In the mythology of the stars, Jayne Mansfield is somehow a negative image of Marilyn ...
... encouraged - at the outset - by the studios to create an anti-Monroe its success has been to target a much more popular, whose bad taste is ultimately still today a health criterion.
The phenomenon Jayne Mansfield quickly than the world of cinema is rooted in super-markets, festivals and music halls cheap rural America, there is not n'ergote the name of a filmmaker or on the artistic performance of an actor. What we asked the protagonists of this kind of show is to dare, to amaze and make fun of preppy.
Intelligence Jayne Mansfield, is to have understood from the day she discovers the asset represented by his legendary breasts she learns to serve with engineering, exaggerating their size and by arranging always having accidents suspenders own to raise the enthusiasm of the photographers and the laughter of an audience complicit fat and ready for more.
If the career of actress Jayne Mansfield is far from negligible, whether seasoned directors like Frank Tashlin, Raoul Walsh and Stanley Donen have committed, aware of its tremendous impact and knowing that it was better than the image of the "dumb blonde" concocted by the studios, it is clear that since his tragic death in 1967, that the public chose her for the first character super-star, baroque and surreal, and appeared delusional Hollywood doll ready to jump into a pool of champagne at any time of day or night.
Jayne Mansfield For President (1964) is also the angle of his personality that interests us, because its excesses explains his failure as an actress and the emptiness of his privacy.
1959
It is true that one can wonder if such a trial is contemplated in the archives of any popular magazine articles tons and reports dedicated to this blonde who had the explosive power of art chronicling a method that no one finds today.
But an undying thirst for publicity has not always brought to the place she wanted Jayne, there was some contradiction in wanting to force the esteem of directors stage and to engage - in the same time - an escalation delirious nearest stars of varieties deemed inaccessible stars of cinema.
This contradiction, often denounced by Frank Tashlin, who had a friendship for Jayne sincere, has never been resolved: the media report the phenomenon Mansfield was such that no set of moderation could be considered.
April 1957 - Coup boobs and pub. Jayne
advantage of the arrival of Sophia Loren.
photos, interviews, gossip, real and fake scandals were part of the daily bread of Jayne as she had no sense of publicity, perhaps because all his fame is part of a "coup" of what experts call a provocation. It was just his appearance in the red jersey Underwater gala, as authorizing the extravagance of a midnight swim stars, and where Jayne was invited to the delight of photographers overnight, the stranger went to the "A" journals, and even escaped the sagacity of the reporter "Variety".
At that time, Jayne strove to follow the trail of Marilyn, but she knew that his kingdom was not the baroque mystery.
but buxom platinum blonde, always cheerful mood, it was the opposite of an anguished not refusing any public appearance, she was conducting his campaign as a political star, paying with his person there where the sponsors demanded his presence.
That when she combined the titles of "Miss" in Jayne Mansfield was finalizing shows that the range of super-famous Hollywood star, she has never separated: his ensembles selected from all varieties of roses decorated with black, her dogs also painted pink, and later his children behind came the legend, including the tens of millions of Americans or foreigners - having never seen his movies - not ignored, however no details!
TV channels and facilitators of the "shows" the most popular could not resist such a phenomenon, which they knew would greatly increase the ratings: Jayne became - before he had successful roles as Marilyn - a character who furnish the boredom of American homes.
Jayne Mansfield on TV "What's My Line" (1957)
His verve in television, the coverage as "Life" it contained and the heat of public reception, however, irritated the autocrats of large companies: the insolence of Jayne was directing itself its own advertising without considering the opinion of the studios, while the discipline provided by contracts was ruthless.
Cover of LIFE April 23, 1956
1959 It is true that one can wonder if such a trial is contemplated in the archives of any popular magazine articles tons and reports dedicated to this blonde who had the explosive power of art chronicling a method that no one finds today.
But an undying thirst for publicity has not always brought to the place she wanted Jayne, there was some contradiction in wanting to force the esteem of directors stage and to engage - in the same time - an escalation delirious nearest stars of varieties deemed inaccessible stars of cinema.
This contradiction, often denounced by Frank Tashlin, who had a friendship for Jayne sincere, has never been resolved: the media report the phenomenon Mansfield was such that no set of moderation could be considered.
April 1957 - Coup boobs and pub. Jayne advantage of the arrival of Sophia Loren.
photos, interviews, gossip, real and fake scandals were part of the daily bread of Jayne as she had no sense of publicity, perhaps because all his fame is part of a "coup" of what experts call a provocation. It was just his appearance in the red jersey Underwater gala, as authorizing the extravagance of a midnight swim stars, and where Jayne was invited to the delight of photographers overnight, the stranger went to the "A" journals, and even escaped the sagacity of the reporter "Variety".
At that time, Jayne strove to follow the trail of Marilyn, but she knew that his kingdom was not the baroque mystery.
but buxom platinum blonde, always cheerful mood, it was the opposite of an anguished not refusing any public appearance, she was conducting his campaign as a political star, paying with his person there where the sponsors demanded his presence.
That when she combined the titles of "Miss" in Jayne Mansfield was finalizing shows that the range of super-famous Hollywood star, she has never separated: his ensembles selected from all varieties of roses decorated with black, her dogs also painted pink, and later his children behind came the legend, including the tens of millions of Americans or foreigners - having never seen his movies - not ignored, however no details!
TV channels and facilitators of the "shows" the most popular could not resist such a phenomenon, which they knew would greatly increase the ratings: Jayne became - before he had successful roles as Marilyn - a character who furnish the boredom of American homes.
Jayne Mansfield on TV "What's My Line" (1957)
His verve in television, the coverage as "Life" it contained and the heat of public reception, however, irritated the autocrats of large companies: the insolence of Jayne was directing itself its own advertising without considering the opinion of the studios, while the discipline provided by contracts was ruthless.
Cover of LIFE April 23, 1956 
Jayne & Mickey Hargitay Scarcely had the famous seven-year contract he signed is that Jayne blew a story that is a bombshell: she says she married Mickey Hargitay, former Mr. Muscle for her beautiful chest, and because it is well love.
Jayne & Mickey Hargitay Provocation of execrable bad taste, say the guards under the studios, who dream for all of their stars princely marriage of Grace Kelly. But Jayne Mansfield goes her head and, once again, its advertising strategy is not supported by default: the lower classes who enjoy this sacred star offensive Green language and recognition of sexual life in the destiny of a woman who - in addition - its emphasis on the maternal side and declares to dozens of children to populate the Pink Palace, a building that leads to delusional term through unexpected inheritance of one hundred thousand dollars, bequeathed by his grandfather.
At this point in the series of picaresque life of Jayne Mansfield, should evoke the countless anecdotes that accompany each of his films and his performances of music hall. Let this concern with film historians or columnists to cover only the highlights of his biography, at least those that highlight the opportunities it has sacked its own, if not lucid, and make the right choices. Is the extent and nature of the fault that we are interested in Jayne Mansfield because one finds the famous curse inherent in the star system, and moreover quite exemplary in its modernity.
Indeed, the method Mansfield has many followers on the side of "Pop Stars": Is not this excessive that almost cost her eclipse Mick Jaegger, is Do not flamboyant exhibitionism that ruined the hope of Alice Cooper, but that seems to promote Michael Jackson, but not quite Prince?
Jayne Mansfield for president (1964) Anyway, drugged by promoting its image, Jayne Mansfield was passing the consecration of his talent deep disappeared - despite the evidence for his films - as the jumble of his nonsense.
Still remember that by dint of being the first to cultivate an image cheesy Jayne derived no benefit from his "breakthrough" in the cinema that we prefer "The blonde and I" to "The blonde explosive" because in the first there are also big stars of "rock" of the fifties and the tone of Frank Tashlin more insolent, n ' it changes nothing because very soon these two films have toured the world and now spend for masterpieces.
Trailer: The Girl
The Girl Can not Help It (1956)
Trailer: The Explosive Blonde Will Success Spoil
Rock Hunter ( 1957)
This is perhaps not the case with "Kiss Them For Me" (Kiss her for me) that was not the best films of Stanley Donen, but where Jayne manages to be what she always wanted, that is the partner of Cary Grant.
Jayne Mansfield & Cary Grant in "Kiss Them for Me" (1957)
However, the ambition of Raoul Walsh in "The Blonde and the Sheriff" was to show that the plastic Jayne suited equally well to a more conventional type of heroin, without eccentricities.
Jayne Mansfield in The Blonde and the Sheriff (1958) In a very different tone and voluntarily Baroque, Terence Young's film depicts his flamboyant manner of vulgarity that had the success of Jayne in the music halls in California: the French title of "Too hot too handle" is quite explicit in this regard as it becomes "The blonde and naked Soho.
A festival numbers striptease premonitory Announces imitations lush and loaded it Jayne Mansfield will be in the beautiful evenings of transvestites in "Michou".
"The Loves of Hercules" by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia From this film, the performance of Jayne Mansfield will suffer from the failure of its directors and their poverty of inspiration. Will be used in the side "hénaurme" and perfectly hilarious company a sort of peplum wacky "The Loves of Hercules" by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia with Mickey Hargitay as a main partner and comical. And, for his appearance fully nude "Promises, promises that" King Donovan ...
To be left with the chronology, his latest film "Guide for unfaithful husband" signed by Gene Kelly with Walter and Matthan as a partner, is certainly one of its most insignificant role, if he is one of the few where it is framed in close-up with a dome of false hair tripling the size of his head ...
we to believe, to better understand these misconceptions in series, the twilight of Jayne is the consequence of his unhappy love? In truth, the star had faded career first by the total lack of understanding of the actress : Unlike Marilyn, this was neither the perfectionism that kept him from sleeping, or lack of romance of her lovers. 
Despite disputes Hargetay dressers, his divorce, his brief return to the Rose Palace, he was the only human relationship sincere Jayne.
His adventures with Matt Cimber, megalomaniac producer of Italian descent, and his troubles with Sam Brondt, his lawyer crook rather, are part of a sad and sordid chapter in which the abuse alcohol, the influence of drugs and those cults have taken over the health of a proverbial Jayne who had come to resemble his own caricature. 
In 1966, it is presented to
Anton LaVey, leader
of the Church of Satan, who will make her
high priestess fee.
Fortunately for his legend, very few "fans" remember this last period of his life and his evocation today is always linked to renditions of his best films or their passage television channels.
Insiders sixties have kept their delirious disco records with Californian few pouches of their origins, which alone constitute a carnival of eccentricities.
In France, those who lived - like me - remember the old tradition of the balls given by Eddie Barclay during the Cannes Film Festival, attended the famous Jayne Mansfield diving in the pool and memorable dispatch of revelers at Ile du Levant, with the attendant security measures demanded by such an event. One detail that seems to contradict the legend: the dogs that accompanied the star on the Riviera this year were not pink, but gray.
Jayne Mansfield in Cannes.
Others who are now heads of households respectable remember Jayne Mansfield tours in Viet Nam and other bases where the stars came morale GIS
To those who think the car accident that decapitated Jayne Mansfield ended the redeployment of his genius, we must answer as a consolation that they are wrong: if the fall of Marilyn announced psychic imbalances increasingly serious, that of Jayne Mansfield was not in sheltered from the worst outcomes in tone inevitably more sordid. 
Nevertheless, the fate of Jayne Mansfield did not change the "star system" as it operates in the eighties: Each generation sees rise two or three superstars , prototypes of the dream factory that it operates with the complicity of the public before they are asked to be "Hara kiri" timely, which - besides - perpetuating their legend and doubles the firepower of this mythology. Is not that truth as Greta Garbo, the Divine, was the only sense in escaping from the vicious trap that they were tense?
this side of the Atlantic, we also have our "guru": the effort of lucidity Brigitte Bardot deserves one stops there, even if our "star" National No 'is not - in its current phase - its latest reincarnation!
Henry Chapier
The Curse of the Stars (1985)
The Curse of the Stars (1985)
Jayne pacified The French president. Jayne For President (1964)
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