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Jayne Marie Mansfield (born November 8, 1950) is an American actress and model. She is the first child and eldest daughter of 1950s
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Jayne Mansfield Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American actress, singer, nightclub entertainer, and ''Playboy'' Playmate. A sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s while under contract at 20th Century Fox, Man ...
and Mansfield's ex-husband Paul. Mansfield is also the elder half-sister of actress
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. In July 1976, Mansfield became the first daughter of a
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to be a featured model in ''Playboy.'' To date, only one other daughter of a Playmate has been featured in the magazine. Additionally, Mansfield is the only model who was featured in ''100 Beautiful Women'' along with her mother in the magazine's 1988 special issue. She has acted in the film '' Olly, Olly, Oxen Free'' (1978) and TV production ''Blond in Hollywood'' (2003).


Biography

Jayne Mansfield was born at St Paul’s University Hospital in
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, Two weeks before her mother's death on June 29, 1967, Jayne Marie, then 16, claimed that she had been beaten by her mother's then-boyfriend, Sam Brody. Her statement to the
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the following morning implicated her mother in encouraging the
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, and days later, a juvenile-court judge awarded temporary custody of Jayne Marie to a
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, W.W. Pigue. Out of Jayne's five children, only Jayne Marie attended her mother's funeral on July 3, 1967, because the other children were all under the age of 10. In 1968, wrongful death lawsuits were filed on behalf of Jayne Marie and
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, 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. In 1970, she married Barry Lang in
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; the couple had one son but were later divorced. In March 1979, she declared her plan to write a biography of her mother. As of 2008, Mansfield is in a long-term relationship and frequently visits her grandchildren.


Modeling

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Her 7-page pictorial in the magazine's July 1976 issue, titled ''Jayne's Girl'', was photographed by
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. Hooker made the pictorial in a vintage Southern context, including
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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 photographer
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wrote, "Jayne Marie Mansfield has her mother's rounded features and mysterious eyes."


Filmography

* '' Olly, Olly, Oxen Free'' (1978): An
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directed by Richard A. Colla that featured
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and Kevin McKenzie 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 Cimber and Miklós Hargitay, two of Jayne's husbands, as themselves. * ''Jayne Mansfield: Loves and Kisses'': Featured as an interview in the A&E documentary hosted by
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aired in 2006.


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