JAYNE MANSFIELD
Jayne Mansfield ( below) was born
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Vera Jane the extra y came later Palmer on April 19, 1933, at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, weighing a whopping 9lb 10oz.
Her father Herbert rt Palmer
● aged 32 of a heart t attack while driving when Jayne was three ee and sitting in the back of a car.
Jayne married
● for the first ( of three) times when she was 17 and preg- nant with daughter
Jayne Marie.
In April 1954, Jayne hd had a screen
● test at Paramount and was mentored by Baruch Lumet, dad of film director Sidney Lumet.
Mansfield made her film debut in
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The Female Jungle ( 1955) for which she was paid $150.
Jayne appeared on British TV for
● the first time in 1957, reciting lines from Shakespeare. died
In November 1957, Jayne bought a
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40- room Mediterranean- style mansion ( formerly owned by the crooner Rudy Vallée) at 10100 Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California.
She had the house painted pink and
● it became known as the Pink
Palace. It was bought by Engelbert Humperdinck, who sold it in 2002. Jayne made her first notable stage
● appearance on October 22, 1953, in Death Of A Salesman, a play written by Art Arthur Miller, who in 1956 would become the t third husband of Marilyn Monroe ( left). Jayne died in a
● car crash in 1967. She was in a 1966 B Buick Electra 225 w with her boyfriend Sa Sam Brody, their driver R Ronnie Harrison ( 20) and three th of her children – Miklós, Zoltán and Mariska. The car smashed into a trailer, killing the adults. The children survived. hM