PLAYBOY US 1957 02 FEBRUARY JAYNE MANSFIELD JAZZ THE 1957 PLAYBOY ALL-STARS SALLY TODD

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While attending the University of Texas at Austin, Mansfield won several beauty contests, including Miss Photoflash, Miss Magnesium Lamp, and Miss Fire Prevention Week. S. - Body of the letter or document is in another hand, but piece is signed by the person of interest. Masons, a punk band from Tucson, Arizona, toured in 2000 playing three songs dedicated to her—"Bombshell", "Crash My Car" and "The Witch". Robert Jason, Fernand Aubrey, Monte Duro, Lino Enner, Brigitte Halberg, Bob Oliver, Rocky Roberts, Lila Solh, Carolyn De Fonseca, Mickey Hargitay Jr.

Newspapers in the 1950s routinely published Mansfield’s body measurements, which once led evangelist Billy Graham to exclaim, “This country knows more about Jayne Mansfield’s statistics than the Second Commandment. In the film Leprechaun 2 (1994), directed by Rodman Flender, a character degrades the leprechaun by saying, "If hearing the actual sound of Jayne Mansfield's head being severed from her body is too intense for you, well then, you know, more power to ya. Sales tax will be charged for Maryland residents, unless a resale certificate is submitted to us prior to any payment.These include: Jayne Mansfield (May Mann; Pocket; 1974), Jayne Mansfield: A biography (May Mann; Abelard-Schuman; 1974), The tragic secret life of Jayne Mansfield (Raymond Strait; Regnery; 1974), Jayne Mansfield and the American fifties (Martha Saxton; Houghton Mifflin; 1975), Jayne Mansfield (Jean-Pierre Jackson; Edilig; 1984), Sexbomb: The Life and Death of Jayne Mansfield (Guus Luitjters, Gerard Timmer; Citadel; 1988), Here They Are Jayne Mansfield (Raymond Strait, S. Before filming began, Mansfield said she would not "share any screen time with the drive-in's answer to Marilyn Monroe", meaning Van Doren.

In her later career, Mansfield was cast as the next Marilyn Monroe, because she very closely resembled Monroe in looks and how she presented herself. Her film career was short-lived, but she had several box-office successes and won a Theatre World Award and a Golden Globe Award. Fox launched its new blonde bombshell with a North American tour and a 40-day, 16-country tour of Europe.

Early in her career, some advertisers considered her prominent breasts undesirable, which led to her losing her first professional assignment – a commercial for General Electric that depicted young women in bathing suits relaxing around a pool. Mansfield took her professional name from her first husband, public-relations professional Paul Mansfield.

Lewis informed her that she was wasting her “obvious talents” and had her come back a week later to perform the piano scene from The Seven Year Itch. In Lynda Curnyn's novel Bombshell (2004), the character Grace is advised not to become a Jayne Mansfield when it is suspected that she is pregnant without a boyfriend or a husband. Photos from that pictorial was reprinted in a number of Playboy issues, including: December 1965 ("The Playboy Portfolio of Sex Stars"), January 1979 ("25 Beautiful Years"), January 1984 ("30 Memorable Years"), January 1989 ("Women of the Fifties"), January 1994 ("Remember Jayne"), November 1996 ("Playboy Gallery"), August 1999 ("Playboy's Sex Stars of the Century"; Special edition), and January 2000 ("Centerfolds of the Century"). Despite career setbacks, she remained a highly visible celebrity during the early 1960s through her publicity antics and stage performances.On February 14, 2006, VCI Video released the film on DVD with extras such as original trailers and a gallery of stills from the Playboy issue along with never before released lobby cards. Afterward, she dyed her hair platinum blonde to compete with the star of the moment: Marilyn Monroe.