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Jayne Mansfield was an American film, theater, and television actress. She was also a nightclub entertainer and a singer, and one of the early Playboy Playmates. She was a major Hollywood sex symbol during the 1950s and early 1960s while under contract at 20th Century Fox. She was also known for her well-publicized personal life and publicity stunts, such as "wardrobe malfunctions".

Mansfield's film career was short-lived, but she had several box-office successes and won a Theatre World Award and a Golden Globe. She enjoyed success in the role of fictional actress Rita Marlowe, both in the 1955–1956 Broadway version and the 1957 film version of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Her other major movie performances were in The Girl Can't Help It , The Wayward Bus , and Too Hot to Handle . She became the first major American actress in a Hollywood film to have a nude scene in Promises! Promises! .

Mansfield took her professional name from her first husband, public-relations professional Paul Mansfield. She was married and divorced three times and had five children. She allegedly was intimately involved with numerous men, including Robert and John F. Kennedy, her attorney Samuel S. Brody, and Las Vegas entertainer Nelson Sardelli. On June 29, 1967, she died in an automobile collision in Eastern New Orleans at age 34. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. April 1933 – 29. June 1967  •  Other names Jayne Mansfieldová
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Jayne Mansfield: 14 quotes1 like

Famous Jayne Mansfield Quotes

“A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.”

Jayne Mansfield

Here They Are Jayne Mansfield (1992)

“I don't know why you people [the press] like to compare me to Marilyn or that girl, what's her name, Kim Novak. Cleavage, of course, helped me a lot to get where I am. I don't know how they got there.”

Jayne Mansfield

Here They Are Jayne Mansfield (1992)

“If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.”

Jayne Mansfield

Source: On Being Blonde (2004), p. 79

“I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for betterment for me.”

Jayne Mansfield

Here They Are Jayne Mansfield (1992)

“I've been identified with pink throughout my career, but I'm not as crazy about it as I've led people to believe. My favorite colors are actually neutrals—black and white—but then who thinks of a movie queen in black and white? Everything has to be in living color.”

Jayne Mansfield

Here They Are Jayne Mansfield (1992)

“Mickey is a hard worker. He takes care of the house, looks after my animals, and satisfies me. What else can one expect of a man?”

Jayne Mansfield

On her second husband, Mickey Hargitay
Here They Are Jayne Mansfield (1992)

Jayne Mansfield Quotes

“Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a female can enjoy. A father shares in that experience, knowing that he caused it to happen.”

Jayne Mansfield

Here They Are Jayne Mansfield (1992)

“Nothing risqué nothing gained!”

Jayne Mansfield

Source: On Being Blonde (2004), p. 78

“It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, you know, knowing you are loved and wanted.”

Jayne Mansfield

Source: On Being Blonde (2004), p. 79

“Honey, beside me, you look like Tony Randall!”

Jayne Mansfield

Remark to one of the Gabor sisters
Here They Are Jayne Mansfield (1992)

“A forty-one inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee — a lot more. But most girls don't know what to do with what they've got.”

Jayne Mansfield

Here They Are Jayne Mansfield (1992)

“I don't want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn't say anything too strong but I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.”

Jayne Mansfield

Here They Are Jayne Mansfield (1992)

“We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables…. You are what you eat, you know. When I'm 100, I'll still be doing pin-ups.”

Jayne Mansfield

Source: On Being Blonde (2004), p. 78

“I like being a pin-up girl. There's nothing wrong with it.”

Jayne Mansfield

As quoted in The Sex Goddess in American Film, 1930-1965: Jean Harlow, Mae West, Lana Turner, and Jayne Mansfield (2009) by Jessica Hope Jordan

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