Book Reviews

As a new feature to the Jaynie's Pink Palace blog I thought that I would start doing book reviews. One of my favourite JM things to collect is books, and while there aren't a lot of books out there just purely on Jayne there are books around that either feature her on the front cover or there are also quite a few Hollywood books on numerous stars that feature a chapter on Jayne. Considering that Jayne Mansfield books are hard to come by purely because there hasn't been many authors writing about her over the years, I think that I have a great little collection of books. I will re-read all the books that I own that relate to Jayne in some way and give a review on them while focusing mainly on the Jayne chapter. I hope that my readers will enjoy this part of the blog, and that if you are a Jayne collector yourself, will perhaps assist you with future purchases.

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I've seen some weird hand made Jayne things...

but this definitely trumps the lot.

LOVE RARE PHOTOS

I just love the rarer images like this one. It's just divoon. Looks like Jayne is the honorary person to some sort of event or parade.

Jayne Meets a fan at the Peppermint Lounge

Click on the photo and it will take you to the blog of the daughter of the lady posing with Jayne in this lovely photo.

Jayne Mansfield in Tralee

Jayne Mansfield made alot of appearances around the world in the late 60's for her tongue-in-cheek satirical acts. One that made quite a stir was her trip to Tralee, Ireland in April 1967 (just two months before her death). Jayne had been booked to appear at the newly opened Brandon Hotel. At the time Ireland was far behind the United States in the sexual revolution of the 60's. To the Parish Priest of Tralee Jayne Mansfield was no more than a dumb blonde sex symbol and he did not want her filthy show to partake in his town. He requested that the Bishop had a letter read out inside all churches in the country warning people not to attend the show. By the time Jayne arrived in town there had been so much uproar towards her show that it was cancelled by the Hotel. A press conference was held announcing the cancellation of the show where Jayne denied ever intending to put on a disrespectful show. She left town the next day. The prudish people of Tralee had gotten their way, Jayne was not performing, however the general public still flocked out in large crowds to catch a glimpse of the notorious bombshell on her arrival as seen here in this video clip

Here are some photo's from Jayne's arrival at Tralee and from the Press Conference held at the Hotel. Notice Sam Brody barely letting her out of his sight.

To watch more footage of Jayne in Tralee visit http://www.rte.ie/laweb/ll/ll_t01n.html

Jayne's Girls

Quiet often I come across magazine or newspaper articles or blogs that display a photo of Jayne Mansfield and a little girl with the Caption, Jayne with daughter Mariska Hargitay. Sometimes it is a photo of Jayne and Mariska, but more often than not, it is actually a photo of Jayne with her eldest daughter Jayne Marie Mansfield. Alot of people really don't bother to do the research. If they did they would know that Mariska was three years old when her mother died.


This photo is more like 1956 and that is
Jayne Marie with her not Mariska.

  I also have noticed that sometimes articles state Mariska to be any baby that they see Jayne holding, like this photo;


Jayne is holding baby Zoltan and that's Mickey
Jr she's helping get dressed into his pajama's

I'm a really huge Jayne Mansfield fan and I can always tell which of her children is which. Each look very different from the other but still like most siblings hold certain similarities. If it's Jayne with a little girl over the age of three than yes, it is more than likely Jayne Marie (unless Jayne is posing with a child friend or fan). If it is Jayne in a photo with a little girl under the age of three and you would like to know whether it is Mariska or Jayne Marie (because you can't always trust news articles) than a simple way to determine is usually Jayne's hair style. All photos of Jayne with a young Jayne Marie she has her 50's style wavy healthy hair. By the times she had Mariska her hair had pretty much died from the constant bleach. In photo's with Mariska she usually has the big 60's up do look or wigs and hair pieces. Trust me, it's alot different to her 50's look and easily distinguishable.

To help clarify, the following photo's are photo's of Jayne with Jayne Marie at a very young age, the age which often throws people off. When a magazine publishes these photo's without doing the proper research people will go away thinking these are images of Mariska Hargitay as a child when they are not.

 These next photo's are of Jayne and Mariska.. Like I told you, compare Jayne's hair.



 

This following image really baffles me as to how people can think that it is Jayne and Mariska. This is a heart touching soulful photo of Jayne with her daughter Jayne Marie taken by Diane Arbus in 1965. Does this girl look like the age of 1 to you?? Sorry if I am getting into this too much it's just that it bothers me when magazine's and newspapers don't bother researching anything. They just print what they like and then people believe it to be the truth. I guess that is the way of the world these days though.

These next two images are high school year book photos. Jayne Marie on the left and Mariska on the right.

Jayne Marie was the daughter Jayne had with her first husband, Paul Mansfield, when she was only 17 years old. Jayne Marie resembled her famous mother so much, it's uncanny how much she looks like her. Jayne Marie was 16 when her mother died, she went to live with an aunt and uncle from Paul's side of the family however she need not stay there long. When Jayne Marie was 18 she married a banker and had a baby. I'm not too sure what happened from then on with her husband and baby. But I did find one particular article from 1977 that said this;

 By the time she was 25 she was looking at getting into acting just like her mother.  Jayne Marie was barely getting by as a hair dresser and Secretary when she ran into actor Walter Matthau (who stared along side Jayne in the play Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter and the motion picture A guide for the Married Man) on the street and he introduced her to an agent. From then on she was studying acting and giving interviews about her eagerness to start an acting career but very little became of it. She stared in Olly, Olly, Oxen Free (Sometimes known as The Great Balloon Adventure or The Great Balloon Race) alongside Katherine Hepburn. Though I am yet to see this movie, I don't think that Jayne Marie's role in the film was a large one. During this time she also posed nude twice for Playboy magazine (first in July 1976 and again in December that same year) being the first ever daughter of a playmate to also pose for the magazine. Jayne Marie at the time was also in the talks of writing a book on her mother. And then there was also talk of another book she was supposedly writing with Gregg Tyler which was to be titled "Diamonds in the Dust", the pair were engaged at the time (though they never did marry, perhaps it was for publicity). While Gregg Tyler did write about Jayne in his book 'The Joy of Hustling', Jayne Marie never published a book about her mother. But who knows, maybe someday she might. For some reason unknown to this blogger Jayne Marie pulled away from her pursuit to becoming an actress. I think she continued working as a secretary from there on out but am not completely sure. Perhaps it was just the case that she was not cut out for Hollywood and did not have the drive her mother had for a life as a star.

Jayne Marie poses with a photograph of her-
self with her mother

I will end this post with photographs from Jayne Marie's playmate photoshoots. She looks so much like her mother in these photographs. Enjoy.