Jayne Marie Mansfield
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Jayne Marie Mansfield is the eldest daughter of 1950s Hollywood sex symbol and Playboy
Playmate Jayne Mansfield
, who became the first daughter of a Playmate to be a featured model. The record was made in the magazine's July 1976 issue, and, to date only one other daughter of a Playmate has been featured in the magazine. She also is the only model who was featured as 100 Beautiful Women along with her mother in the magazine's 1988 special issue. She has acted in the film Olly, Olly, Oxen Free
and TV production Blond in Hollywood.
. Hooker made the pictorial in a vintage Southern
context, including monochromatic
images. The accompanying text makes a comparison to her mother and the differences between the two, though Jayne Marie said in an interview that she is "not capitalizing on her bosom as (my) mother did" for the pictorial. In describing her art historian Anthony W. Lee together with photogrpher Diane Arbus
wrote, "Jayne Marie Mansfield has her mother's rounded features and mysterious eyes."
An image of Jayne Marie from the pictorial appears in Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste by John Waters
(Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005), which has a section dedicated to star daughters. The pictorial also appeared on the Playboy Newsstand Special titled Blonds Brunettes Redheads (also featured Claudia Ohana, Loretta Martin, Francoise Gayat and Shannon Tweed
) in 1985, and the September 1976 issue of A Revista do Homem, the Brazilian version of Playboy (also featuring Vera Manhães).
Jayne Marie Mansfield was featured in the Playboy a second time in December of the same year, as one of the "sex stars of 1976" and this time photographed by Arthur Knight, and a third time in a feature titled Playmate Reunion in the April 1980 issue of the magazine. The issue also featured among other Cyndi Wood, Monique St. Pierre, Sondra Theodore
, Carol Vitale, Dolly Read, and Candy Loving
, as well as Hugh Hefner
, the printer, editor and publisher of magazine.
The credit for the first Playmates of the Month whose mother was another Playmate of the Month goes to Simone Eden, from the February 1989 issue, whose mother, Carol Eden
, was on the centerfold in December 1960. The credit for the first daughters to appear together with the mother goes to Dawn and Shannon Davis who appeared on August 1993 issues with their mother Tamara Davis. That Arny Freytag
pictorial was titled Like Mother, Like Daughters after the title for a 1968 movie featuring Playmate Victoria Valentino. Of the featured daughters only Jayne Marie was included in 1988 Playboy 100 Beautiful Women Newsstand Special magazine, along with a picture from Hooker pictorial. The issue also featured her mother.
Jayne Mansfield gave birth to Jayne Marie on November 8, 1950 after a difficult labour at the age of 17. The birth and her secret marriage to Paul Mansfield on January 28, 1950, followed by a public wedding on May 10, put Jayne's show-biz aspirations on hold until the mid-1950s. The first half of the decade she was busy juggling motherhood and classes at the University of Texas at Austin
, then spending a year at Camp Gordon, Georgia
while Paul served in the United States Army
. The couple were divorced on January 8, 1958. Jayne married Miklós Hargitay on January 13, 1958, and Jayne Marie grew up together with three half-siblings born out of that marriage - Miklós Jeffrey Palmer Hargitay (born December 21, 1958), Zoltan Anthony Hargitay (born August 1, 1960), and Mariska Magdolina Hargitay
(born January 23, 1964). Jayne Marie graduated from Fort Hunt High School in Alexandria, Virginia
.
Two weeks before her mother's death on June 29, 1967, Jayne Marie, then 16, accused her mother's then boyfriend, Sam Brody, of beating her. The girl's statement to officers of the West Los Angeles police department the following morning implicated her mother in encouraging the abuse
, and days later, a juvenile-court judge awarded temporary custody of Jayne Marie to a great-uncle, W.W. Pigue. Out of Jayne's five children, only Jayne Marie attended her mother's funeral on July 3, 1967 (due to the fact the other children were all under the age of 10). In 1968, wrongful-death lawsuits were filed on behalf of Jayne Marie and Matt Cimber
, Jayne's husband from September 24, 1964 to July 11, 1965 and producer-director of her last film Single Room Furnished, the former for $4.8 million and the latter for $2.7 million.
Playboy
Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
Playmate Jayne Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield was an American actress working both in Hollywood and on the Broadway theatre...
, who became the first daughter of a Playmate to be a featured model. The record was made in the magazine's July 1976 issue, and, to date only one other daughter of a Playmate has been featured in the magazine. She also is the only model who was featured as 100 Beautiful Women along with her mother in the magazine's 1988 special issue. She has acted in the film Olly, Olly, Oxen Free
Olly Olly Oxen Free (film)
Olly, Olly, Oxen Free is a 1978 American black comedy film directed by Richard A. Colla and starring Katharine Hepburn. The screenplay by Eugene Poinc is based on a story by Poinc, Colla, and Maria L. de Ossio...
and TV production Blond in Hollywood.
Playmate's daughter as a Playboy model
Jayne Marie Mansfield is the first of Playboy nude models whose mothers were featured nude as well. Her 7-page pictorial in the magazine's July 1976 issue, titled Jayne's Girl, was photographed by Dwight HookerDwight Hooker
Dwight Hooker is a photographer for Playboy magazine. He was, at times, described as a master of the sensual and the erotic along with photographers Helmut Newton and J. Frederick Smith...
. Hooker made the pictorial in a vintage Southern
Southern United States
The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive area in the southeastern and south-central United States...
context, including monochromatic
Monochrome
Monochrome describes paintings, drawings, design, or photographs in one color or shades of one color. A monochromatic object or image has colors in shades of limited colors or hues. Images using only shades of grey are called grayscale or black-and-white...
images. The accompanying text makes a comparison to her mother and the differences between the two, though Jayne Marie said in an interview that she is "not capitalizing on her bosom as (my) mother did" for the pictorial. In describing her art historian Anthony W. Lee together with photogrpher Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of "deviant and marginal people or of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal." A friend said that Arbus said that she was "afraid.....
wrote, "Jayne Marie Mansfield has her mother's rounded features and mysterious eyes."
An image of Jayne Marie from the pictorial appears in Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste by John Waters
John Waters (filmmaker)
John Samuel Waters, Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, stand-up comedian, writer, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films...
(Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005), which has a section dedicated to star daughters. The pictorial also appeared on the Playboy Newsstand Special titled Blonds Brunettes Redheads (also featured Claudia Ohana, Loretta Martin, Francoise Gayat and Shannon Tweed
Shannon Tweed
Shannon Lee Tweed is a Canadian actress and model. One of the most successful actresses of mainstream erotica, she is identified with the genre of the erotic thriller...
) in 1985, and the September 1976 issue of A Revista do Homem, the Brazilian version of Playboy (also featuring Vera Manhães).
Jayne Marie Mansfield was featured in the Playboy a second time in December of the same year, as one of the "sex stars of 1976" and this time photographed by Arthur Knight, and a third time in a feature titled Playmate Reunion in the April 1980 issue of the magazine. The issue also featured among other Cyndi Wood, Monique St. Pierre, Sondra Theodore
Sondra Theodore
Sondra Theodore is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1977 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus...
, Carol Vitale, Dolly Read, and Candy Loving
Candy Loving
Candy Loving is an American model. She was Playboy 's Playmate of the Month for the January 1979 issue, which made her the magazine's 25th Anniversary Playmate...
, as well as Hugh Hefner
Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston "Hef" Hefner is an American magazine publisher, founder and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises.-Early life:...
, the printer, editor and publisher of magazine.
The credit for the first Playmates of the Month whose mother was another Playmate of the Month goes to Simone Eden, from the February 1989 issue, whose mother, Carol Eden
Carol Eden
Carol Eden is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its December 1960 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by William Graham....
, was on the centerfold in December 1960. The credit for the first daughters to appear together with the mother goes to Dawn and Shannon Davis who appeared on August 1993 issues with their mother Tamara Davis. That Arny Freytag
Arny Freytag
Arny Freytag is an American photographer. Among his works are several photo shoots for Playboy magazine, and as of 1994 held the record for photographing the most Playmate centerfolds. As of September 2008, Freytag has photographed every WWE Diva that has appeared on the cover of Playboy.-External...
pictorial was titled Like Mother, Like Daughters after the title for a 1968 movie featuring Playmate Victoria Valentino. Of the featured daughters only Jayne Marie was included in 1988 Playboy 100 Beautiful Women Newsstand Special magazine, along with a picture from Hooker pictorial. The issue also featured her mother.
Biography
| Family ties |
|---|
| Jayne Mansfield Jayne Mansfield Jayne Mansfield was an American actress working both in Hollywood and on the Broadway theatre... - Mother |
| Paul Mansfield - Father |
| Mickey Hargitay Mickey Hargitay Miklós "Mickey" Hargitay was an actor and Mr. Universe 1955. Born in Budapest, Hungary, he was married to Jayne Mansfield, and the father of actress Mariska Hargitay... - Step father |
| Antonio Raphael Ottaviano Cimber - Half Brother |
| Tina Hargitay - Step sister |
| Zoltan Hargitay - Half Brother |
| Mariska Hargitay Mariska Hargitay Mariska Hargitay is an American actress, best known for her role as New York City sex crimes Detective Olivia Benson on the NBC television drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a role that has earned her multiple awards and nominations, including an Emmy and Golden Globe.The daughter of actress... - Half Sister |
| Miklos 'Mickey' Hargitay Jr. - Half Brother |
Jayne Mansfield gave birth to Jayne Marie on November 8, 1950 after a difficult labour at the age of 17. The birth and her secret marriage to Paul Mansfield on January 28, 1950, followed by a public wedding on May 10, put Jayne's show-biz aspirations on hold until the mid-1950s. The first half of the decade she was busy juggling motherhood and classes at the University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
, then spending a year at Camp Gordon, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
while Paul served in the United States Army
Army
An army An army An army (from Latin arma "arms, weapons" via Old French armée, "armed" (feminine), in the broadest sense, is the land-based military of a nation or state. It may also include other branches of the military such as the air force via means of aviation corps...
. The couple were divorced on January 8, 1958. Jayne married Miklós Hargitay on January 13, 1958, and Jayne Marie grew up together with three half-siblings born out of that marriage - Miklós Jeffrey Palmer Hargitay (born December 21, 1958), Zoltan Anthony Hargitay (born August 1, 1960), and Mariska Magdolina Hargitay
Mariska Hargitay
Mariska Hargitay is an American actress, best known for her role as New York City sex crimes Detective Olivia Benson on the NBC television drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a role that has earned her multiple awards and nominations, including an Emmy and Golden Globe.The daughter of actress...
(born January 23, 1964). Jayne Marie graduated from Fort Hunt High School in Alexandria, Virginia
Alexandria, Virginia
Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of 2009, the city had a total population of 139,966. Located along the Western bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria is approximately six miles south of downtown Washington, D.C.Like the rest of northern Virginia, as well as...
.
Two weeks before her mother's death on June 29, 1967, Jayne Marie, then 16, accused her mother's then boyfriend, Sam Brody, of beating her. The girl's statement to officers of the West Los Angeles police department the following morning implicated her mother in encouraging the abuse
Child abuse
Child abuse is the physical, sexual, emotional mistreatment, or neglect of a child. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Children And Families define child maltreatment as any act or series of acts of commission or omission by a parent or...
, and days later, a juvenile-court judge awarded temporary custody of Jayne Marie to a great-uncle, W.W. Pigue. Out of Jayne's five children, only Jayne Marie attended her mother's funeral on July 3, 1967 (due to the fact the other children were all under the age of 10). In 1968, wrongful-death lawsuits were filed on behalf of Jayne Marie and Matt Cimber
Matt Cimber
Matt Cimber is an Italian-American film producer, director and writer. He was the last husband of Jayne Mansfield, who was the mother of his son, Antonio Raphael . Cimber directed her on stage and in one movie, Single Room Furnished...
, Jayne's husband from September 24, 1964 to July 11, 1965 and producer-director of her last film Single Room Furnished, the former for $4.8 million and the latter for $2.7 million.
Filmography
- Olly, Olly, Oxen FreeOlly Olly Oxen Free (film)Olly, Olly, Oxen Free is a 1978 American black comedy film directed by Richard A. Colla and starring Katharine Hepburn. The screenplay by Eugene Poinc is based on a story by Poinc, Colla, and Maria L. de Ossio...
(1978): An independent filmIndependent filmAn independent film, or indie film, is a professional film production resulting in a feature film that is produced mostly or completely outside of the major film studio system. In addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies, independent films are also produced...
directed by Richard A. CollaRichard A. CollaRichard A. Colla is an American film, television director and actor.On screen he played Tony Merritt #1 on the soap opera Days of our Lives...
that featured Katharine HepburnKatharine HepburnKatharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, stage, and television. In a career that spanned 62 years as a leading lady, she was best known for playing strong-willed, sophisticated women in both dramas and comedies...
and Kevin McKenzieKevin McKenzieKevin Alexander McKenzie is a South African first-class cricketer whose career with Transvaal lasted from his first season in 1966/67 to the final one in 1986/87....
in the lead. She was uncredited in cast list. - Blond in Hollywood (season three): (TV production, 1 episode, February 2003): Third season of a documentary series on Hollywood sex symbols that also featured Matt Climber and Miklós Hargitay, two of Jayne's husbands as themselves.
- Jayne Mansfield: Loves and Kisses: Featured as an interview in the A&EA&E NetworkThe A&E Network is a United States-based cable and satellite television network with headquarters in New York City and offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, London, Los Angeles and Stamford. A&E also airs in Canada and Latin America. Initially named the Arts & Entertainment Network, A&E launched...
documentary hosted by Peter GravesPeter Graves (actor)Peter Aurness , known professionally as Peter Graves, was an American film and television actor. He was best known for his starring role in the CBS television series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973...
aired in 2006.