Jayne Marie Mansfield

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Jayne Marie Mansfield (born November 8, 1950) is the eldest daughter of 1960s Hollywood sex symbol and Playboy Playmate Jayne Mansfield, who became the first daughter of a Playmate to be a featured model. The record was made in the magazine's July 1976 issue, and, as of September 2007, only one other daughter of a Playmate has been featured in the magazine. She also is the only model who was featured as 100 Beautiful Women along with her mother in the magazine's 1988 special issue. She has acted in the film Olly, Olly, Oxen Free and TV production Blond in Hollywood.

[edit] Playmate's daughter as a Playboy model

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She is the first of Playboy nude models whose mothers were featured nude as well.^[1][2][3][4] Jayne Marie's 7-page pictorial, titled Jayne's Girl, was photographed by Dwight Hooker. Hooker made the pictorial in a vintage Southern context, including monochromatic images. The accompanying text makes a comparison to her mother and the differences between the two.^[5] Some sources wrongly claim her to be a Playmate, featured on the centerspread, in the July 1976 issue.^[6] The issue also featured Deborah Borkman (Playmate of the Month), Cindy Wood (on the cover), Kris Kristofferson and Sarah Miles. Jayne Marie Mansfield was featured in the Playboy a second time in December of the same year, as one of the "sex stars of 1976" and this time photographed by Arthur Knight,^[7] and a third time in a feature titled Playmate Reunion in the April 1980 issue of the magazine.^[8][9] The issue also featured among other Cyndi Wood, Monique St. Pierre, Sondra Theodore, Carol Vitale, Dolly Read, and Candy Loving, as well as Hugh Hefner, the printer, editor and publisher of magazine.

The credit for the first Playmates of the Month whose mother was another Playmate of the Month goes to Simone Eden, from the February 1989 issue, whose mother, Carol Eden, was on the centerfold in December 1960.^[1][2][3][4] The credit for the first daughters to appear together with the mother goes to Dawn and Shannon Davis who appeared on August 1993 issues with their mother Tamara Davis. That Arny Freytag pictorial was titled Like Mother, Like Daughters after the title for a 1968 movie featuring Playmate Victoria Valentino.^{[1][2][3][4][10]}

Of the featured daughters only Jayne Marie was included in 1988 Playboy 100 Beautiful Women Newsstand Special magazine, along with a picture from Hooker pictorial, which also featured her mother.^[11] An image of Jayne Marie from the pictorial appears in Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste by John Waters (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005), which has a section dedicated to star daughters. The pictorial also appeared on the Playboy Newsstand Special titled Blonds Brunettes Redheads (also featured Claudia Ohana, Loretta Martin, Francoise Gayat and Shannon Tweed) in 1985,^[12][13] and the September 1976 issue of A Revista do Homem, the Brazilian version of Playboy (also featuring Vera Manhães).^[14]

[edit] Biography

Main article: Jayne Mansfield

Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay with children Jayne Marie Mansfield, Miklós Jeffrey Palmer Hargitay and Zoltan Anthony Hargitay

Jayne Mansfield gave birth to Jayne Marie on November 8, 1950 after a difficult labour at the age of 17. The birth and her secret marriage to Paul Mansfield on January 28 1950, followed by a public wedding on May 10, put Jayne's show-biz aspirations on hold till mid-1950s. The first half of the decade she was busy juggling motherhood and classes at the University of Texas at Austin, then spending a year at Camp Gordon, Georgia while Paul served in the United States Army. The couple were divorced on January 8, 1958. Jayne married Miklós Hargitay on January 13, 1958, and Jayne Marie grew up together with three half-siblings born out of that marriage - Miklós Jeffrey Palmer Hargitay (born December 21, 1958), Zoltan Anthony Hargitay (born August 1, 1960), and Mariska Magdolina Hargitay (born January 24, 1964).

Two weeks before her mother's death on June 29, 1967, Jayne Marie, then 16, accused her mother's then boyfriend, Sam Brody, of beating her.^[15] The girl's statement to officers of the West Los Angeles police department the following morning implicated her mother in encouraging the abuse, and days later, a juvenile-court judge awarded temporary custody of Jayne Marie to a great-uncle, W.W. Pigue.^[16] Out of Jayne's five children, only Jayne Marie attended her mother's funeral on July 3, 1967.

In 1968, wrongful-death lawsuits were filed on behalf of Jayne Marie and Matt Cimber, Jayne's husband from September 24, 1964 to July 11, 1965 and producer-director of her last film Single Room Furnished, the former for $4.8 million and the latter for $2.7 million.^[17]

[edit] Filmography

• Olly, Olly, Oxen Free^[18] (1978): An independent film directed by Richard A. Colla that featured Katharine Hepburn and Kevin McKenzie in the lead.^[19]
• Blond in Hollywood (season three): (TV production, 1 episode, February 2003): Third season of a documentary series on Hollywood sex symbols that also featured Matt Climber and Miklós Hargitay, two of Jayne's husbands as themselves.^[20]

[edit] Footnotes and references

[edit] Sources

• Strait, Raymond (July 1992). Here They Are Jayne Mansfield. USA: S.P.I. Books. ISBN 1-56171-146-2. 

[edit] External links

• Jayne Marie Mansfield at the Internet Movie Database