Jaynie's Pink Palace Book Review: The Gresh - A Lifetime in Show-Biz

This book is a short but sweet autobiography by Carl Gresham aka The Gresh. I have had this book in my collection for quite a while now. Seeing there is so much talk about Jayne's 1967 trip to Yorkshire of late I thought that I should at least mention this book for anyone who is not familiar with it.

Carl was working as a Press Relations Officer at the Batley Variety Club when Jayne came to town. Mention of Jayne in the book is brief. There is no lengthy chapter on Jayne but merely a small paragraph. There is one full page black and white photograph of Carl with Jayne (if I remember correctly access to this photo is on Carl Gresham's web page along with the three small images of Jayne holding puppies). However I am not greedy, I am at least glad that Carl mentioned Jayne and I was thrilled to see her grace the front cover. There are many other people mentioned in Carl's book however majority of them are British soap stars from the 70's whom I had never heard of so I can't say that I enjoyed the entire book. However I did at least stick through it til the end and there were parts that I did enjoy.

I am glad to have this item in my collection. I would recommend this book only for the real die hard Jayne Mansfield fans like myself who have to get their hands on anything to do with Jayne no matter how small the significance. Anyone only after new photographs or lengthy text on Jayne this book is not for you.