Really, There Was No Way She Could've Helped It
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I wonder how many viewer of Law & Order SVU know how famous Mariska Hartigay’s mother was once. From a fine review of Manfield’s Frank Tashlin movies.
… With an insatiable appetite for fame and a figure that seems to have sprung from the imagination of a dirty-minded cartoonist, Jayne (it would be heartless to call her Mansfield) parlayed pin-up work into a contract as a bit player at Twentieth Century Fox. Bigger roles came her way in the mid-’50s, accompanied by near-hysterical press coverage. But both petered out, and Jayne sank into European exploitation movies, cheapie American-made nudies, regional theater, third-rate nightclub tours—and alcohol and drugs on top of that. …
The Girl Can’t Help It: Jayne Mansfield’s Allure