Jayne Mansfield Overview:

Character actress, Jayne Mansfield, was born Vera Jayne Palmer on Apr 19, 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Mansfield died at the age of 34 on Jun 29, 1967 in Slidell, LA and was laid to rest in Fairview Cemetery in Pen Argyl, Northampton County, PA.

MINI BIO:

Pneumatic American blonde star with little to offer beyond outsize breasts, a cute face, and a little-girl voice - enough to propel her to stardom in a few major films at that home of busty blondes through the years, 20th Century Fox. The seemingly inevitable downward spiral through men, drink, drugs, and semi-nude appearances in nightclubs was graphically depicted in a thousand newspaper stories. Died in a car crash.

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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.

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Jayne Mansfield Quotes:

Rita Marlowe: I picked him up, I can pick him down.


Rita Marlowe: Don't leave me out, I have to be important in my own incorporated.


Rita Marlowe: How can I remember? I'm all excited because you're loving me up!


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Jayne Mansfield Facts
She was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in March 2008 in Austin, Texas. Her daughter, Mariska Hargitay, accepted the award.

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.

Was a classically trained pianist and violinist.

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