Jayne Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield (April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American actress working both on Broadway and in Hollywood. One of the leading blonde sex symbols of the 1950s, Mansfield starred in several popular Hollywood films that emphasized her platinum-blonde hair, hourglass figure and cleavage-revealing costumes. While Mansfield's film career was short-lived, she had several box office successes. She won the Theatre World Award, a Golden Globe and a Golden Laurel. As the demand for blonde bombshells declined in the 1960s, Mansfield was relegated to low-budget film melodramas and comedies, but remained a popular celebrity. In her later career she continued to attract large crowds in foreign countries and in lucrative and successful nightclub tours. Mansfield had been a Playboy Playmate of the Month and appeared in the magazine several additional times. She died in an automobile accident at age 34.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 23.511 |
Birthday | 1933-04-19 |
Place of Birth | Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA |
Also Known As | Vera Jayne Palmer, |
1967
A Guide for the Married Man
5.9/33
A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.
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A Guide for the Married Man
1963
Homesick for St. Paul
5.9/4
A pop singer who has been successful on Broadway, is homesick and returns.
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Homesick for St. Paul
1957
The Burglar
5.742/33
Burglar Nat Harbin and his two associates set their sights on wealthy spiritualist Sister Sarah, who has inherited a fortune -- including a renowned e...
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The Burglar
1964
Dog Eat Dog!
4.3/7
Three thieves rip off a shipment of used money being sent back to the US. As they are escaping the robbery (after having taken a hostage), they wind u...
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Dog Eat Dog!
1956
The Girl Can't Help It
6/61
A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks.
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The Girl Can't Help It
1960
The Challenge
5.3/9
Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.
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The Challenge
1958
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
6.4/26
English gunsmith Jonathon Tibbs travels to the American West in the 1880s to sell firearms to the locals. He inadvertently acquires a reputation of qu...
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The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
1957
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
6.695/64
To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants him to pretend to be her lover.
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1955
Pete Kelly's Blues
6.1/24
In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange fo...
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Pete Kelly's Blues
1963
Promises! Promises!
4.8/12
After a drunken spree on a cruise ship, two women discover that they're pregnant, and set out to find who the fathers are.
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Promises! Promises!
1956
Female Jungle
5.4/14
Alcoholic detective investigating the murder of an actress starts getting worried when all fingers begin to point at him.
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Female Jungle
1955
Illegal
6.5/37
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney...
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Illegal
1968
Single Room Furnished
4.417/12
The story of woman's change from an innocent teenager to an embittered, disillusioned prostitute and the life tragedies which brought the transformati...
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Single Room Furnished
1987
Hollywood Uncensored
5.5/8
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Peter Fonda host an examination of the history of decency standards for movies from the early 1920s onwards.
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Hollywood Uncensored
1957
Kiss Them for Me
5.4/28
Three navy war heroes are booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco. Once they manage to elude their ulcerated public relations officer,...
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Kiss Them for Me
1960
The Loves of Hercules
3.4/38
Hercules decides to avenge the death of his wife, murdered at the hands of Éurito, king of Ecalia, but everything is a plot of an ambitious courtier....
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The Loves of Hercules
1961
The George Raft Story
3.3/3
The 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star George Raft.
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The George Raft Story
1957
The Wayward Bus
5.8/15
Three strangers embark on a life-changing journey on a fateful bus ride. As the road presents challenges, each character faces his or her own shortcom...
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The Wayward Bus
1962
It Happened in Athens
5.1/8
In 1896 it is announced that the Olympic Games will be revived in Athens. A young shepherd, Spiridon Loues, decides to enter the 26-mile marathon. Onc...
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It Happened in Athens
1966
The Fat Spy
2.7/12
A mostly-deserted island, which is believed to be the home to the fountain of youth, is off the coast of Florida. The island gets some visitors in the...
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The Fat Spy
1964
Primitive Love
4.2/10
"Doctor" Jayne Mansfield is in Italy to show a peer her documentary about mating customs from around the world while at the same time having to deal w...
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Primitive Love
1960
Too Hot to Handle
4.5/18
A French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner a...
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Too Hot to Handle
1966
Las Vegas Hillbillys
2.7/3
A Hillbilly hits the big time in Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas Hillbillys
1967
Spree
3.5/2
This documentary on the nightlife of Las Vegas was filmed primarily at the Topicana and Dunes Hotels, respectively, in 1962-63. Musical numbers perfor...
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Spree
1968
The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield
3/6
Jayne takes us on a review of her last world tour. She takes us through Rome, shares a fantasy about Roman athletes, and then is off to Cannes. She ta...
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The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield
1964
Panic Button
4.2/9
A businessman comes up with a scheme to make money by financing a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" that's destined to fail, thus giving him some maj...
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Panic Button
2017
Mansfield 66/67
4.6/10
About the last two years of movie goddess Jayne Mansfield’s life and the speculation swirling around her untimely death being caused by a curse after...
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Mansfield 66/67
1981
Electric Blue 005
2/1
Desiree Cousteau hosts this fifth installment of the series, which features a narrated travelogue from Susan George, home movie footage of Jayne Mansf...
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Electric Blue 005
1955
Hell on Frisco Bay
5/12
A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.
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Hell on Frisco Bay
1998
Playboy: The Story of X
6.286/7
The Story Of X takes you to the earliest days of adult films when men peddled stag reels and projectors out of the trunks of their cars, then through...
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Playboy: The Story of X
1983
Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon on Camera
0/0
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Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon on Camera
2015
Jayne Mansfield: La tragédie d'une blonde
6.25/6
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Jayne Mansfield: La tragédie d'une blonde
1967
Poem Posters
0/0
... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William Burroug...
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Poem Posters
1965
The Love Goddesses
6.3/22
This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry change...
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The Love Goddesses
2019
Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner
9.5/2
Portrait of Julia Jean Turner, from her childhood to her rise of fame as Lana Turner, to her last role.
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Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner
1982
Electric Blue - The Movie
5.3/7
A compilation of clips, hosted by Marilyn Chambers, taken from the 'Electric Blue' series of video tapes.
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Electric Blue - The Movie
1956
The Bachelor
0/0
A bachelor account executive with an advertising agency thinks he has the perfect set-up with three girlfriends. And then there is Marion his devoted...
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The Bachelor
1992
Death Scenes 2
4.5/2
DEATH SCENES II continues the exploration into the dark recesses of violence and rage that ended in such heinous crimes as the Manson Family's assault...
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Death Scenes 2
1988
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
6/1
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
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Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1982
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
6/1
A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s.
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Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1983
Notre Dame de la Croisette
6/1
A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room.
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Notre Dame de la Croisette
1985
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
0/0
William Shatner, Liz Taylor and many more stars blow lines, lose their pants and more in this hilarious collection of movie and TV bloopers.
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Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
1960
People, Hopes, Medals
4.6/5
A documentary covering the 1960 Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, California.
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People, Hopes, Medals
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
6.5/2
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1970
Hollywood Blue
0/0
A collection of vintage erotica from Hollywood movies is intercut with street interviews and newsreel footage.
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Hollywood Blue
1957
The James Dean Story
6.6/12
Released two years after James Dean's death, this documentary chronicles his short life and career via black-and-white still photographs, interviews w...
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The James Dean Story
2006
Playboy: Celebrity Centerfolds
2/2
What do Marilyn Monroe, Suzanne Somers, Pamela Anderson, Anna Nicole Smith, and Carmen Electra all have in common? Their show business careers were la...
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2022
Rat Pack
9/1
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bish...
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Rat Pack
1984
Electric Blue Special: Nude Celebrity Special
0/0
A compilation of nude celebrity scenes
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1967
Mondo Hollywood
5.3/3
Long considered a cult classic, "Mondo Hollywood" captures the underside of Hollywood by documenting a moment in time (1965-67), when an inquisitive t...
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