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Jayne Mansfield Jayne Mansfield (April 19, 1933 — June 29, 1967) was an American actress working both on Broadway and in Hollywood. One of the leading blonde sex symbols of the 1950s, Mansfield, like Marilyn Monroe, was a Playboy Playmate of the Month, and appeared in the magazine several more times over the years. She won the Theatre World Award, Golden Globe and Golden Laurel. Mansfield starred in several popular Hollywood films that emphasized her platinum-blonde hair, hourglass figure and cleavage-revealing costumes.
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Born Vera Jayne Palmer April 19, 1933(1933-04-19) Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States
Died June 29, 1967 (aged 34) U.S. Highway 90 near Slidell, Louisiana, United States
Occupation Film, stage and TV actor, singer, nightclub performer, Playboy Playmate
Spouse(s) Paul Mansfield (1950 "1958) Miklós Hargitay (1958 "1964) Matt Cimber (1964 "1966)
Awards won
Golden Globe Awards
  Most Promising Newcomer - Female 1957 The Wayward Bus
Other awards
  Playboy (1955), Playmate of the Month, February Theater World Award (1956), Best Actor - Female, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Golden Laurel (1959), Top Female Musical Performance, The Sheriff of Fr
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Stage Work

Mansfield acted on stage as well as in film. In 1955, she went to New York and appeared in a prominent role in the Broadway production of George Axelrod's comedy Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?. The New York Times described the "commendable abandon" of her scantily clad rendition of Rita Marlowe in the play, "a platinum-pated movie siren with the wavy contours of Marilyn Monroe.

In October Read more...

Recordings

In addition to singing in English and German in a number of films, in 1964, Mansfield released a novelty album called Jayne Mansfield: Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me, on which she recited Shakespeare's sonnets and poems by Marlowe, Browning, Wordsworth, and others against a background of Tchaikovsky's music. The album cover depicted a bouffant-coiffed Mansfield with lips pursed and breasts barely Read more...

Television

Though her roles were becoming increasingly marginalized, in 1964 Mansfield turned down the role of Ginger Grant in Gilligan's Island, claiming that the role, which eventually was given to Tina Louise, epitomized the stereotype she wished to rid herself of.

Mansfield toured with Bob Hope for the USO and appeared on numerous television programs, including The Ed Sullivan Show and The Jack Read more...

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