Jayne Mansfield
(1933 - 1967)
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JAYNE MANSFIELD
Jayne Mansfield
(1933 - 1967)
Real Name: Vera Jayne Palmer
Born: April 19, 1933, Bryn Mawr, PA
Died: 1967, New Orleans, LA
Married at 16 and a mother at 17.
She attended drama classes at the University of Texas and later at UCLA. She made her screen debut as a supporting player in 1955.
Firs Success: On Broadway in WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER?.
She later did the movie version. But true fame avoided her and she sunk into repeating her dumb blonde role in every movie she ever made.
After 3 husbands, and dozens of bad films, she was killed (decapitated) in a car accident while riding with her two children (who both survived).
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