Jayne Mansfield
Also Known As: Vera Jayne Palmer
Biography: Jayne Mansfield (April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American actress working both on Broadway and in Hollywood. One of the leading blonde sex symbols of the 1950s, Mansfield starred in several popular Hollywood films that emphasized her platinum-blonde hair, hourglass figure and cleavage-revealing costumes. While Mansfield's film career was short-lived, she had several box office successes. She won the Theatre World Award, a Golden Globe and a Golden Laurel. As the demand for blonde bombshells declined in the 1960s, Mansfield was relegated to low-budget film melodramas and comedies, but remained a popular celebrity. In her later career she continued to attract large crowds in foreign countries and in lucrative and successful nightclub tours. Mansfield had been a Playboy Playmate of the Month and appeared in the magazine several additional times. She died in an automobile accident at age 34.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: April 19, 1933
Deathday: June 29, 1967
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
Overview: William Shatner, Liz Taylor and many more stars blow lines, lose their pants and more in this hilarious collection of movie and TV bloopers.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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A Guide for the Married Man
Overview: A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-25
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Playboy: The Story of X
Overview: The Story Of X takes you to the earliest days of adult films when men peddled stag reels and projectors out of the trunks of their cars, then through the movie house years to the arrival of the home video business, and now the Internet. Meet the men behind the camera, such as "King of Sexploitation" Dave Friedman and the preeminent breast man Russ Meyer. Considered pariahs at the time, they're now hailed as pioneers in the fight against censorship. The Story of X visits the 60s when women's rights, not nudity, became the issue and recounts porn's arrival in Hollywood, led by director Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango In Paris. In the 70s, several groundbreaking films, including Behind The Green Door featuring Marilyn Chambers and Deep Throat featuring Linda Lovelace, took the genre to a new level.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Homesick for St. Paul
Overview: A pop singer who has been successful on Broadway, is homesick and returns.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-08-29
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The Burglar
Overview: Burglar Nat Harbin and his two associates set their sights on wealthy spiritualist Sister Sarah, who has inherited a fortune -- including a renowned emerald necklace -- from a Philadelphia financier. Using Nat's female ward, Gladden, to pose as an admirer and case the mansion where the woman lives, they set up a perfect break-in. Things get complicated afterwards.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-01
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Dog Eat Dog!
Overview: Three thieves rip off a shipment of used money being sent back to the US. As they are escaping the robbery (after having taken a hostage), they wind up on an island in a hotel with an apparently crazed manager and a building full of demented residents.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-25
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The Girl Can't Help It
Overview: A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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People, Hopes, Medals
Overview: A documentary covering the 1960 Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, California.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-03-14
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Pete Kelly's Blues
Overview: In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.
Genres: Crime Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-31
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The Challenge
Overview: Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-17
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The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
Overview: English gunsmith Jonathon Tibbs travels to the American West in the 1880s to sell firearms to the locals. He inadvertently acquires a reputation of quickness on the draw due to his wrist mounted Derringer style weapon. Soon gaining the post of sheriff, he endeavours to clean up the town using what skills he has—and by multilateral diplomacy.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-28
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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Overview: To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants him to pretend to be her lover.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-29
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Promises! Promises!
Overview: After a drunken spree on a cruise ship, two women discover that they're pregnant, and set out to find who the fathers are.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-01
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Female Jungle
Overview: Alcoholic detective investigating the murder of an actress starts getting worried when all fingers begin to point at him.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-16
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Single Room Furnished
Overview: The story of woman's change from an innocent teenager to an embittered, disillusioned prostitute and the life tragedies which brought the transformation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-21
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Illegal
Overview: A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-09
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Hollywood Uncensored
Overview: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Peter Fonda host an examination of the history of decency standards for movies from the early 1920s onwards.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-01
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Kiss Them for Me
Overview: Three navy war heroes are booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco. Once they manage to elude their ulcerated public relations officer, the trio throw a wild party with plenty of pretty girls.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-10
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Overview: Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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The Loves of Hercules
Overview: Hercules decides to avenge the death of his wife, murdered at the hands of Éurito, king of Ecalia, but everything is a plot of an ambitious courtier. Hercules ends up falling in love with Deyanira, who is now a good queen.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-08-19
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Hollywood Blue
Overview: A collection of vintage erotica from Hollywood movies is intercut with street interviews and newsreel footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-18
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The George Raft Story
Overview: The 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star George Raft.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-22
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Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Overview: Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-16
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The Wayward Bus
Overview: Three strangers embark on a life-changing journey on a fateful bus ride. As the road presents challenges, each character faces his or her own shortcomings, not knowing where life will lead next.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-27
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Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Overview: A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The James Dean Story
Overview: Released two years after James Dean's death, this documentary chronicles his short life and career via black-and-white still photographs, interviews with the aunt and uncle who raised him, his paternal grandparents, a New York City cabdriver friend, the owner of his favorite Los Angeles restaurant, outtakes from East of Eden, footage of the opening night of Giant, and Dean's ironic PSA for safe driving.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-13
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The Fat Spy
Overview: A mostly-deserted island, which is believed to be the home to the fountain of youth, is off the coast of Florida. The island gets some visitors in the form of a teenage boy band, "the Wild Ones", and their gang of swimsuit-clad young people, who head there in a crowded powerboat ostensibly for a scavenger hunt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-11
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It Happened in Athens
Overview: In 1896 it is announced that the Olympic Games will be revived in Athens. A young shepherd, Spiridon Loues, decides to enter the 26-mile marathon. Once in Athens, he meets Christina Gratsos, a young woman from his hometown who is now the personal maid of Eleni Costa, Greece's most glamorous actress. Though he has arrived after the qualification date, Spiridon's athletic prowess so impresses Coach Graham of the American team that he is permitted to enter the contest. Eleni informs the press that she will marry the victor, confident it will be her lover, Lieutenant Vinardos.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-20
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Too Hot to Handle
Overview: A French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner and star of a famous club.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-01
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Playboy: Celebrity Centerfolds
Overview: What do Marilyn Monroe, Suzanne Somers, Pamela Anderson, Anna Nicole Smith, and Carmen Electra all have in common? Their show business careers were launched or taken to new heights by appearing in Playboy Magazine. This two-hour special looks at the careers of the many beauties who started out unknown but made the move from the pages of Playboy to starring roles in TV and movies
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-24
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Notre Dame de la Croisette
Overview: A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-23
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Las Vegas Hillbillys
Overview: A Hillbilly hits the big time in Las Vegas.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-11
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Spree
Overview: This documentary on the nightlife of Las Vegas was filmed primarily at the Topicana and Dunes Hotels, respectively, in 1962-63. Musical numbers performed by the film's stars aside, "Spree" also includes scenes of gambling casinos, cock fights and boxing.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-21
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Rat Pack
Overview: In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford together form the "rat pack": they sing the most popular hits of the moment, star in the most profitable Hollywood films and are already making a splash on television . This documentary, produced by a recognized specialist in the history of Hollywood, recounts the exceptional destiny of this informal group which flirted with the greats of this world, notably through Sinatra, personal friend of American President Kennedy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-11
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The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield
Overview: Jayne takes us on a review of her last world tour. She takes us through Rome, shares a fantasy about Roman athletes, and then is off to Cannes. She takes a trip to the nudist colony on the Isle of Levant, where she almost kind of joins in. Then it's off to Paris, where she gets a beauty treatment from Fernand Aubrey, and attends some racy dance revues. In New York and Los Angeles, she visits some topless clubs and listens to a topless all-girl pop band. The film wraps up with some posthumous footage of her family in mourning.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-18
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Panic Button
Overview: A businessman comes up with a scheme to make money by financing a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" that's destined to fail, thus giving him some major tax breaks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-10
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Primitive Love
Overview: "Doctor" Jayne Mansfield is in Italy to show a peer her documentary about mating customs from around the world while at the same time having to deal with two bellhops who have an idea or two about mating with Jayne.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-09-01
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Electric Blue Special: Nude Celebrity Special
Overview: A compilation of nude celebrity scenes
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Electric Blue 005
Overview: Desiree Cousteau hosts this fifth installment of the series, which features a narrated travelogue from Susan George, home movie footage of Jayne Mansfield and an interview with Raquel Welch in between numerous nude centerfolds.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Mondo Hollywood
Overview: Long considered a cult classic, "Mondo Hollywood" captures the underside of Hollywood by documenting a moment in time (1965-67), when an inquisitive trust in the unknown was paramount, hope for the future was tangible and life was worth living on the fringe. An interior monologue narrative approach is used throughout the film, where each principal person shown not only decided on what they wanted to be filmed doing, but also narrated their own scenes. The film opens with Gypsy Boots (the original hippie vegan - desert hopping blender salesman), and stripper Jennie Lee, working out 'Watusi-style' beneath the 'Hollywood' sign -- leading into the 'sustainable community' insight of Lewis Beach Marvin III, the S&H Green Stamp heir, who lived in a $10 a month garage while owning a mountain retreat in Malibu.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-30
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Hell on Frisco Bay
Overview: A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-31
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Rockin' Ronnie
Overview: ROCKIN' RONNIE 80's Political Satire Comedy of Ronald Reagan Bloopers.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-21
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Mansfield 66/67
Overview: About the last two years of movie goddess Jayne Mansfield’s life and the speculation swirling around her untimely death being caused by a curse after her alleged romantic dalliance with Anton LaVey, head of the Church of Satan.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-29
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Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon on Camera
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Jayne Mansfield: La tragédie d'une blonde
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-03-22
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Poem Posters
Overview: ... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William Burroughs, Andy Warhol, Rudy Gernreich, Jonas Mekas and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-19
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Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner
Overview: Portrait of Julia Jean Turner, from her childhood to her rise of fame as Lana Turner, to her last role.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-05-22
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Electric Blue - The Movie
Overview: A compilation of clips, hosted by Marilyn Chambers, taken from the 'Electric Blue' series of video tapes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-01
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The Bachelor
Overview: A bachelor account executive with an advertising agency thinks he has the perfect set-up with three girlfriends. And then there is Marion his devoted secretary who worships him and will do anything for him.
Genres: TV Movie Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-15
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Death Scenes 2
Overview: DEATH SCENES II continues the exploration into the dark recesses of violence and rage that ended in such heinous crimes as the Manson Family's assault on society. You'll see the gruesome aftermath of mob reprisals, public executions and international terrorism. DEATH SCENES II uniquely ushers the brave and curious into a spellbinding trip through the reality that is our world today.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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