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tragic beauty: jayne mansfield - an analysis

“A forty-one inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee-a lot more. But most girls don’t know what to do with what they’ve got.” - Jayne Mansfield

She may have been a lot of things: sex symbol, publicity whore, desperate for fame…but whatever she was, Jayne Mansfield was not a girl who did things by halves. For a person whose IQ was said to be two points higher than Einstein’s, she sure led an interesting life. Unfortunately for her, her dreams of being a legitimate actress never came to fruition thanks to her Kardashian-like focus on publicity. She was the embodiment of pure, unadulterated, blonde ambition. But when her meteoric rise to fame inevitably just as quickly waned, she was simply “famous for being famous” as well as famous for her not-so subtle physical attributes. She was starting to find her stride again at the height of the liberating ‘60s, when attitudes about gender, sexuality and nudity were in flux. However, she never got the chance to turn her hard luck around. She was 34 when she died on a Louisiana highway at 2:15 am on June 29, 1967. And, like Susan Cabot and Ramon Novarro, her grisly death was often sensationalized, with the common theme being that she was decapitated in that June car crash that took her life. This is incorrect.

Jayne Mansfield, according to astrotheme, was an Aries sun and Aquarius moon. Originally from Pennsylvania, Mansfield’s father died of a heart attack while driving the family when Jayne was 3 years old. Eventually, Jayne’s mother would remarry and move the family from Pennsylvania to Dallas, Texas where the future actress would meet, and eventually fall in love with fellow student Paul Mansfield. In 1950, when Jayne turned 17, the couple was secretly married; when it was discovered that Jayne had become pregnant , they held a public ceremony. On November 8 of that year, her daughter Jayne Marie was born. When Paul was called up by the military for active duty during the Korean War, the star-struck Jayne would leave her infant daughter with her mother and high-tail it to California… to become a movie star. When her husband returned from Korea, he soon began to grow increasingly dissatisfied with the “new” Jayne. He would eventually leave her behind and return to Texas, their divorce becoming final in January of 1958. With her career now beginning to heat up, Jayne Mansfield would hire an aggressive new agent who stopped at nothing to get the actress in front of the press. Jayne was one of the first Playboy Playmates, landing Playmate of the Month in 1955, which garnered her more of the attention she so craved, but was looked upon negatively by those in charge of her career direction. When dropped from her studio contract, Jayne would move on to garner the lead in a Broadway sex comedy called Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?.

Shortly after this success, Mansfield met and married Hungarian-born bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay and 20th Century Fox soon signed Mansfield as a hopeful replacement for the increasingly troubled Marilyn Monroe. Mansfield’s first picture with the studio, The Girl Can’t Help It, would turn out to be one of her best. Hargitay and Mansfield had three children, Miklos Jr., Zoltan, and Mariska (Olivia Benson from Law & Order). Mansfield’s exhibitionist ways would eventually catch up with her however, when she appeared in the sleazy sexploitation movie Promises, Promises followed by another nude appearance in Playboy. The studio dropped her contract and her husband kicked her to the curb. Her sexy stunts were no longer working. She was a platinum blonde bombshell who never quite became the Hollywood star she so desperately wanted to be. In the rush to become the next Monroe, she did as well as anyone. The hunger of the studios was as desperate as the hunger of the wannabes. But it was a lost cause. Monroe was inimitable. In 1964, Jayne Mansfield would marry director Matt Cimber and the two would have a son, Anthony, Two years later, Cimber divorced Jayne and she started to drink heavily. Now seeing San Francisco attorney Samuel S. Brody. Excessively overweight and almost always drunk, Mansfield could only garner press recognition when she became involved in another drunken brawl with Brody or when she would be named in a messy divorce suit with Brody’s ailing wife. The once glamorous Jayne Mansfield was now being reduced to a Hollywood laughing stock.

In the early morning hours of June 29th, 1967, Mansfield, Brody, and driver Ron Harrison (a college student who worked for the owner of the club where Mansfield was performing), drove out in her hardtop 1966 Buick Electra 225 with her three children asleep in the backseat. She was scheduled to appear in a New Orleans morning talk show for an interview. With speeds of up to 80 mph, the car slammed underneath the back of a tractor-trailer rig, which was spraying insecticide and Jayne and the two others in the front were killed instantly, crushed to death. Her three sleeping children in the back survived with minor injuries. It is grotesquely appropriate that reports of her death are exaggerated. It is “common knowledge” that she was decapitated. The fact is her skull was cracked open. What was photographed lying by the side of the road was not her head. It was her wig. After a Beverly Hills memorial service, Jayne’s body was sent to Pen Argyle, Pennsylvania to be buried in the family plot. Mickey Hargitay was the only one of her ex-husbands to attend. During the service, a distraught Hargitay would throw himself on top of the rose-covered coffin. Most of Mansfield’s $500,000 estate would be swallowed up by creditor’s bills and lawyer’s fees. Her children would each receive less than $2,000 from the will and were raised by Hargitay and his third wife, Ellen Siano. Jayne Mansfield may not have been the movie star she wanted to be. However, she went out the way she came into Hollywood - with a bang.

Next week, I’ll analyze a tortured soul whose early death spearheaded AIDS awareness in the mainstream: Scorpio Rock Hudson.

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birthdate: April 19, 1933

major planets:

Sun: Aries

Moon: Aquarius

Rising: Cancer

Mercury: Aries

Venus: Aries

Mars: Virgo

Midheaven: Pisces

Jupiter: Virgo

Saturn: Aquarius

Uranus: Aries

Neptune: Virgo

Pluto: Cancer

Overall personality snapshot: She was where it was at, and beyond that too. But was she a self-obsessed revolutionary or a social prophet? Was she a passionate progressive or a detached onlooker? Or did she discover how to combine both through a vocation which met her need for constant challenge? She may have appeared to be self-centered but, just when everyone thought she was in it only for herself, she revealed her capacity for true friendship and interest in the needs of others. She could equally be very civilized and very selfish. She wanted to make her mark upon the world but she didn’t want to scar it in the process, though it may not believe her at first. When firing on all cylinders, and not just spouting hot air, she was original and inventive; a natural pioneer, entrepreneur and leader of progressive causes; a great improver, able to see the big picture and inspire others with a large and distinctly different vision of things. She took an active interest in anything that appealed to her maverick, heretic and non-conformist approach to life. New schemes and ideas may have been more exciting to her than the prospect of finishing what she had already started, for orderly routine was a living death for her. Being self-employed and/or doing her own thing attracted her, yet she also had a strong social sense and could work well with others, provided she was in charge. She rightly had a high opinion of her own genius, and in order to be happy she needed to be working and playing in areas where she felt free to take the initiative and pursue her observations and insights.

With her razor-sharp mind, she enjoyed an intellectual challenge, and had an ability to look at things from a different perspective. She delighted in being controversial and poking fun at the status quo. She saw herself as a go-ahead mould-breaker, an anarchist even. In film, fashion or the very way in which she expressed herself, she was drawn to the non-conformist, original and maverick, and was never happier than when out on limb arguing for a viewpoint that others did not yet share. In this she could combine courage and imagination, for she was a natural campaigner who could pursue what she believed in with a burning conviction. Friendships and social contacts were very important to her, and here as in so much of her life she could oscillate between self-interest and social concern. One moment she was being an elitist social climber, using her natural charisma and powers of persuasion to chat up the in-crowd with a cynical eye to the main chance; the next she was giving her time and energy to help the socially deprived and under-privileged. This dichotomy may have played havoc with her philosophical and political affiliations as she veered from radical liberalism to complete free-enterprise. She allowed room for both, and as such, she ended up embracing an enlightened self-interest and made friends right across the fascinating spectrum of human viewpoints. Her Arian nature dictated that she was selfish and ruthless in her pursuit of her goals. Her Aquarius nature dictated that her close personal relationships suffered for the greater need of relating to others. In her case, it manifested as relating to her fans and being respected by her peers in her acting career.

Her face had beautiful round, sensitive eyes that showed concern and innocence. Her whole appearance spoke of softness and tenderness. She may have felt overwhelmed at times by the depth of emotion that she felt. It was very healthy for her to play the mothering role, whether to a group of people, in the context of a business, or by nurturing a strongly felt cause. She was quick-witted, decisive and competitive. She liked to make an impression, and be seen as making an impression. Her enthusiasm for something that interested him was astounding. She could be quite impatient and unrealistic, especially when faced with opposition and obstacles. She was also self-willed and confident. In arguments she could be quite combative, believing that she was right. She had a hot temper that needed a firm hand. Sometimes she was a little thoughtless and quarrelsome. Her and honesty went hand in hand. She tended not to have adequate defenses against subtlety and deviousness. When it came to careers, she may have felt initially vague or confused about what she really wanted to do. She was eventually forced to give up her career of choice by events out of her control (as was evidenced by the tides turning from the “blonde bombshell” beauty ideal after the death of Marilyn Monroe). There was probably some element of self-sacrifice involved somewhere in her choice of career (the element of sacrifice being that she had to sacrifice being a more attentive mother and wife in relation to her career as an actress). She had good technical and scientific ability due to her, at times almost fanatical, attention to detail. She was also fastidious when it came to matters of health, diet and appearance. She was not afraid of work and was very resourceful and capable. She also worked well in a team. She became very annoyed if somebody else questioned the way that she operated.

She was slightly selfish and emotionally intense. Her main focus in life was to gain the security that allowed her the freedom to do as she liked. Because she was able to establish priorities and she had great determination, she usually realized her goals fairly early in life. She was willing to accept responsibility and didn’t want to depend on others for anything. She concentrated on efforts to improve her mind and would take up any intellectual pursuits that gave full rein to her imagination. She had an original mind and used every skill she possessed to gain control of her affairs. She was willing to tolerate austerity for as long as it was justified. She respected institutions for as long as they served her purpose. She had the ability to judge what was viable or important. As a member of this generation, she could be idealistic and zealous, even aggressive, if she was following a cause, and she welcomed change and progress. Flashes of inspiration caused her to investigate new and more exciting ways of doing things. She belonged to a generation with a practical and materialistic frame of mind, and which was critical of standards of religion and government. As a member of this generation, she tried to restore order where chaos and injustice ruled, although sometimes her aims and objectives were misunderstood. Changes were also experienced in the relationships between parents and children, with the ties becoming looser. In Mansfield’s case, her relationship with her eldest daughter was at times, strained at best. Was part of a generation known for its devastating social upheavals concerning home and family. The whole general pattern of family life experiences enormous changes and upheavals; as a Cancer Plutonian, this aspect is highlighted by Mansfield taking her abusive 3rd husband’s side over her eldest daughter’s when he’d beat her.

Love/sex life: She was an eager and aggressive lover who makes more noise and is more prone to brag than the typical Mars in Virgo individual. She was also more inclined to get caught up in her passions. In her case, cool-head analysis is employed only after the lovemaking is over and, quite often, after the mistake has been made. This made her a more spirited Mars in Virgo lover but not always a wiser one. She was the most energetic lover of this type and the least likely to settle for less than the best. She was constantly looking for challenges in her love life and she expected more from her relationships than mere physical gratification. She needed to be proud of her partners, to see them and herself as strong and heroic. However, this sexual egotism didn’t always make her any less expeditious in her approach to sex. She had no patience with the artificial posturing of romance and, of all the Mars in Virgo lovers; she may have been the most unabashed proponent of the “quickie”. Mansfield was an extremely ambitious woman determined to use her more than ample bosom and her unflagging appetite for publicity to achieve stardom. She used sex to gain attention and to reward men who had helped her but she was also capable of laughing at her figure and the effect it had on men. For a while her down-to-earth sexuality seemed a profitable counterpoint to her tragic and insecure competitor in the blond bombshell market, Marilyn Monroe, but Hollywood executives and audiences soon tired of Mansfield’s one note appeal and her career withered.

minor asteroids and points:

North Node: Pisces

Lilith: Taurus

Vertex: Scorpio

Fortune: Taurus

East Point: Gemini

Her North Node in Pisces dictated that she needed to develop her emotions and overall sensitivity. She needed to try to be less critical and demanding of both herself and others. Her Lilith in Taurus ensured that she was an unabashed sensualist. She was earthy, smutty, and totally without apology for her perfectly natural needs. Her gut instincts were impeccable, her libido formidable. Her sexual life-forces operated above and beyond petty morality. Her Vertex in Scorpio, 5th house dictated that she had a desire or continual need for feeling irresistible and irreplaceable on all levels of intimacy, whether spiritual, intellectual, emotional, or physical. From the fires of hell to the heights of heaven, the further and deeper the range of interaction she could experience with another the more fulfilling. She had a childlike orientation, in all of its manifestations, toward relationships on an internal level. That implicit trust, or perhaps naivete, that was instilled in our childhood persisted far into maturity. The concomitant explosions and occasional tantrums when these constructs are violated also accompany this position. She had a need for fun, creativity, and excitement in a committed relationship, no matter how many years it has endured. She often had deep fears, typical of children, of abandonment, as well as a need for universal acceptance, no matter how she acted, which she needed her partner to respect and nurture, rather than rebuke, especially in adulthood.

Her Part of Fortune in Taurus and Part of Spirit in Scorpio dictated that destiny lay in attaining personal freedom through seeking material security and comfort. Happiness and good fortune came through tangible and practical results that had a solid foundation. Her soul’s purpose lay in delving fearlessly into the unknown. She felt spiritual connections and saw the spark of the divine when she could strip away the outer layers of experiences and get to the core of a situation. East Point in Gemini dictated that she was was often insatiably curious and loved to collect little bits of (what seems to be useless) information and trivia. Her interests were quite varied, and she may have been somewhat scattered. Sometimes her curiosity could appear cold and callous as her level of objectivity was potentially high. There was usually an openness to learning in any situation.

elemental dominance:

fire

earth

She was dynamic and passionate, with strong leadership ability. She generated enormous warmth and vibrancy. She was exciting to be around, because she was genuinely enthusiastic and usually friendly. However, she could either be harnessed into helpful energy or flame up and cause destruction. Ultimately, she chose the latter. Confident and opinionated, she was fond of declarative statements such as “I will do this” or “It’s this way.” When out of control—usually because she was bored, or hadn’t been acknowledged—she was bossy, demanding, and even tyrannical. But at her best, her confidence and vision inspired others to conquer new territory in the world, in society, and in themselves. She was a practical, reliable woman and could provide structure and protection. She was oriented toward practical experience and thought in terms doing rather than thinking, feeling, or imagining. Could be materialistic, unimaginative, and resistant to change. But at her best, she provided the practical resources, analysis, and leadership to make dreams come true.

modality dominance:

cardinal

She was happiest when she was doing anything new, and she loved to begin new ventures. She enjoyed the challenge of claiming territory. She tended to be an initiator—and a bit territorial as well. Also, she had a tendency to start more things than she could possibly finish.

house dominants:

11th

3rd

9th

Globally aware, she put emphasis on her friends and acquaintances, as well as the influence of groups and societies on her life. Her general hopes and aspirations revealed themselves, as well as how well she functioned as part of a system. This extended to how she manifested her creativity against the background of the community. Short journeys, traveling within her own country were themes throughout her life; her immediate environment, and relationships with her siblings, neighbours and friends were of importance. The way her mental processes operated, as well as the manner and style in which she communicated was emphasized in her life. As such, much was revealed about her schooling and childhood and adolescence. Traveling, whether physically across the globe, on a mental plane or expanding through study was a major theme in her life. She was not only concerned with learning facts, but also wanted to understand the connections formed between them and the philosophies and concepts they stand for. Her conscience, as well as foreign travel, people and places was also of paramount importance in her life, as is evidenced in her bigger popularity overseas as opposed to America.

planet dominants:

Jupiter

Moon

Neptune

She had luck, and believed in expansion, integration, and growth. She could also be excessive and lazy. She reached out beyond herself and expanded her consciousness. She loved travel, was fairly religious, and liked to integrate herself into the larger social order—church or religion, community, and corporation. She had intellectual and spiritual interests in the most. She was defined by her inner world; by her emotional reactions to situations, how emotions flowed through her, motivating and compelling her—or limiting her and holding her back. She held great capacity to become a part of the whole rather than attempting to master the parts. She wanted to become whatever it is that she sought. She was of a contemplative nature, particularly receptive to ambiances, places, and people. She gladly cultivated the art of letting go, and allowed the natural unfolding of events to construct her world. She followed her inspirations, for better or for worse.

sign dominants:

Aries

Virgo

Aquarius

She was a physically oriented individual who took pride in her body. She was bold, courageous, and resourceful. She always seemed to know what she believed, what she wanted from life, and where she was going. She could be dynamic and aggressive (sometimes, to a fault) in pursuing her goals—whatever they might be. Could be argumentative, lacked tact, and had a bad temper. On the other hand, her anger rarely lasted long, and she could be warm and loving with those she cared about. She was a discriminating, attractive, thorough, scientific, hygienic, humane, scientific woman and had the highest standards. Her attention to detail was second to none and she had a deeply penetrative and investigative mind. She was an original thinker, often eccentric, who prized individuality and freedom above all else. Her compassion, while genuine, rose from the intellect rather than the heart. She was hard to figure out because she was so often a paradox. She was patient but impatient; a nonconformist who conformed when it suited her; rebellious but peace-loving; stubborn and yet compliant when she wanted to be. She chafed at the restrictions placed upon her by society and sought to follow her own path.

Read more about her under the cut.

One of the leading sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, film actress Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer on April 19, 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, to Vera J. and Herbert W. Palmer. Her parents were well-to-do, with her father a successful attorney in Phillipburg, New Jersey, where Jayne began her girlhood. Her parents were both born with the same surname, and her ancestry was seven eighths British Isles (English and Cornish) and one eighth German. Jayne was a talented pianist and violin player as a child. Tragedy struck when Jayne was three, when her father suddenly died of a heart attack. Three years later, her mother remarried and the family moved south to Dallas, Texas. The family bought a little home where she had violin concerts in the driveway of their home. Up until the move, Jayne had no aspirations of being a star, but with maturity and the fact that she devoured the fan magazines of the day convinced her to try acting. Amazingly, her I.Q. was reported to be a 163, and she attended the University of Dallas and participated in little-theatre productions. In 1949, at age sixteen, she married a man five years her senior named Paul Mansfield, the next year when Jayne was seventeen. Their daughter, Jayne Marie Mansfield, was born in November. After some productions there and elsewhere, Jayne decided to go to Hollywood. Her first film was a bit role as a cigarette girl in Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955). Although the roles in the beginning were not much, she was successful in gaining those roles because of her ample physical attributes which placed her in two other films that year, Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) and Illegal (1955). Her breakout role came the next year with a featured part in The Burglar (1957). By the time she portrayed Rita Marlowe in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) and Playgirl After Dark (1960), Jayne was now known as the poor man’s Marilyn Monroe. She did not get the plum roles that Marilyn got in her productions. Instead, Jayne’s films were more of a showcase for her body more than anything else. Jayne did have a real talent for acting, but the movie executives insisted she stay in her dumb blonde stereotype roles. For the balance of her career, Jayne never received any standout performances although she was more than capable of doing them. By the 1960s, Mansfield’s career had options that grew lower. She made somewhat embarrassing guest appearances like on the popular game show “What’s My Line?” (1950), she appeared on the show four times in 1956, 1957, 1964, and 1966 and many other 1950s and 1960s game shows. By 1962, she was dropped from 20th Century Fox and the rest of her career had smaller options like being in B movies and low budget movies or performing at food stores or small nightclubs. While traveling from a nightclub in Biloxi, Mississippi and 30 miles from New Orleans to where she was to be on television the following day, she was killed instantly on Highway 90 in a car crash in the early hours of June 29, 1967, when the car in which she was riding in slammed into the back of a semi-tractor trailer truck that had stopped due to a truck in front of the tractor trailer that was spraying for bugs, and the car in which she was riding went under the truck at nearly 80 miles per hour along with boyfriend Samuel Brody and their driver Ronnie Harrison. The damage to the car was so bad that the engine was twisted sideways. The beautiful woman who starred in 31 movies, the woman who fought so hard for respect, the woman who, in her own right, was a very good actress, was dead at age 34. Mansfield’s funeral was on July 3, 1967, a small ceremony which her family, first child, and second husband Mickey Hargitay attended the same place in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, where her father was buried. Her final film, Single Room Furnished (1966), was released the following year of her death. Jayne Mansfield’s fame lives on in the success of her best movies, her documentary film appearances, her 22 television appearances, and in the career of her fourth child, actress Mariska Hargitay who plays Olivia Benson on the popular NBC crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. (x)

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“It was a successful holiday. The kids had a good time and there were lots of presents. Zoltan got special treatment of course, as well as a robot, a bat, baseballs, a kickstand for his bike and plenty of other things. Jayne was happy to have Zoltan home and happy to have been on the front page for three weeks. She wasn’t callous about Zoltan’s injury. She was terribly upset, but it was natural for her to think of telling the press. She was accustomed to reading about herself and she knew the public would be interested. The news was made, and Jayne wasn’t going to suppress it. She had worked for years to become news and her reward was having the press cooperate with her. There were pictures of Jayne and Zoltan, Jayne, Sam and Jayne, Mickey and Jayne and Zoltan, Jayne and Zoltan on the front pages of newspapers all across the country. Jayne’s grief was transcontinental.”

/ From Jayne Mansfield and the American Fifties by Martha Saxton (1975) /

Pictured: Christmas day 1966 at the Pink Palace, Jayne Mansfield’s final Christmas. (Her fatal car crash was in June 1967). On 27 November 1966 Mansfield and her children were visiting Jungleland USA, a zoo and theme park in the San Fernando Valley, when in a freak accident her six-year-old son Zoltan was severely mauled by a lion. After surgery and weeks of recuperation, Zoltan was allowed home on Christmas morning to be greeted by a twenty-foot tree, a towering mound of gifts and – and perhaps inevitably – a houseful of photographers and journalists. As Mansfield’s most recent biographer Eve Golden recalls in The Girl Couldn’t Help It (2021), “A reporter asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, and Zoltan – his mother’s son when it came to a good quip – told him, “A lion tamer.””

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enjoying-entertainment · 7 years

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#mickey hargitay #Mickey hargitay Jr #Zoltan hargitay #jayne mansfield #jayne marie mansfield

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classicfilmfan64 · 4 years

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Toward the end of her short life, in 1966, Jayne Mansfield started to hang out with and some say was dating/sleeping with, Anton LaVey, the infamous leader of 'The Church Of Satan'. I saw the 'Mansfield 66/67' documentary. He seemed to be a shameless bullshitter and self-promoter, and so was she, so they got along well, for a time. For a short time, Sammy Davis, Jr. followed LaVey's b.s., too, LaVay loved the Hollywood connection. Toward the end of her short life, in 1966, Jayne Mansfield started to hang out with and some say was dating/sleeping with, Anton LaVey, the infamous leader of 'The Church Of Satan'. I saw the 'Mansfield 66/67' documentary. He seemed to be a shameless bullshitter and self-promoter, and so was she, so they got along well, for a time. For a short time, Sammy Davis, Jr. followed LaVey's b.s., too, LaVay loved the Hollywood connection. Jayne died in a car crash, in 1967, her kids, including Mariska Hargitay, were asleep, in the back seat, lying down. They had cuts and bruises.

FROM THE WEB:' The recent documentary, 'Mansfield 66/67' tracks the bizarre and tragic events that occurred after the actress began associating with Anton LaVey, the high priest of the Church of Satan. After LaVey supposedly put a curse on Mansfield’s then-boyfriend, Sam Brody, her divorce attorney, and de facto manager, a series of misfortunes beset them. Mansfield’s son Zoltan got mauled by a lion, and Brody was in a string of car accidents, with the couple and their driver dying in a horrific crash less than a year after meeting LaVey.LaVey, who painted his Victorian house in San Francisco black and wore outlandish costumes with plastic horns and a cape, was not a true, dictionary-definition Satanist—the Church of Satan, which he founded in 1966, does not believe in the Devil, or in the Christian or Islamic conception of Satan—but rather an inflammatory figure who espoused individualism, pleasure, and self-preservation. He drew aesthetic inspiration from horror films and The Munsters, and he established 'The Church of Satan, Inc.', with a publicist in tow.'

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Tony Cimber Married, Daughter, Net Worth, Siblings, Facts, Wiki-Bio

Born Name Antonio Raphael Ottaviano Cimber Birth Place Los Angeles, California, United States Height 6 feet Eye Color Blue Zodiac Sign Libra Nationality American Ethnicity White Profession Actor Net Worth $400 Thousand Age 53 years old Sibling Zoltan Hargitay, Mickey Hargitay Jr. Venico Cimber,Jayne Marie Mansfield, Mariska Hargitay, and Katie Cimber Parents Matt Cimber and Jayne Mansfield

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Jayne Mansfield Dies in New Orleans Car Crash

uncredited writer, The New York Times, 30 June 1967

Jayne Mansfield, the actress, was killed instantly early this morning when the car in which she was riding hit the rear of a trailer truck on U.S. 90.

Killed with the 34-year-old performer were Samuel S. Brody, 40, of Los Angeles, her lawyer and companion, and Ronald B. Harrison, 20, of Mississippi City, Miss., a driver for the Gus Stevens Dinner Club in Biloxi, Miss., where Miss Mansfield was appearing.

Their auto plowed beneath the truck’s trailer as it approached a mosquito-fogging machine. The driver apparently did not see the truck because of the thick white chemical used to spray mosquitoes, the police said.

Three of Miss Mansfield’s children, apparently sleeping on the rear seat were injured. They were Mickey Hargitay Jr., 8, who suffered cuts and a broken arm; Zoltan Hargitay, 6, who received cuts and bruises, and Marie Hargitay, who had head cuts and may require plastic surgery.

The children were taken to Charity Hospital by a passing motorist but were transferred to Ochsner Foundation Hospital at the request of Miss Mansfield’s former husband, Mickey Hargitay, who telephoned from Los Angeles. Mr. Hargitay arrived this afternoon to be with his children, who were later told of their mother’s death.

Miss Mansfield had been playing the engagement in Biloxi, 80 miles from New Orleans, since June 23. She had left the club after an 11 P.M. performance Wednesday and was on her way to New Orleans for a television appearance at noon Thursday.

A Figure on Display ‘‘To establish yourself as an actress,” Jayne Mansfield once told an interviewer, “you have to become well known. A girl just starting out, I would tell her to concentrate on acting, but she doesn’t have to go around wearing blankets.”

Miss Mansfield didn’t. Her statuesque figure, topped by flowing, platinum blonde tresses and a provocative smile, was cheerfully and generously displayed in films, in newspaper and magazine photographs and on television.

This strategic avalanche of publicity made her one of the best-known glamour symbols of the last 10 years. Her unusual dimensions, 40-18-35, certainly helped.

“I’ve got to be a movie star. I’ve just got to make it,” she told an interviewer soon after arriving in Hollywood in 1954. “I’ve got to be a movie star.” It took a while for her to succeed, bat off-screen she played the role to the hilt.

She resided in a huge, pink mansion off Sunset Boulevard that became a tourist attraction, happily splashed for photographers in a heart-shaped pool and drove a pink car around the movie capital.

Her actual screen career consisted of about a dozen films, few of them memorable. She invariably played the role of a none-too-bright blonde who was victimized by unsavory characters.

Vera Jayne Palmer was bo on April 19, 1933, in Bryn Mawr, Pa., the daughter of a lawyer. Her father died when she was 6 and she and her mother moved to Dallas. She later enrolled in Southern Methodist University, where she met and was married to a fellow student, Paul James Mansfield. She was 16 at the time and the following year, her daughter Jayne Marie was born. The Mansfields moved to Los Angeles and the young wife began making the studio rounds.

She had little success. As a candy vender in a movie theater, she got a small part in one television play that Kid to a bit role in a film called Female Jungle.

After hiring an agent and a publicity manager, she went on a promotional trip to Florida to help publicize a film titled Underwater.

Photographs of the blonde Miss Mansfield in a red bathing suit all but put Jane Russell, the star of the movie, out of sight.

“I wanted to be a movie star ever since I was 3,” Miss Mansfield said. “They told me I’d be another Shirley Temple, but I guess I outgrew it.”

A deluge of revealing photographs soon flooded Hollywood and caught the eye of George Axelrod, playwright, who was casting Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? for Broadway.

Miss Mansfield's playing of a voluptuous dumb movie star who captivates a milquetoast screenwriter, played by Orson Bean, was largely responsible for the comedy’s run of 452 performances on Broadway. It opened in October, 1955, at the Broadhurst Theater.

During her nightly appearances, memorable for one scene in which she appeared only in a white towel, the baby-faced actress also managed to perfect an enticing, soft-voiced coo punctuated with squeals.

Her publicity campaign continued and she returned to Hollywood in triumph. Previously, she had been seen briefly in Illegal, Pete Kelley’s Blues contract at 20th Century-Fox, where she did the movie version of Rock Hunter, and The Wayward Bus, The Girl Can’t Help It and Kiss Them for Me.

Her performance in the 1957 version of John Steinbeck’s The Wayward Bus, in which she played a wistful derelict, was generally conceded to have been her best acting.

In 1958, the actress divorced her first husband and was married to Mickey Hargitay, a former Mr. Universe. The wedding was attended primarily by a small army of press representatives. In 1963, Miss Mansfield obtained a Mexican divorce from Mr. Hargitay, by whom she had had three children.

Her third husband was Matt Cimber, a director, to whom she was wed in 1964. They were divorced last year. The actress was awarded custody of their child, Octabiano, now 2.

Two of Miss Mansfield's children were in the news recently. Last year Zoltan was mauled by a lion as the actress posed for pictures in a California animal compound. Two weeks ago, Jayne Marie went to the police and reported mistreatment at home. She was put in protective custody of juvenile authorities and released to relatives.

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Jayne Mansfield: The First Reality Star?

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Jayne Mansfield: The First Reality Star?

On the 50th anniversary of her death, a look back by a Broadway actor at what a generation of stars (and Kardashians) owes the shrewd and extravagant trailblazer.

For broadcast journalist Elaine Stevens, now 68, it feels like it happened only yesterday. In fact, it happened exactly 50 years ago today.

Stevens answered the door to her parents’ Gulfport, Mississippi home. Her fiance, Ronnie Harrison, stood before her. Describing him today, Stevens still sounds 18: “He looked like Matthew Modine or Ralph Fiennes.” The couple was planning to elope three days later; Stevens was carrying their child. “The last thing he said to me was, ‘Will you always love me?’ And I said, ‘Of course I will. I’ll always love you.’”

That was the last time they ever saw each other.

Two hours later and 500 miles away, another woman, Vera Peers, awoke in a panic. Her daughter, Jayne Mansfield, had appeared to her in a dream. Standing atop a large, white stairwell, she was screaming, “Mama, I have a story to tell you. You have many steps to go. I’m at the top now, but I’ll be waiting for you.”

Vera awoke to the shriek of a police car’s wheels at her front door.

Jayne Mansfield, 34, movie star, mother and mother of invention, was gone, dead from a car crash on Highway 90 in Slidell, Louisiana en route to New Orleans. Also killed with her were her attorney, Sam Brody, and their driver, Stevens’ fiance, Ronnie Harrison. All three children in the car — Mickey Jr., Zoltan and Mariska Hargitay — survived.

***

Jayne Mansfield was nobody’s fool. The world’s smartest dumb blonde appeared in 27 films (only a handful of them memorable). But her bid for immortality lives on in a thriving, “famous-for-being-famous” culture she helped to create.

Before stars could reach millions of followers in 140 characters and 60 seconds or less, Twitter’s equivalent had a name: Hedda Hopper. Facebook, too, had one: Louella Parsons. These, along with a dozen other syndicated Hollywood power brokers, formed a mainline to the heart of the American people. And Jayne was their pied piper, adept as any modern-day social media maven at keeping herself in the public eye.

In fact, if it weren’t for Mansfield then, there would likely be no Kardashians today.

***

Mansfield’s leverage of the press was never more potent than in 1957, when she seemed poised to take over the world.

Borrowing the test-driven public persona of Marilyn Monroe, Mansfield beat out Monroe herself in popularity polls. She had four major features under her belt, and Twentieth Century Fox estimated her worth at $40,000,000 ($350,000,000 today). Mansfield’s name was “magic at the box office,” Parsons wrote.

On tour with Bob Hope, Mansfield brought 100,000 servicemen to their feet (co-star Neile Adams remembers her “in a bikini in Alaska in 20-degree weather”). Mansfield’s impact on men was likened to that of Elvis Presley’s on women, leaving riots in her wake. She had, as columnist Walter Winchell put it, “the world in the palm of her little pink hand.”

So why is Jayne Mansfield barely remembered today?

The answer may lie in a single item that appeared in Hopper’s column at the turn of 1957: “Jayne Mansfield is pushing ahead too rapidly.”

In fact, she was pushing 60 years ahead of her time.

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Less than three years before her meteoric rise, Mansfield, 20, left Texas for Hollywood with husband Paul and their first child, baby Jayne Marie, in tow.

Growing up, Vera Jayne Palmer was a violin and piano prodigy; her instructors felt she would someday conquer Carnegie Hall. She spoke five languages and boasted an IQ of 163. At one of three colleges she would attend, Jayne (she dropped the “Vera”) studied chemistry, abnormal psychology and drama — a seeming recipe for success in Hollywood.

In Dallas, where she lived for a time with her husband, Jayne studied with Baruch Lumet — celebrated Yiddish Theatre actor and father of director Sidney Lumet — who directed her in a “perfect” performance of Death of a Salesman. The Seagull was one of her favorites, and she longed to play Blanche DuBois.

Texas journalist John Bustin, who had known Mansfield since her theatrical debut in Austin Civic Theatre’s Ten Nights in a Bar-room in 1951, wrote of her potential in 1954: “She might prove bigger than, say, Jane Russell in a couple years.”

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In January 1955, Mansfield scored a plus-one to a press junket for Howard Hughes’ Underwater starring Jane Russell. Outfitted in a skintight red lamé swimsuit, Mansfield dove into a pool and, according to journalists, “had the genius to permit her bathing suit to split open.”

Overnight, Mansfield’s image was plastered across America as “Marilyn Monroe, king-sized.” In a Person to Person interview broadcast live before 20 million, Edward R. Murrow inquired about the wardrobe malfunction — to which Jayne replied innocently, “I don’t remember the incident.”

“Ever since Underwater, the press just adopted her,” says Ray Strait, 93, Mansfield’s former press secretary and biographer. Actually, it was Mansfield who hacked the system: Tapping into a sweet spot of marketing known as “optimal newness,” she presented a brand that was an ideal blend of both originality and derivation — a replica of Monroe who went just a bit further.

***

Warner Bros. signed her briefly, marketing her as their “threat to Marilyn Monroe.” She tested for Rebel Without A Cause (Natalie Wood got the part), booked small roles (including an echo of Monroe’s breakout role in Asphalt Jungle in a film called Illegal) and posed for Playboy.

Paul Mansfield, recognizing that he would always be second choice to his wife’s career, filed for divorce and custody of their daughter. Jayne claimed Paul was jealous of her Chihuahua — and won. It turned out that flying solo worked to her advantage.

While men had always fancied Mansfield, women now sympathized with her. She became, ostensibly, the first sex symbol to wipe Freud’s “Madonna-whore complex” from the psyche of millions of American men. After all, who could fault a single mother who posed nude for Playboy “to pay for milk and food for the baby”?

***

Mansfield kept her last name but lost her Warner’s contract. It wasn’t long, though, before lightning struck again.

Headlines blared “Marilyn Monroe Is Due for Surprise” when Mansfield conquered Broadway in 1955’s Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Aping Monroe, she snagged a Theatre World Award and raves for her performance as a blonde movie queen. Her costar Orson Bean, 88, recalls fondly: “It became a hit because of Mansfield and all the publicity. She is the only performer who was on the cover of Life magazine twice in one year!”

Indeed, every day became Underwater for Jayne. In addition to managing motherhood, a melange of pets and a full-time show schedule, she orchestrated three to five personal appearances, photo shoots, interviews and endorsements per day. “I’m serving a kind of internship here,” she said. Actually, she was building an empire.

***

With Monroe sitting strike at Fox (she sought greater creative and financial control over her work), it wasn’t long before the studio sent scouts to size up Mansfield. Fox gave her a powerful launch, producing Mansfield’s most significant body of work — The Girl Can’t Help It, the film version of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and The Wayward Bus — in the first year of her contract. With strong reviews and respectable box office sales, Mansfield earned a Golden Globe Award, fulfilling Parsons’ prophecy that, in 1956, it would be “Mansfield to win, Loren to place, Monroe to show.”

Fox had signed Mansfield as a bargaining chip in the face of Monroe’s insubordination. But what the studio hadn’t counted on was that their new star would display a defiance all her own.

***

Like other sex symbols of her era, Mansfield was encouraged to date within the studio’s stable and not have children, a mandate to which she agreed — initially: “Too many Hollywood stars are getting married too fast,” she quipped in 1956. “I’ll devote myself to work during this seven-year contract. After that, I can have four kids. This town was built on glamour, not babies.”

A little over a year later, however, she married former Mr. Universe Mickey Hargitay. Despite her proclaimed wish for “a quiet, dignified” wedding, 90 percent of her guests were newspapermen — and an estimated 8,000 spectators turned up after she revealed the locale, the glass-paneled Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, in the papers.

In short order, the second of Mansfield’s five children was on the way. Her embrace of motherhood set a precedent for other leading ladies, becoming an expression of her femininity rather than a deterrent. Nevertheless, pregnancy did not sit well with the Fox image factory, and it cost Mansfield roles.

***

As Monroe came back into the fold at Fox, Mansfield bucked the studio’s publicity machine and engineered stunts to gain traction. One event in particular branded her in public memory.

“The party was in full swing when Jayne arrived,” recalls Mitzi Gaynor, “gorgeous and at her most platinum. It was one of those oh-so-showbiz moments when the whole room seems to stop for an instant. She sensed it, seized the opportunity and the rest is history.”

The soiree at Romanoff’s, celebrating Sophia Loren’s American debut, became something of a coming-out party for Mansfield’s decolletage instead. While Mansfield denied any premeditation — or even awareness — of the spillage, friend and fellow contract player Robert Wagner remembers differently. He laughs when recalling how he spotted the “sweet and marvelous” star, whom he often accompanied to premieres, from his car at a red light en route to the party. “I see her in her car, and she’s putting rouge on her nipples!”

The girl couldn’t help it.

***

Fox was beside itself. Stars were meant to be unattainable; a movie ticket was the price of access. Mansfield, however, “would open a cracker box if she thought it would get the press there,” recalls Strait. “She had to have that spotlight all the time.”

The consequences of this pursuit began to reveal themselves in the columns of those who’d helped launch her career: “She has been far too accessible to every lensman, scribe and high school reporter,” barked columnist Dorothy Kilgallen.

If the studio couldn’t shake her of the habit, it could punish her — and did. At $200,000 per picture, Fox loaned Mansfield out to studios overseas while retaining her services at $1,250 per week. The quality of her films diminished, as did her cachet.

***

Fond of telling reporters, “If you’re going to be a movie star, you should live like one,” Mansfield fulfilled the fantasy by purchasing a Sunset Boulevard palazzo in 1958 and re-christening it “The Pink Palace.” She actually preferred purple, but since Columbia chief Harry Cohn had already dubbed Kim Novak “the lavender blonde,” Mansfield exhibited her branding genius — again. “Now I had a gimmick,” she declared, replete with matching pink car, furs and poodle.

With the Palace came mounting expenses, and Jayne’s business acumen kicked into high(er) gear.

As one of Las Vegas’s first — and highest-paid — female headliners, she earned $200,000 for 10 weeks of work: Fox’s loan-out fee for an entire motion picture. She built an adjunct career leveraging her notoriety in exchange for cash, food and furnishings for her family and menagerie of pets — to the tune of $10,000 per ribbon cutting. A 1961 Associated Press headline trumpeted her ingenuity: “She has found a way to capitalize on fame which may create an entirely new kind of star. There’s not much to the part, but the pay is spectacular.”

“To merchandise her popularity outside of films, she did exactly what she should’ve done,” notes Derek Thompson, author of the bestselling Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction. “As tastes changed at the gatekeeper level, she went directly to the people. She was innovative because she had to be.” For Mansfield, the motivation was simple: “I turned $2,000,000 worth of publicity into $300,000 cold cash. That was my objective. It still is.”

Once again, she hacked the system.

***

And then in 1962, the world changed. Marilyn Monroe was dead — and with her passing, the era of the blonde bombshell was over.

The day of Monroe’s death, a tiny item ran in the papers indicating that Mansfield had been dropped from Fox. The perfect storm that had brought her to the studio had now taken her from it.

The day after Monroe’s passing, it was reported that Mansfield was separating from Mickey Hargitay, whom many considered to be her Rock of Gibraltar. She told reporters before telling him.

***

If Mansfield had hacked the system in the ’50s, she would crash it in the ’60s. She had spent years “out-Monroe-ing Monroe.” Now she was determined to out-Mansfield Mansfield.

After telling columnist Earl Wilson that “nudity just doesn’t mix well with motherhood,” she starred in Promises, Promises — breaking ground as the first major star to appear in a nude scene onscreen. While Mansfield’s appearance in the film kicked open doors that would be entered by countless actresses after her, it also ruptured a social contract she had worked hard to maintain — that of “accidental exposure.”

Again, there was method to her madness: Contradiction, by design or caprice, had been her call-in-trade since the dawn of her career. It was typical for Mansfield to tell reporters “I’m through with cheesecake” before crossing a busy intersection in a leopard-print bikini, causing a three-car pileup. “I’m done with publicity,” she alerted the press at a Catholic funeral service held for her pet Chihuahua, Galina.

There was likely a genuine desire behind all of these statements — but there was also an intrinsic understanding that when audiences grow habituated to a product, that product grows obsolete. The solution, then, was dishabituation — the deliberate disturbance of audience expectation. Madonna may have mastered it, but Mansfield started it.

***

A funny thing happened after Promises, Promises. Jayne had shown audiences more and now they expected more — at a lower price. While she continued making films, touring with a nightclub act and even starring in plays, public interest shifted almost entirely from the roles she played to the person she had become. Referring to herself as “a goldfish,” Jayne’s medium, at last, became her message.

“She can sell newspapers and magazines, attract millions of television viewers and draw crowds everywhere she goes,” wrote a Canadian journalist, “but at the movies, she’s a big bust… It could be that the public got so much of Jayne Mansfield for free that paying for the same privilege was too much.” Another critic asked, “She acts? Who cares?”

***

Mansfield told Parsons in 1956, “I want to be a great actress.” But shortly afterward, she told rival columnist Sheila Graham, “The real stars are not good actors or actresses. They’re personalities.” The conflict illustrated by these statements was one with which Mansfield wrestled for the entirety of her career.

On a whistle-stop promotional tour for the film adaptation of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Jayne began telling journalists that, more than anything, she wanted to play Hamlet. They thought she was joking.

After meeting Mansfield in 1957, Love Boat and Mary Tyler Moore Show star Gavin MacLeod, 86, recalls a fortuitous encounter with Ben Bard, director of new talent development at Fox. Bard — who had molded stars as diverse as Alan Ladd, Mickey Rooney and Olivia de Havilland — told MacLeod in no uncertain terms, “Jayne Mansfield was the best Hamlet I ever saw.”

***

Mansfield once said of herself and television, “we were meant for each other.”

Co-stars from her earliest appearances, from Carol Burnett to Jamie Farr, remember her with great fondness, and she remained a prolific presence on talk shows in later years. Hairdresser-cum-song stylist Monti Rock III, who appeared with Mansfield on a memorable episdoe of The Merv Griffin Show, remembers the “extraordinary, incredible lady” who took him under her wing: “She taught me about the importance of the press,” he recalls. “It took someone like Jayne to help me understand who I was: I was famous for being famous.”

Notes P. David Ebersole who, with Todd Hughes, co-directed the upcoming documentary, Mansfield 66/67, “She really was the first star to create the idea that the public needed to know who you are — not just the public persona, but behind closed doors.”

Toward that end, in 1965, Mansfield produced and starred in a pilot playing an actress who wants to do Shakespeare — but settles for playing Jayne Mansfield instead. Part sitcom, part proto-reality show, The Jayne Mansfield Show seemed a natural fit for the actress who had already surrendered a good portion of her private life to public consumption. Thirty years ahead of its time, it was quietly shelved by NBC.

***

“By today’s standards, her act was extremely tame,” recalls Stevens, whose fiance died with Mansfield in that fatal car crash. “But at that time, she was like the original Lady Gaga. She had a brand, and it was called ‘Jayne Mansfield.’ And, like most women of her day, she did what she had to do to keep her family fed.”

Stevens, author of the forthcoming memoir, Mermaid in the Window, still finds the events of 1967 “extremely painful.” After the crash, she was forced to give up her child for adoption. It would be more than 30 years before Stevens would see her daughter again. When the two reunited in 1999, “It was just remarkable seeing part of Ronnie walk the earth again.”

Stevens feels that reporters at the accident site were “a precursor to the paparazzi fascination with [Princess] Diana,” heralding a deeper dive into an era of no-holds-barred journalism in which Mansfield, regrettably, had a stake.

***

Mansfield’s film work never did engage the public in the way that Marilyn Monroe’s had (few ever would). While Marilyn was unattainable, Jayne was entirely available. There was little for audiences to chase, so Mansfield chased them instead.

A 1967 Los Angeles Times elegy concluded that her ingenuousness led her to confuse “publicity and notoriety, stardom and celebrity.” Joe Schoenfeld, then-editor of Daily Variety, added that Mansfield had “won what our culture has instructed her to achieve. And don’t sell her achievement short.”

In 1964, she even engaged in a publicity campaign called Jayne Mansfield For President. Who knows? In today’s world, she might have won.

Erik Liberman currently appears in Broadway’s War Paint and is co-author of the upcoming book Luminous Life (New World Library, 2018).

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