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- Who Was Jayne Mansfield?
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- Mariska Hargitay on Her Mother’s Legacy
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In the 1950s, Jayne Mansfield rose to stardom as a cartoonishly-sexy alternative to Marilyn Monroe. Born Vera Jayne Palmer on April 19, 1933, Mansfield arrived in Hollywood at just 21 years old, already a wife and mother. Mansfield starred in films like 1960’s Too Hot to Handle and 1956’s The Girl Can’t Help It. But the actress was best known for h...
Five years after Monroe’s death, Jayne Mansfield died in a car accident. In the early morning hours of June 29, 1967, Mansfield left Biloxi, Mississippi, driving toward New Orleans. The actress had just performed at a Biloxi nightclub, and she needed to reach New Orleans for a television appearance scheduled for the next day. On the long drive, Man...
After the Buick Electra crashed into the truck, it slid under the back of the trailer, shearing off the top of the car. Police rushed to the scene to find Mansfield’s three children alive in the backseat. The accident instantly killed the three adults in the front seat and also killed Mansfield’s dog. Police declared the actress dead on the scene. ...
Mariska Hargitay, who went on to become famous for her role as Olivia Benson in Law and Order: SVU, survived the car accident that killed her mother. So did two of her brothers: Zoltan, who was six, and Miklos Jr., who was eight. Hargitay may have slept through the car accident, but it left a visible reminder in the form of a scar on the actress’s ...
When the Buick carrying Jayne Mansfield slid under the back of a semi-truck, the top of the car was torn off, but it didn’t have to happen this way. The gruesome deaths had been avoidable – and the federal government stepped in to make sure similar accidents didn’t take place in the future. As a result, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administr...
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Mar 2, 2022 · A man in New Orleans reads about the death of American actress Jayne Mansfield in a car crash outside the city the previous day, USA, 30th June 1967. (Photo Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/ Stringer/ Getty Images) Jayne Mansfield was sitting in the front seat of a 1966 Buick Electra with her boyfriend, Sam Brody, and her driver, Ronald B. Harrison.
Jan 2, 2001 · The car crash that killed Jayne Mansfield also decapitated her. In the early morning hours of 29 June 1967, on a narrow country road near a Louisiana swamp, a grey 1966 Buick Electra glided ...
Nov 13, 2009 · Blonde bombshell and celebrated actress Jayne Mansfield is killed instantly on June 29, 1967, when the car in which she is riding strikes the rear of a trailer truck on U.S. Route 90 east of New ...
Feb 2, 2018 · Elaine Stevens will never forget the day that Hollywood actress Jayne Mansfield, along with her lawyer Samuel S. Brody and driver Ronald B. Harrison, were killed in a 1967 car crash in Louisiana.
Aug 20, 2013 · Jayne Mansfield's Car: Directed by Billy Bob Thornton. With Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Billy Bob Thornton, Kevin Bacon. Alabama; 1969: The death of a clan's estranged wife and mother brings together two very different families.
