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  Jayne Mansfield sees a ghost and spirit
Jayne Mansfield's hairdresser was a medium and they used to hold seances in the home of Houdini's widow.
Jayne Mansfield's own ghostly presence was in turn felt by the singer Engelbert Humperdinck, who purchased her famous pink palace after her death.* He said "I'm sure she lived with me in spirit for a time I'd smell her rose petal perfume.
Rumors that Jayne Mansfield was decapitated are untrue.
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 Jayne Mansfield
ayne Mansfield (1933-1967), motion picture actress, daughter of Herbert W. and Vera (Jeffrey) Palmer, was born at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, on April 19, 1933.
Jayne divorced Mansfield in 1956 and married Miklos (Mickey) Hargitay, a former Mr.
On June 29, 1967, Jayne Mansfield was killed in a motor accident near New Orleans, Louisiana, on the way to a television engagement.
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 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Movies (Jayne Mansfield)
Scalping is perhaps a closer description of Mansfield's fate, but even that word does not accurately reflect the cranial trauma she suffered, because scalping victims at least retain an intact skull.
Mansfield probably never felt what happened to her, and because of the sharply reduced visibility conditions on the road that night, she likely had only an instant of "We're going to crash!" shock to cope with before the impact.
Some have chosen to attribute Mansfield's early demise (she was 34) to a curse somehow connected to the International Church of Satan, an institution founded in 1966 by Anton LaVey.
www.snopes.com /movies/actors/jayne.htm   (507 words)

  
 Official Jayne Mansfield Web Site
Jayne's desire to become a star was not ignited that day; the trip only fanned flames that had always burned within her.
Jayne was on her way to becoming a celebrity when she attended a Mae West performance at the Latin Quarter.
Jayne's personality was so vibrant, her career so vivacious, that it was impossible to believe she was gone.
www.jaynemansfield.com /biography.html   (1680 words)

  
 Jayne Mansfield St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
Mansfield's movie career was so brief that she would not have obtained cult status had it not been for the countless number of photos and news stories she generated during her lifetime.
Mansfield was born on April 19, 1933,; in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
In the spring of 1957,; she received a number of "most-promising" awards for her acting on Broadway and on the screen, and in that year, she continued to be a focal point for the press and appeared on a number of television variety shows.
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 Aint No Way to Go: Jayne Mansfield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
LA — Jayne Mansfield, the platinum blonde who never won true Hollywood stardom but gained worldwide fame and fortune because of her shapely figure, died early Thursday in a car-truck smashup on the curve of a narrow Louisiana road.
The three victims were caught in the jumbled wreckage of the front seat — Miss Mansfield in blue stockings, blue dress and blue boots, and the two men also in the front seat beside her, badly mangled.
Auction attendees report that Mansfield was not decapitated, but was instead scalped, which was apparently confirmed by police photos of the accident scene, and which explains why some accounts reported that she merely lost a wig.
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 John and Jayne Mansfield - Bill Harry - Mersey Beat
Jayne Mansfield, born Vera Jane Palmer in Pennsylvania on 19 April 1933, was a pneumatic blonde promoted by Hollywood as another Marilyn Monroe.
May Mann, in her biography ‘Jayne Mansfield’, claimed that on the Beatles’ first American tour John Lennon mentioned that the one film star he wanted to see was Jayne Mansfield.
Jayne was killed in a road accident two years later, although not actually decapitated as rumours persist.
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 Jayne Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer on April 19, 1933, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, to Herbert and Vera Palmer.
Mansfield wanted more attention so she dyed her hair platinum blond and began to act as a “dumb blond.” Her looks were often compared to those of Marilyn Monroe.
Mansfield’s grandfather died on January 2, 1957, and left her a large inheritance, so she bought an old Hollywood Mansion from Rudy Vallee, which she called the “Pink Palace.” The home was purchased for a low price because it needed a lot of repairs.
www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu /LitMap/bios/Mansfield__Jayne.html   (921 words)

  
 Jayne Mansfield at Classic Actresses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jane Palmer on April 19, 1933, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
Jayne's father died when she was three years old.
Jayne convinced her husband to move to Hollywood so she could pursue an acting career.
www.classicactresses.com /jayne.html   (456 words)

  
 Jayne Mansfield's Grave, Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania
A heart-shaped headstone marks the final resting place of actress Jayne Mansfield, born Vera Jane Palmer in the town of Bryn Mawr, PA in 1933.
Like all the bleach-blonde sex goddesses, Jayne's career was waning in the wake of Marilyn's death -- when she met her own untimely end at the age of 34.
The complete Mansfield is interred in Pen Argyl; the marker in Hollywood is a memorial cenotaph.
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 Jayne Mansfield Photos - Jayne Mansfield News - Jayne Mansfield Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Jayne was interested in the occult and attended seances, several of which were held at Rudolph Valentino's home.
Jayne recorded the album "Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky and Me" in 1963, with her reading classical poetry.
Jayne Mansfield was the Playboy "Playmate of the Month" in February 1955.
www.tv.com /jayne-mansfield/person/83058/summary.html   (265 words)

  
 Club Pinup Jayne Mansfield
Born Vera Jayne Palmer at the whopping weight of ten pounds in Bryn Marr Pennsylvania, Jayne was big at birth and bound to be big in life.
At the press conference Mickey did the opposite and proclaimed his undying love for Jayne Mansfield, and was promptly knocked out of his chair by another one of Mae's muscle men.
Jayne went to Sophia's table with the press at hand, and congratulated her on her success, while meanwhile dropping her cleavage in Sophia, and the Camera's face.
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 Amazon.ca: Mansfield, Jayne: Wild Wild Wor: DVD: Arthur Knight,Charles W. Broun Jr.,Joel Holt,Jayne Mansfield,Robert ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Jayne, who was dead at the time this film was released, is breathlessly portrayed by a sound-alike as she narrates this film, which is part travelogue, part soft-core pornography, and part gory-drama.
Autopsy records clearly show that Jayne was actually only "scalped", but if you know anything at all about the publicity-hungry Jayne Mansfield, you know that she'd prefer the full-on gore of decapitation to be the official version of her untimely death at age 33.
Jayne lives on in her children, primarily in the spirit of her daughter Mariska Hargitay of TV fame ("Law & Order S.V.U.), who at age 3 was in the backseat of the car when Jayne lost her head.
www.amazon.ca /Mansfield-Jayne-Wild-Wor/dp/B0000A0DX8   (1600 words)

  
 Jayne Mansfield: Sex Symbol
Jayne Mansfield fans anxious to let the world know of their infatuation with one of Hollywood's most celebrated actress.
Jayne Mansfield, born Vera-Jayne Palmer, was born April 19, 1933 in in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.
Jayne's popularity was rising, to the point of having her choice of roles.
www.squidoo.com /JayneMansfield   (1250 words)

  
 Java's Bachelor Pad: Jayne Mansfield
In the 1950's, Jayne Mansfield was probably the most well-known Hollywood blonde bombshell next to Marilyn Monroe.
As intelligent as she was (an IQ of 163) and as much as she wanted to be taken seriously as an actress, she could never shed her image of the dumb blonde.
In the 1960's the world changed, but Mansfield stayed where she was, a prisoner of her pink-colored world and unmarketable to a new generation who had grown tired of the classic glamour model.
www.javasbachelorpad.com /jayne.html   (164 words)

  
 Jayne Mansfield Collection - The Girl Can't Help It / The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw / Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
In watching Mansfield’s numerous efforts to sway audiences with her stiff saunter and utterly clueless remarks, one can’t help but question the pressure Fox executives were placing on her to convey very specific qualities; it wasn’t just a coincidence that she exhibited a striking resemblance to Marilyn Monroe.
Mansfield had the figure and the potential to be a suitable replacement for Marilyn, and if she were under such an impression, there was obvious incentive for her to follow Monroe’s onscreen characteristics to a tee.
Mansfield had future potential with a genuinely likable persona (when she wasn’t incessantly whining or squealing under the direction of Tashlin) and a dedication that easily surpassed that of Monroe.
www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDReviews23/jayne_mansfield_collection.htm   (1744 words)

  
 DVD Savant Review: Jayne Mansfield Collection
Although Jayne is quite a beauty in those films, she doesn't do the extreme posing or make with the open-mouthed "breathless" looks that sometimes give her the appearance of a fish out of water.
Although Jayne's subsequent characters attempted to steer away from her sexpot interpretation, her publicity never did -- that's the image she was known by, and that she had to live with.
Mansfield was probably being shown the studio gate, her swansong film is well produced and she does have a character to play...
www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s2061jayn.html   (3910 words)

  
 Jayne Mansfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer April 19, 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; died June 29, 1967 near New Orleans, Louisiana) was an American actress and sex symbol.
Busty actress expert Russ Meyer said that Jayne's reputation for being large breasted was a false one and that it was due mainly to her large ribcage and tireless attention getting schemes that had the press continually fixated on her chest.
Mansfield was unable to upstage Anita Ekberg who had the largest natural breasts in A-List Hollywood history at 39DD when she tried to pull a similar stunt on a studio backlot.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jayne_Mansfield   (3424 words)

  
 Jayne Mansfield
There are those that say Jayne was involved with the Church of Satan, ran by Anton LaVey, and her death was a result of a curse he put on her.
I believe from all accounts Jayne's association with La Vey was clearly publicity, he was very hot at the time and she knew that, so she used it.
He told her that Jayne was "dirty." She walked around without shoes and her toenails needed "a good cleaning." Also, he said she smelled like strong "B.O." Don't know if it's true, but that's the story Mom had to share about Jayne.
www.findadeath.com /Deceased/m/Mansfield/jayne_mansfield.htm   (3388 words)

  
 Salon.com People | Jayne Mansfield: The brand called two
In 1967, several months before actress Jayne Mansfield drove into a cloud of insecticide to meet her destiny, a London newspaper took the full measure of the movie star and found her breasts to be 2 inches larger than the 44 inches she was then claiming for them.
Mansfield was reduced to rounds of telethon and dinner theater appearances.
Mansfield and her gruesome end serve as the bimbo's Ozymandias -- a warning against attaching one's public persona to something so fickle as cultural tastes in allure.
archive.salon.com /people/feature/2001/08/06/jayne_mansfield   (570 words)

  
 New Orleans Radio Shrine - The Night Jayne Mansfield Died
The movie was forgettable but the come-on was that Jayne Mansfield was topless in this "B" movie (in one scene it turned out, with Jayne waking up and stretching in bed at the very beginning, with the sheet falling from her shoulders to her waist as she stretched).
In the summer of 1967, Jayne was booked for a two-week (I think) appearance at Gus Stevens' supper club on the beach road and right by the famous lighthouse in Biloxi, Mississippi, an area of hot tourist activity and lots of beach fun.
Jayne Mansfield was tossed out of the Buick by the impact and she landed on the shoulder of the road.
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 Salon.com People | Jayne Mansfield: The brand called two
Mansfield was not so lucky; she overstayed her welcome.
Mansfield cottoned immediately to the importance of visual shorthand in a world already saturated with images.
Mansfield developed more visual iconography: an all-pink mansion called the "Pink Palace" with pink rugs and bathtubs filled with pink champagne, furs and cars.
archive.salon.com /people/feature/2001/08/06/jayne_mansfield/index1.html   (1186 words)

  
 A Day with Jayne Mansfield
It was mounted on a raised platform, with Jayne sitting in it as guests one by one joined her, with only their heads showing over the furry rim, while a photographer snapped their pictures.
Jayne was in her element: pleasing the admiring crowd.
Perhaps somewhat true, but our experience with the other Jayne convinced us that she also wanted simply to be herself but couldn’t find enough chance to do so or to find enough people to accept her that way.
www.thescreamonline.com /photo/photo2-3/mansfield/mansfield.html   (1078 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Jayne Mansfield Collection (The Girl Can't Help It / The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw / Will Success Spoil Rock ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Although Jayne Mansfield never reached the heights of popularity and fame of Marilyn Monroe, her films are highly entertaining, campy and great fun.
As she does in all her films, Jayne plays a highly exaggerated parody of Monroe, but brings her own brand of humor and sweetness to her roles.
Despite their worthiness for dissection and serious critique, it's all really secondary to the fact that these are two very funny and enjoyable movies, on any level, and both are ideal for an evening of lounging on the couch with a bag of popcorn, forgetting your problems, and laughing your contour assets off.
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 Denny Jackson's Jayne Mansfield Page
Jayne Mansfield was born, Vera Jayne Palmer, on April 19, 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
Jayne's plans had to be put on hold when she became pregnant by Paul Mansfield who she married in May of 1950.
Jayne did have a real talent for acting, but the movie executives insisted she stay in her dumb blonde stereotype roles.
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