Jayne Mansfield

Jayne Mansfield was an American actress and singer who became a prominent 1950s Hollywood sex symbol. Her films include the musical comedy The Girl Can't Help It.

The Girl Can't Help It: A 1956 musical comedy film starring Jayne Mansfield as a singer whose manager tries to make her a star. This film established Mansfield as a comic performer and showcased her singing voice.
Mickey Hargitay: A Hungarian-American actor and bodybuilder who was married to Jayne Mansfield from 1958 to 1964. Hargitay appeared with Mansfield in films and became a visible part of her public life.
Broadway theatre: Professional theatre presented in New York City's Broadway district and its major commercial venues. Mansfield's Broadway work helped establish her before her film career took off.
Sex symbol: A person widely regarded as embodying sexual attractiveness and used as an object of public desire. Mansfield's fame made the label central to how audiences and the press described her.
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?: A 1957 comedy film in which Jayne Mansfield plays a glamorous movie star drawn into an advertising scheme. Mansfield parodied her own celebrity image in this adaptation of George Axelrod’s play.
Paul Mansfield: An American public-relations professional and Jayne Mansfield's first husband. Their marriage preceded Mansfield's Hollywood fame and her adoption of her stage surname.
University of Texas at Austin: A public research university in Austin, Texas, founded in 1883. Mansfield studied drama there after beginning college at Southern Methodist University.
Publicity stunt: A deliberately staged event or action designed to attract media attention. Mansfield's carefully publicized appearances blurred the line between spontaneous celebrity and promotion.
The Girl in the Kremlin: A 1957 Cold War drama starring Jayne Mansfield as a woman entangled in a mystery involving Joseph Stalin. The role showed Mansfield in a dramatic film outside her best-known comic persona.
Sophia Loren: An Italian actor whose international film career made her one of the leading screen stars of the 1950s and 1960s. A widely reported 1957 photograph juxtaposed Loren's reaction with Mansfield's conspicuous glamour.

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