by Often compared to Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield was a Hollywood star with a tragic fate. 58 years after his death, his daughter Mariska Hargitay (“New York Special Unit”) devotes an overwhelming documentary to him.
Often compared to Marilyn Monroe during her short and intense career, this Hollywood starlet, platinum blonde and considered as a sex symbol is the subject of an overwhelming, touching and above all authentic documentary since he was made by his own daughter.
Jayne Mansfield is an actress, singer and American cabaret very popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Died in full glory in 1967, the actress left behind several children, including Mariska Hargitay, known for her iconic role of Olivia Benson in the New York Special Unit series.
The actress devotes a documentary film to her mother, soberly entitled My Mom, Jayne, in which she seeks to know, understand and embrace her mother for the first time.
Through intimate interviews and a collection of unpublished photos and family films, she attacks her mother's public and private heritage and discovers the diapers and the depth of what Jayne was, not only for her audience, but also for those who were closest to her.
Who was Jayne Mansfield?
Born in 1933 in Pennsylvania, Jayne Mansfield has always known that she wanted to be an artist. Between drama and psychology courses, the young woman earns many beauty contests. Jayne Mansfield gets married and also becomes a very young mother.
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In 1954, she left to settle in Los Angeles and the following year, she became one of the first playmates of Playboy magazine. Jayne Mansfield then tried her luck in Hollywood but wiped refusals from studios like Warner Bros and Paramount Pictures.
She then turns some time in Z series, which mainly put her physique forward. In 1956, Jayne Mansfield signed a contract with the Twentieth Century-Fox, who tried to replace Marilyn Monroe who separated from the studio.
Uplining in a more popular and “vulgar” register, Jayne Mansfield is snubbed by the profession and reduced to her plastic. This does not prevent him from meeting success with the public.
The actress gained popularity after having held the role of fictitious actress Rita Marlowe in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? In Broadway, which she resumed in her cinematographic adaptation entitled La Blonde Explosive in 1957.
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Among its other striking films, we find the musical La Blonde et moi (1956), the drama Les Naufragés de l'Autocar (1957), the drama the burglar (1957), the film neo-black La Blonde et les nus de Soho (1960), and the promised erotic comedy! Promised! (1963), who made Jayne Mansfield the first American actress to appear in a nude scene in a mail post-element film.
Nicknamed the “smartest blonde” in Hollywood, Jayne Mansfield had several successes at the box office and won theater World and a Golden Globe.
His daughter pays tribute to him for years after her disappearance
In addition to her ephemeral career, Jayne Mansfield was also known for her advertising blows and for her private life spread out in the scandal press. Mansfield takes his professional name from his first husband, the public relations professional Paul Mansfield.
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The actress married three times, each marriage ending with a divorce, and had five children. Rumors give him links with many men, including Robert and John F. Kennedy, his lawyer Samuel S. Brody and the artist of Las Vegas Nelson Sardelli.
The documentary My Mom, Jayne de Mariska Hargitay reveals a huge family secret, concerning Jayne Mansfield and his daughter, and who turned the whole family upside down. Despite her romantic setbacks, Jayne Mansfield was more than the public, the media and Hollywood wanted to make her.
Her idiotic blonde characters were composition roles in which she was having fun since Jayne Mansfield had an IQ of 163. She was a very cultivated woman, who spoke five languages and was a classic pianist and violinist.
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On June 29, 1967, she died in a road accident at the age of 34 when she returned from one of her performances in a club. The actress, accompanied by her lover Sam Brody and three of her children (including Mariska Hargitay) went to New Orleans for an interview she was to give the next day.
The car was embedded in a truck that had just braked abruptly. Only the three children survived the accident. Mariska Hargitay was therefore a miraculous who lost her mother at the age of only 3 years.
58 years later, Mariska Hargitay, who became the best paid actress on television, delivers an overwhelming documentary on this famous mother, Sex Symbol, artist, rebel that she has known so little and that this project made it possible to discover and love better.
The documentary film “My Mom, Jayne” is available on the Max platform.
