Born Vera Jayne Palmer in 1933, the future icon eloped with 20-year-old Paul Mansfield in 1950, just before graduating from high school.

Evangelist Billy Graham once said, "This country knows more about Jayne Mansfield's statistics than the Second Commandment. Fox released the film in the United States in 1959, and it was Mansfield's last mainstream film success.In August 1956, Paul Mansfield sought custody of his daughter, alleging that Jayne was an unfit mother because she appeared nude in Playboy. Her other major movie performances were in The Girl Can't Help It (1956), The Wayward Bus (1957), and Too Hot to Handle (1960).

At Paramount, Jayne performed a sketch she had worked out with Lumet from Joan of Arc for casting director Milton Lewis. G. Ballard's 1973 novel of the same name), a male stunt driver dressed as Mansfield recreates her fatal accident, killing himself in the process. Despite career setbacks, she remained a highly visible celebrity during the early 1960s through her publicity antics and stage performances.The first film documentary on her, The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield, started with herself working in the film, but it was finished in 1968 after her death and had to make use of archival footage.

Playboy issues featuring Mansfield include February 1955 ( Playmate of the Month), February 1956, February 1957, February 1958, December 1958, February 1960 ( The best of Jayne Mansfield), June 1963 (the issue that had Hugh Hefner arrested), Annual 1964 (first issue of The best of Playboy), December 1965, Newsstand Special 1989 ( 100 Beautiful Women), January 1994 and Newsstand Special 1999 ( 45th Anniversary Special), as well as the Playboy calendar in 1959. Afterward, she and her husband enrolled at the University of Texas in Austin, where she began performing in theater productions.In a 1950s Trans World Airlines (TWA) advertisement Mansfield is shown in a low-cut bodice, facing TWA crews, with the copy reading "quite. One of those scenes featured a totally nude (and allegedly champagne-drunk) Mansfield writhing on a bed. Mansfield posed nude for the February 1955 issue of Playboy, which helped launch her career [72] and increased the magazine's circulation; [73] Playboy had begun publishing from publisher–editor Hugh Hefner's kitchen the year before. Pamela Anderson: This Canadian blonde bombshell bared it all for Playboy in October 1989 and hasn't looked back since then.

There are currently plans to make a new film of Mansfield's life, although little progress has been made. We are happy to assist you to make arrangements for extra-large or heavy items which we cannot ship directly.Julie Newmar (1995), Miss Vida Boheme ( Patrick Swayze) remarked while trying out a vintage yellow convertible, "I feel like Miss Jayne Mansfield in this car! Mansfield was a major Hollywood sex symbol during the 1950s and early 1960s while under contract at 20th Century Fox. The Olympic Games-based film was shot in Greece in the fall of 1960 but was not released until June 1962. Playboy reprinted photos from that pictorial issue, with titles such as December 1965's "The Playboy Portfolio of Sex Stars", and January 2000s "Centerfolds of the Century".