Jayne Mansfield Net Worth

Jayne Mansfield's Quotes

• To establish yourself as an actress, you have to become well known. A girl just starting out, I would tell her to concentrate on acting, but she doesn't have to go around wearing blankets.
• Stars were made to suffer, and I am a star.
• I don't want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn't say anything too strong, but I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.
• Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.
• I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for betterment for me.

Interesting Facts about Jayne Mansfield

1. The Playboy Playmate of the Month for February 1955, Mansfield's daughter, Jayne Marie Mansfield, followed in her mother's footsteps by appearing in Playboy in 1976.
2. Producer Louis W. Kellman always said that he "discovered" Jayne Mansfield. He gave the then little known actress her first starring role (Gladden, Dan Duryea's sexy-but-shy gun moll kid sister) in The Burglar (1957) after seeing the normally jaded and unflappable film crew's "overheated" reaction to her on the set of Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) in which she had a small role.
3. Had five children: Jayne Marie Mansfield (born November 8, 1950), Mickey Hargitay Jr. (born December 21, 1958), Zoltan Hargitay (born August 1, 1960), Mariska Hargitay (born January 24, 1964) and Tony Cimber (born October 18, 1965).
4. Turned down the role of Ginger Grant on Gilligan's Island (1964), which went to Tina Louise.
5. Made Mr. Blackwell's Worst-Dressed List in 1961 with Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren and Shirley MacLaine. She also made the List in 1964.
6. Initally divorced Mickey Hargitay on May 1, 1963; she divorced him again in Juarez, Mexico. On August 26, 1964, the California Superior Court recognized the Mexican divorce pronouncement.
7. Was arrested for indecent exposure during her nightclub act in Burlington, Vermont in 1963.
8. Son Zoltan Hargitay was critically injured by a supposedly tame lion while visiting the Jungleland Zoo in Thousand Oaks, California, but made a full recovery. [December 1966]
9. Her goal, as quoted in the book, "Jayne Mansfield and the American Fifties": "To feel satisfied with myself; to know that I have arrived. To be liked. To be a big personality. The real stars are not actors or actresses. They're personalities. The quality of making everyone stop in their tracks is what I work at.".
10. Contrary to popular belief, she was not decapitated in the car crash that killed her. Her death certificate, issued in New Orleans, Louisiana, lists "crushed skull with avulsion of cranium and brain" as the immediate cause of death; her other injuries included "closed fracture of right humerus" and "multiple lacerations of hands and lower extremities". Following her untimely death, she was interred at Fairview Cemetery in Plainfield (Outside of Pen Argyl), Pennsylvania.
11. The late model Buick that Jayne was killed in was locked in a garage for decades, in the same shape it was in after the crash. The owner, who was a huge fan, displayed it at various shows over the years, and it was sometimes billed as Jayne Mansfield's death car. The car was sold at auction in 1999 for $8000. Reportedly, the car still has the blood stains on the seats.
12. After her death an extension was added to the rear bumper of semi trailers to keep autos from driving under the truck. The were colloquially called Mansfield bars.
13. Her death is the subject of the Siouxsie and the Banshees song "Kiss Them for Me", the title of which is taken from her 1957 film.
14. The German punk-rock-band The Bates dedicated the song "The Lips of Jayne Mansfield" (from the album "Shake!") to her.
15. The only child of Vera (nee Palmer) and Herbert Palmer, Mansfield's ancestry was English and Cornish, and one-eighth German.
16. The Japanese garage rock band The 5.6.7.8's play a song called "I Walk Like Jayne Mansfield".
17. Los Angeles heavy metal band L.A. Guns had a top-40 hit in the early 1990s with a song called "The Ballad of Jayne", which was based on her.
18. Was the first American actress to appear nude in a mainstream American film (Promises..... Promises! (1963)).
19. Was with 20th Century-Fox from 1956-1962.
20. Mansfield's nightclub act was enormously successful, reportedly earning her $8,000-$17,000 weekly.