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.