eldest daughter, Jayne Marie. Sam's wife, Beverly Brody, filed for divorce by calling Mansfield "another 41 woman" in Sam's life. The couple had one son, Antonio Raphael Ottaviano (a.k.a. Tony Cimber, born October 18, 1965). Cimber, and designer of his third wife Christy Hilliard Hanak, whom he married on December 2, 1967, raises Tony, Mansfield's youngest son. Cimber then works as a broadcaster to Marry... with Kids and producers for Beautiful Women from Wrestling .
Images
Mansfield is a big Hollywood sex symbol from the 1950s and early 1960s and the 20th Century Fox alternative to Marilyn Monroe. He came to be known as the "Monroe Man Worker". She is one of Hollywood's original blonde bombs, and, although many people have never seen the movie, Mansfield remains one of the most recognizable iconic celebrity cultures of the 1950s.
According to Hollywood historian and biographer James Parish, the Mansfield sand clock figure (he claimed dimensions 40-21-35), unique sashaying trips, breathing baby chats, and costumes of divisions made a lasting impact on popular culture. A Hollywood historian, Andrew Nelson, said that he was seen as the best, brave and educated B-class actress from 1955 to early 1960s.
References are often made to a very high IQ Mansfield, which he claimed 163. In addition to English, he spoke in four other languages. He studied French, Spanish and German in high school, and in 1963 he studied Italian. Known as Hollywood's "stupid blonde", he later complained that the public did not care about his brain saying: "They're more interested in 40-21-35."
Blonde
The natural Brunette, Mansfield has gray hair, and platinum blonde when he moved to Los Angeles, and became one of the earliest "blonde bombs", along with Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, and Mamie Van Doren. In 1958, he also had his eyebrows dyed platinum. Following Jean Harlow (who started the trend with his movie Bombshell), Monroe, Mansfield, Van Doren, and Diana Dors helped define stereotypes characterized by a combination of curvaceous body, brightly colored hair, and a lack of intelligence. The English tabloid review shows it to be one of the most persistent blond stereotypes - along with blond chest , and blonde dear .
Mansfield, Monroe and Barbara Windsor have been described as a representation of the historical point of sexuality in a popular and comedic culture. The academics also added Anita Ekberg and Bettie Page to a list of excessive female sexuality catalyst trends, along with Mansfield and Monroe. M. Thomas Inge describes Mansfield, Monroe and Jane Russell as the personification of a mischievous girl in popular culture. Judy Holliday and Goldie Hawn have also been identified to have defined the stereotype of "stupid blondes," characterized by a combination of their open sexuality, and a clear inability to understand everyday life. Instead of the asexual and virgin girls of previous films, pneumatic blond hair bombs took over the screen in the 1950s to become a cult that has consistently been imitated since that era. The social historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg described the 1950s as "an era distinguished by its worship of full-breasted women" and links the paradigm shift to Mansfield and Monroe. Patricia Vettel-Becker made the observation more specific by linking the phenomenon with Playboy and the appearance of Mansfield and Monroe in the magazine.
Rivalry
Throughout his career, Mansfield was compared to the media with the ruling sex symbol of that period, Marilyn Monroe. 20th Century Fox organizes itself, as well as Sheree North, to replace Monroe, their resident "blonde bomb," while Universal Pictures launches Van Doren as their successor. The studio launched Mansfield with a 40-day European and European tour from September 25 to November 6, 1957. He adopted Monroe's vocal behavior instead of the original hoarse voice and Texas speech, performed in two dramas based on Marilyn Monroe vehiclesÃ, < and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - and its role in The Wayward Bus is heavily influenced by the Monroe characters at Bus Stop
Other studios are also trying to find their own version of Monroe. Columbia Pictures tried it with Cleo Moore, Warner Bros. along with Carroll Baker, Paramount Pictures with Anita Ekberg, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with Barbara Lang, while Diana Dors is dubbed as England's answer to Mansfield. Jacqueline Susann wrote, "When one studio has Marilyn Monroe, every other studio employs Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren." The crowd of competitors also includes North Sheree, Kim Novak, Joi Lansing, Beverly Michaels, Barbara Nichols and Greta Thyssen, and even two brunettes - Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Russell. Mamie Van Doren, Diana Dors, and Kim Novak also act in various Gentlemen Prefer Blondes productions. Even when the role of Mansfield films dries up, he is widely regarded as the main rival of Monroe; Mansfield regards Mamie Van Doren as his professional enemy. At one point, Monroe, Mansfield, and Mamie were known as The Three M's .
Anatomy
Because of his striking figure, the 1950s regularly published his body measurements, which once led evangelist Billy Graham to exclaim, "This country knows more about Jayne Mansfield statistics than the Second Commandment." Mansfield declared a 41-inch breastline and a 22-inch waistline when he made his Broadway debut in 1955, although some scholars denied the numbers. He is known as "Queen of Cleavage" and "Queen of Sex and Bosom".
It is said that her breasts fluctuate in size from her pregnancy and breastfeed her five children. The smallest breast size was 40D (102 cm), which was constant throughout the 1950s, and the largest was 46DD (117 cm), measured by the press in 1967. According to Playboy, the vital statistics were 40D- 21-36 (102-53-91Ã, cm) on the frame 5'6 "(1.68 m).
It has been claimed that his chest was a major force behind the development of a 1950s bra, including water-cutting bra cuties , bra shutter , bra action , latex pads, division cleavage designs, and raised borders. R. L. Rutsky and Bill Osgerby have claimed that it was Mansfield, along with Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot, who made the bikini popular. Drawing on the Freudian concept of fetishism, British science fiction writer, and socio-cultural commentator, J. G. Ballard commented that the chests of Mae West, Mansfield and Monroe 'overshadow the popular awareness horizon. According to Dave Kehr, when the 1960s approached, the anatomy that had made him a star made him a joke. In this decade, the ideal female body shifts to appreciate features like the slim waist popularized by Twiggy supermodels, actress Audrey Hepburn and others, demarkcating the deaths of a busty blonde bomb.
Publicity
Mansfield's push for publicity is one of Hollywood's strongest. He hands over all privacy, and the door is always open to photographers. In 1954, the day before Christmas, he walked to James Byron's public relations office with a gift and asked him to keep an eye on his publicity, which he did, for the most part, until the end of 1961. Byron pointed to most of the people on his team. - William Shiffrin (press agent), Greg Bautzer (lawyer) and Charles Goldring (business manager) - and are constantly planting publications in the media. He appeared in about 2,500 photographs of the newspaper, and had about 122,000 lines of copies of newspapers written about him between September 1956 and May 1957.
Due to a successful media blitz, she quickly became a household name. In 1960, Mansfield was at the top of the poll for more words in the print media than anyone in the world, has made a more personal appearance than a political candidate, and is considered the most photographed Hollywood celebrity in the world. She makes news regularly, for clothes that do not work and clothing that erupts strategically in the seam, to wear a low cut dress without a bra. Things got worse when he took over his own publicity without advice. According to his agent, William Shiffrin, "He became a freak." James Bacon wrote in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner in 1973, "Here is a girl with a real comedic talent, a spectacular figure and appearance and has not mocked herself for strange publicity."
Mansfield received his first truly negative publicity after he and Hargitay pleaded for poverty when his first wife, Mary Hargitay, whom he divorced on 6 September 1956, requested an additional child allowance for Tina, their first nine-year-old son in September 1958. Mansfield said he sleeps on the floor of his mansion, can not buy furniture, and only spends $ 71 on his daughter, Jayne Marie ($ 1,000 in dollars 2017). During this marriage he had three children, MiklÃÆ' Jeffs Jeffrey Palmer Hargitay (born December 21, 1958), ZoltÃÆ'¡n Anthony Hargitay (born August 1, 1960), and Mariska Hargitay (born January 23, 1964).
Action publicity
In January 1955, Mansfield appeared in Silver Springs, Florida, press junket promoting the movie Underwater! , starring Jane Russell. She accidentally wore a too small red bikini, lent it to her by friend photographer Peter Gowland. When he plunged into the pool for the photographer, his hat appeared, creating an explosion of media attention. The subsequent publicity caused Warner Bros. and Playboy to approach him with an offer. On June 8 of the same year, her dress dropped to her waist twice in one night - once at a movie party, and then at a nightclub. In February 1958, he was topless at the Mardi Gras party in Rio de Janeiro. He came out of his polka-dot dress at Rome's nightclub in June 1962. In the three years since making his Broadway debut at Will Success Destroy Stone Hunters? , Mansfield has been the most controversial star of the decade.
In April 1957, her breasts were the focus of a well-known publicity action intended to deflect media attention from Sophia Loren during a dinner party in honor of the Italian star. Their photos are published worldwide. The most famous photo shows Loren's gaze falling on the actress's cleavage (she sits between Loren and her dinner companion, Clifton Webb) as Mansfield leans over the table, allowing her breasts to spill over her low neck and showing one nipple. The Jayne Mansfield-Sophia Loren photos are a sensation of UPI, appearing in newspapers and magazines with the word "censored" hiding the affected actress's chest.
At the same time, the world's media quickly condemned the action of Mansfield. An editorial columnist wrote, "We were amused when Miss Mansfield tried to pull her stomach to fill her bikini better, but we were angry when career seekers, shady women, and certain stars and actress... used every opportunity to displaying their anatomy unasked. "In the late 1950s, Mansfield began generating a lot of negative publicity because repeated exposure from her breasts was carefully staged" public clothing accidents ". Richard Blackwell, the designer of his wardrobe (also designed for Jane Russell, Dorothy Lamour, Peggy Lee and Nancy Reagan), dropped it off his client list because of this. In April 1967, the Los Angeles Times wrote, "He confuses publicity and fame with stars and celebrities and the results are so disliked by the public."
Signature color
Mansfield adopted pink as a color in 1954, and attributed it to the rest of his career. His original choice was purple, but he thought it was too close to lavender, a typical color of Kim Novak. "That must be the right decision," he said, "because I got more columns than pink than Kim Novak ever did from lavender." In November 1957, shortly before their marriage, using money from inheritance, Mansfield purchased a 40-room Mediterranean-style mansion (formerly owned by Rudy Vallà © e) at 10100 Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California. Mansfield has a pink painted house, with trophies surrounded by pink fluorescent lights, pink feathers in the bathroom, pink heart-shaped bathtubs, and fountains pouring pink champagne; he later called it the "Pink Palace". Hargitay (plumber and carpenter before taking bodybuilding) builds a pink heart-shaped swimming pool. A year after reconstructing the "Pink Palace" as a "pink landmark," he started riding a pink Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible with tailfins, then the only pink Cadillac in Hollywood.
Religion
In August 1963, Mansfield decided to convert to Catholicism. Although he never repented, he attended Catholic services when he was in Europe, and followed Catholic practice when he was involved with a Catholic partner (including Hargitay, Sardelli, and Cimber). In May 1967, his appearance at the Mount Brandon Hotel in Tralee, Ireland, was canceled because the Catholic priest cursed him. He wanted to marry Cimber in a Catholic ceremony, but could not find a priest who would do that. When engaged with Brody, he also showed interest in Judaism.
In San Francisco for the 1966 Film Festival, Mansfield visits the Church of Satan with Sam Brody (his lawyer and girlfriend) to meet with Anton LaVey, the church's founder. He gave Mansfield the medal and the title "High Priestess of the San Francisco Satan Church". The media enthusiastically covers the encounters and events around him, identifying himself as a Satanist and engaging romantically with LaVey. The meeting remains a widely publicized and often cited event, both his life, and the history of the Church of Satan. Karla LaVey confirmed in a 1992 interview with Joan Rivers that Mansfield was indeed a devout devil and that he had a romantic relationship with Anton LaVey. A Methodist pastor conducts his funeral.
Death
In 1967, Mansfield was in Biloxi, Mississippi, for an engagement at Gus Stevens Supper Club. After two appearances on the night of June 28, Mansfield, Sam Brody (his lawyer and companion), their driver Ronnie Harrison (age 20), and his three children - MiklÃÆ'³s, ZoltÃÆ'¡n and Mariska - left Biloxi after midnight in 1966 Buick Electra 225. Their destination is New Orleans, where Mansfield will appear on the WDSU Midday Show the next day. At about 2:25 am, on the US Highway 90 west of the Rigolets Bridge, the Buick crashed at high speed to the rear of the tractor-trailer that slowed behind a truck that sprayed a mist of insecticide-covered mosquitoes. Three adults in the front seat died instantly. Children, falling asleep in the backseat, survived with minor injuries.
Reports that Mansfield beheaded were not true, even though he suffered from severe head trauma. This urban legend begins with the emergence of photographs of police cars falling with the top almost cut off, and what resembles a tangled blond head in a crushed windshield. However, this is a wig worn by Mansfield and perhaps part of the original hair and scalp. His death certificate states that the immediate cause of death was "the skull was destroyed with skull and brain avulsion". After his death, NHTSA recommended the need for unemployed guards (strong bars made of steel pipes) on all tractor-trailers; the truck industry is slow to adopt these changes. In America, lesser known guards are sometimes known as "Mansfield bars," or "ICC bumpers".
The death car was rescued by a private collector in Florida who became a roadside attraction in the 70s. In 2018, this car is owned by Scott Michaels and stored and displayed on the Venerable Tour and amp; Artifact Museum in Los Angeles across from Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Funeral
Mansfield Cemetery took place on July 3 in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania. This service was conducted by Charles Montgomery, a pastor of the Methodist Church of Zion. A private funeral ceremony was held in the Chapel of Funeral Home. Mickey Hargitay is the only ex-husband present at the cemetery. He was interred at Fairview Cemetery, southeast of Pen Argyl, next to his father Herbert Palmer. His heart-shaped tomb reads, "We Live to Love You More Every Day." A cenotaph was placed in Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood by Jayne Mansfield Fan Club, but misquoted his birth year as 1938 (Mansfield tends to misinform his age). In 1968, two false lawsuits were filed on behalf of Jayne Marie Mansfield and Matt Cimber, the first for $ 4.8 million ($ 41.8 million in 2017 dollars) and the last for $ 2.7 million ($ 23 , 5 million in 2017 dollars) although the results are unknown.
Other introductions
- She received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 8, 1960 for her contribution to the film.
- On Mother's Day 1960, Child Care Mildred Strauss at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City declared her family "Family of the Year".
- Italian film, radio and television journalist presented him with the Silver Mask award in 1962.
- Mansfield received an Oscar from the World Two award in Italy.
- In 1963, Mansfield was selected as one of the top 10 box-office attractions by an American theater-owner organization for his performance in Promise! Promise! (movies that are banned in some parts of the US).
- In 1968, the Hollywood Publicists Guild announced the "Jayne Mansfield Award" will be awarded to actresses who receive the most exposure and publicity in a year. Raquel Welch was the first winner of the award in 1969.
Legacy
Mansfield left five children, a collapsed housing estate including the Pink Palace, a large number of followers, and a lasting impact on popular culture. AS 40 top single "Kiss Them For Me" by Siouxsie and Banshees and L.A. Guns song "The Ballad Of Jayne," is about Mansfield and his death.
Estate
After the deaths of Mansfield, Hargitay, Cimbers, Vera Peers (Mansfield's mother), William Pigue (legal guard Jayne Marie), and Charles Goldring (Mansfield business manager), and Bernard B. Cohen and Jerome Webber (both estate administrators) managed to gain control over his inheritance. The Mansfield estates were initially valued at $ 600,000 ($ 3,626,000 in 2017 dollars), including Pink Palace estimated at $ 100,000 ($ 604,000 in 2017 dollars), sports cars selling for $ 7,000 ($ 42,000 in 2017 dollars).
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