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Jayne Mansfield Death Photos

Jayne Mansfield Death Photos Biography

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Jayne Mansfield was an American actress born on April 19, 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She gained fame and pin-up status after suffering wardrobe malfunctions in front of photographers. She was offered roles in several films such as Kiss Them For Me (1957), The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958) and It Takes a Thief (1960). She experienced a career lull in the 1960s, though she did act in small roles on film and stage. Mansfield died in a car accident on June 29,1967 at the age of 34. Her daughter, Mariska Hartigay, is a well-known and respected television actress.

Early Life

Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer on April 19, 1933, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Mansfield's father, Herbert Palmer, was an attorney, and her mother, Vera Palmer, was a retired schoolteacher. Mansfield endured a childhood tragedy at the age of 3, when her father passed away from a heart attack at the age of 30. Her father's death came as a complete shock; he had attended a routine physical the very morning of his death and was proclaimed entirely healthy.

Reflecting back on the tragedy, Mansfield later said, "Something went out of my life... My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive." Mansfield's mother returned to teaching to support the family, and in 1939, with her daughter's approval, she married an engineer named Harry Peers and they moved with him to Dallas, Texas.
Jayne Mansfield was 16 years old when she met a boy named Paul Mansfield at a Christmas party and immediately fell in love. They married just months later, in May of 1950, a few weeks before Mansfield graduated from Highland Park High School in Dallas. Later that year, she gave birth to a daughter, Jayne Marie Mansfield.While her husband served in the Korean War, Mansfield studied drama at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and appeared in local plays, including a production of Death of a Salesman with the Knox Street Players.

Early Hollywood Career

Mansfield's first years in Hollywood brought mostly disappointment. She had several unsuccessful auditions for Paramount and Warner Bros. and had to take work selling candy at a movie theater. She also sought out modeling work, but at her first professional photo shoot, an advertisement for General Electric, she was cropped out of the picture because she looked "too sexy" for 1954 audiences.

As she struggled to break into show business, her marriage suffered, and in 1955 she and Paul Mansfield split ways (she decided to keep his last name because she thought it sounded "illustrious"). That same year, she landed her first film roles, small parts in a trio of films: Female Jungle, Pete Kelly's Blues and Illegal.

Commercial Success

From then on, as one journalist put it, Mansfield "suffered so many on-stage strap and zipper mishaps that nudity was, for her, a professional hazard." Shortly after the Underwater incident, she landed a role in the Broadway production and film adaptation of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter. Those performances finally established her as a star actress, and she went on to feature in such films as Kiss Them For Me (1957), The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958) and It Takes a Thief (1960).
Nevertheless, many more people saw her photograph than her movies -- in just nine months, from September 1956 to May 1957, Mansfield appeared in an astonishing 2,500 newspaper photographs.

Attempt to Reignite Career

After seeing her career fizzle out somewhat for the next several years, in 1963 Mansfield again made headlines after becoming the first American actress to appear nude in a major motion picture, Promises! Promises! While the film generated significant buzz, it failed to reignite her film career, and she made only a handful more films, including Panic Button (1964), The Fat Spy (1966) and Single Room Furnished (1967).
In the later years of her career, Mansfield also returned to Broadway with an acclaimed turn in Bus Stop and developed into a successful nightclub performer with an act that combined song, comedy and impromptu banter with the audience.

Personal Life

After her 1955 split from Paul Mansfield, Jayne Mansfield's personal life followed a turbulent, dramatic and highly publicized course that often overshadowed her acting career.In 1958, she married the winner of the Mr. Universe Competition, Mickey Hargitay, and they had three children.

Fatal Car Crash

On June 29, 1967, Mansfield and Brody were driving home from a nightclub performance in Mississippi when they whipped around a dark curve and crashed into a slow-moving semi-truck, instantly killing both of them. Jayne Mansfield was only 34 years old and still in the prime of her career at the time of her shocking and tragic death.