PLAYBOY US 1957 02 FEBRUARY JAYNE MANSFIELD JAZZ THE 1957 PLAYBOY ALL-STARS SALLY TODD

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Her other film roles include the musical comedy The Girl Can’t Help It (1956), the drama The Wayward Bus (1957), the neo-noir Too Hot to Handle (1960), and the sex comedy Promises! Born Vera Jane Palmer in 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Jayne Mansfield first made headlines with a nude pictorial in Playboy, in 1955. A sex symbol while under contract at 20th Century Fox, Mansfield was known for her well-publicized personal life and publicity stunts. Mansfield then spent a year at Camp Gordon, Georgia, while her husband Paul served in the United States Army Reserve during the Korean War.

Reputed to be Hollywood’s “smartest dumb blonde”, she later complained that the public did not care about her brains saying, “They’re more interested in 40–21–35 [a reference to her body measurements]. She began taking modeling jobs, even though she faced resistance at first, as many casting directors felt her curvy figure was too sexy for commercial ads. By her own account, the only title she refused was Miss Roquefort Cheese, because she believed it “just didn’t sound right. B202; Jayne Mansfield; The Fly; Langelaan; Silverstein; Corrida; Barnaby Conad; Arthur Knight; Pros Of Paris; Playboy Bed; Miss America Joke * by HUGH HEFFNER, + Staff: Good Soft cover (1963) | L.

Although her career spanned only a little more than a decade, Jayne Mansfield certainly left her mark on Hollywood. C. Jones (Babbette, a female impersonator hair stylist), then grasping it in her hand and lifting it high. The truth is that many think that the infamous Playboy curse is the main reason behind these deaths. She entered the Miss California contest but Paul found out and forced her to withdraw from the competition. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.

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Live bidding: Bids entered during the course of the sale by bidders on the floor, on the phone, or live on the internet will be taken at the amount bid. Joan Jacobs Brumberg describes the 1950s as "an era distinguished by its worship of full-breasted women" and attributes the paradigm shift to Mansfield and Monroe.In 1980, a television film was made on her life — The Jayne Mansfield Story — which was nominated for three Emmy Awards in the categories for hair, makeup and costume.