Jayne Mansfield

Birth Name:

Vera Jayne Palmer

Birth Place:

Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession

Actress, Soundtrack

Was nominated for a Golden Laurel Award for Top Female Musical Performance for "The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw" in 1959
Studied Drama at Southern Methodist University in the early 1940s
Had five children with weight lifter Mickey Hargitay, one of whom is "Law and Order" star Mariska Hargitay
After a couple of years of unsuccessful auditions, she began appearing in films like "Female Jungle" and "Pete Kelly's Blues" in 1955
Started out as a stage actress in local productions in Dallas, including "Death of a Salesman," before convincing her husband to move to Los Angeles so she could become a movie star
Took voice, dance, and violin lessons in her youth and became interested in Hollywood at the age of 13 after a vacation to Los Angeles with her mother
Best known as a Hollywood sex symbol and actress who played Rita Marlowe in "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" and Jerri Jordan in "The Girl Can't Help It․"
Was very successful at self-marketing, choosing pink as the trademark that colored nearly everything she owned and turning the wardrobe malfunction into what one journalist described as "a professional hazard․"
Became the first American actress to appear nude in a major motion picture in 1963's "Promises! Promises!"
During the nine-month period from September 1956 to May 1957, she appeared in an estimated 2,500 newspaper photographs

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