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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 16, 2020 12:01:50 GMT
I have not seen a single Jayne Mansfield movie, and yet, she seems to be a minor pop culture icon, like the poor man's Marilyn Monroe or an Anna Nicole Smith for the 50's & 60's. I have no opinion of her work, having not seen any yet, but I wonder if she's famous more for her tragic death or for being a sex symbol? My only cinematic relationship to Jayne Mansfield so far has been the 1980 TV movie The Jayne Mansfield Story story starring Loni Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012), in which Robert Duvall goes to an exhibit of her car. I have heard some positive things said about The Girl Can't Help It (1956), would that be a good place in her filmography to begin? Most of us are probably aware of this, but in case you're not, Jayne Mansfield is Mariska Hargitay's mother.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on May 16, 2020 12:14:36 GMT
I have also never seen any of her work, but i think she is more famous for being a sex symbol.
Mariska Hargitay keeps a photo of her mother on her desk on the Law and order SVU set.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on May 16, 2020 12:21:42 GMT
Here is my analysis, based on what little I know, FWIW.
She was very intelligent, very good at self-marketing, and a minor league Satan-worshipper. Age caught up with her, as it does with us all eventually, and her career was fading when she checked out horrifically. In that regard perhaps she did better than her contemporaries like Sheree North or Mamie Van Doren. A candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
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Post by petrolino on May 16, 2020 16:39:52 GMT
My favourite Jayne Mansfield films are Paul Wendkos' 'The Burglar' (1957) and Terence Young's 'Too Hot To Handle' (1960). Two crime movies.
Frank Tashlin's 'The Girl Can't Help It' (1956) has some nice moments and Tashlin directs with style.
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Post by teleadm on May 16, 2020 19:00:48 GMT
I've seen her in: A British made Western, directed by old pro Raoul Walsh, no less. 1958. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? 1957, Rock Hunter was played by Tony Randall, and the woman massaging is Joan Blondell. According to a book Jayne Mansfield was given a contract by Twentieth Century Fox to spite their money-maker Marilyn Monroe for going to Britain and make a movie with Laurence Olivier, as a replacement. Marilyn came back and got a four picture deal, and Fox was stuck with a seven-year contract with Jayne. That clip was from a movie called Panic Button 1964, it get's very low points in all my old movie guides, I can't confirm it since I've never seen it myself.
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Post by politicidal on May 17, 2020 13:24:29 GMT
Hadn’t seen any of her movies. Just her nipple slip.
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Post by bravomailer on May 17, 2020 14:01:02 GMT
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and The Girl Can't Help it are wonderful fifties comedies. Nicely filmed by Frank Tashlin.
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Post by divtal on May 17, 2020 16:07:37 GMT
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and The Girl Can't Help it are wonderful fifties comedies. Nicely filmed by Frank Tashlin. I've never seen any of her films. But, I'll check those two, and maybe others. I looked at her IMDb page, and was surprised to see how many films she made. She's credited with 35, but as with many actors, the first few are bit-parts ... "uncredited," in Hell on Frisco Bay, and "cigarette girl," in Pete Kelly's Blues. But, she seems to be a principal character in many. I do remember her being a guest on a gazillion TV shows, and the "Self" category on her IMDb page confirmed that memory. Often, her "gimmick" was to wear a gown with a skirt so tight that she had to take tiny little steps to make her entrance across the stage.
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 18, 2020 12:00:10 GMT
Lovely and smart and able to laugh at her self and at her deliberately crafted image.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 24, 2022 0:12:36 GMT
Saw both her and her husband in The Loves of Hercules (1960).
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 24, 2022 1:20:55 GMT
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 24, 2022 1:24:34 GMT
also mentioned as her debut was Female Jungle (1955)Explained by ... "Shot in November-December 1954, not released until June 1956." Jayne Mansfield was paid $150 for her role and went back to her job selling popcorn at a movie theater after making this movie.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 24, 2022 1:24:36 GMT
Oh right, I saw that too a few months ago!
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 24, 2022 1:34:44 GMT
another early film .. worth checking out if only because it is a good movie with Dan Duryea ! ! The Burgler (1957)The Poster: Actuality: IMDb: "Producer Louis W. Kellman cast the relatively unknown Jayne Mansfield as Gladden after seeing the normally jaded and unflappable film crew's "overheated" reaction to her on the set of Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)." -- she had the role of a cigarette girl
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Post by london777 on Jan 24, 2022 1:44:52 GMT
You can watch Too Hot to Handle (1960) on YouTube. It is the US version, intended to be shown on TV and thus in black and white. The film is directed by Terence Young who made the first three Bond movies. It is a real oddity, made to showcase the (ahem) talents of Jayne Mansfield, who was top-billed, but she actually has little screen-time and is not involved in what passes for a plot. The real lead is Leo Genn, absurdly miscast as the owner of a sleazy stripclub fighting off a mob takeover. Christopher Lee is the heavy, and 22-year old Barbara Windsor, looking nearer 30, is supposed to be a 16 y.o. would-be stripper. Her role was heavily cut on Mansfield's insistence. Oddest of all, Karlheinz Boehm has third billing in a role shoe-horned into the movie, which only distracts from the action, as a lovesick French journalist. Why French, despite his heavy German accent? Were Germans still that unpopular in 1960 in the UK? He and ace cameraman Otto Heller worked on the somewhat more significant Peeping Tom in the same year. Knowing Heller's expressionistic colourwork in Peeping Tom, it is a pity that the UK colour version of our movie is apparently lost. This b&w US version also had 9 minutes cut, which does not help. I wonder if those 9 minutes would show us more of Miss Mansfield? Quiz question: Karlheinz Boehm was the son of one of the truly great orchestral conductors of the C20. Which US film and mainly TV actor had a father who was as great (or greater) a conductor? His son later had a successful career as a conductor and violinist. (Whereas Boehm Jnr retired from acting to do humanitarian work in Africa).
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