Friday, April 8, 2011

Personal Portrait: Jayne Mansfield

Personal Portrait: Jayne Mansfield
American actress Jayne Mansfield (1933 - 1967), a model before she became an actress, she won several beauty contests including the title of "Miss Magnesium Lamp".


American film actor and sex symbol Jayne Mansfield (1933 - 1967) poses in a bikini atop a lifeguard chair at the Dunes Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, mid 1950's. She leans forward from the waist and holds her hair up with her hands.


Hollywood film star Jayne Mansfield (1932-1967), formerly Vera Jane Palmer. She had a short career as a kind of living parody of Marilyn Monroe in films such as 'The Girl Can't Help It' (1956), and "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?"


American actress and Hollywood sex symbol Jayne Mansfield on set during the filming of "Too Hot To Handle".


18th September 1959: American actress Jayne Mansfield at the Empire Cinema in Leicester Square.


26th September 1957: American actress Jayne Mansfield (1933 - 1967) at a press reception at the Dorchester Hotel in London. Mansfield is in London for the premiere of her new film, "Oh For A Man".


American film actor and sex symbol Jayne Mansfield (1933 - 1967) leans forward from the waist and clasps her hands together in a studio portrait, mid 1950's. She wears a green bikini and clear high-heel shoes.


26th April 1958: Hollywood sex symbol Jayne Mansfield (1933 - 1967) arrives at London Airport with her husband Mickey Hargitay and her daughter Jayne Marie. She is to co-star with Kenneth More in the comedy western "The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw".


6th September 1963: American actress Jayne Mansfield with her husband, the Hungarian actor Mickey Hargitay.


November 1966: American actress Jayne Mansfield (1933 - 1967) with her three chihuahuas at her Beverly Hills home.