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Wikipedia Summary for Jayne Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American actress. She was also a singer and nightclub entertainer as well as 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 original 1955–1956 Broadway play and the 1957 film version of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?. Her other major movie performances were in The Girl Can't Help It (1956), The Wayward Bus (1957), and Too Hot to Handle (1960). She became the first major American actress in a post-silent Hollywood film to have a nude scene in Promises! Promises! (1963).
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. Mansfield was allegedly 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 accident in Eastern New Orleans at the age of 34.
I am a movie star.
No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject.
If you're going to be a movie star, you should live like one.
War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.
Jayne Mansfield is making a career of being a girl.
I didn't come to Hollywood to be the girl next door. I came to be a movie star.
The real stars are not good actors or actresses. They're personalities.
If you want the best things in life you have to earn them for yourself.
A lot of happiness can be brought to the mentally distraught by a little understanding.
I don't particularly enjoy publicity, it seems to just follow me around.
I'd like ten more babies and ten more chihuahuas and a few Academy Awards. Meanwhile, I enjoy being a sex symbol and making people happy.
My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.
Once you were a starlet. Then you're a star. Can you be a starlet again?
To establish yourself as an actress, you have to become well known. A girl just starting out, I would tell her to concentrate on acting, but she doesn't have to go around wearing blankets.
Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.
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.
I guess a lot of people think that a girl who shows her bosom and wears tight dresses can't be close to God. God has always been close to me. Only He knew what was in my heart.
Momma was the important woman in our home. She never let me forget that she was boss. I was always in the shadow. Every time I tried to step out on my own, I was in trouble with her.
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.
I love sex.... It should be animalistic, it should be sadistic, it should at times be masochistic.... There are few rules and moral conventions.
You gotta have a body.
I'll have to have a palace, of course. I may not be a princess, but I am a movie queen, and every queen should have a palace.
We live to love you more each day.
Men are creatures with eight hands.
I don't really think I am the most beautiful woman in the world at all. If I can create some illusion to that effect -- and it seems I have -- then that is what spells success to me.
Sex appeal is a wonderful, warm, womanly healthy feeling ... it comes only from inside, it's from nothing that's manufactured. It has nothing to do with measurements or lipstick color. To me, it's cleanliness, and youth, an effervescent desire to enjoy life.
Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands.
We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.
Cary Grant was one of the most marvelous men I've ever met.
We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.
Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands.
A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.
When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups.
If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.
I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me.
Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.
Most girls don't know what to do with what they've got.
I like being a pin-up girl. There's nothing wrong with it.
It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted.
I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.
A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee -- a lot more.
My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.