The Jayne Mansfield Story
by Dick Lowry
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Actor: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Loni AndersonDirector: Dick Lowry
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1980-12-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Direct Source Label
Movie Reviews of The Jayne Mansfield Story
Movie Review: Entertaining, sad true story of Jayne Mansfield!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have watched this movie many times on TV, Im so happy they finally put it on DVD, the quality is excellent. The casting couldnt have been more perfect Loni Anderson as Jayne and Arnold Schwarzenegger as the handsome Mickey Hargitay, what a perfect couple they were. The movie starts with Jayne as a young single mother and Hollywood starlet. Her "blonde bombsell" looks, Playboy and publicity stunts become her ticket to stardom. Jayne in reality was no dumb blonde at all. Jayne lands a big part in a broadway play "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter". Then Jayne stars in several big movies, and becomes sterotype as a ditzy blonde and the studios answer to the next Marilyn Monroe, but as Marilyn, Jayne also longs for more serious roles. But she becomes trapped by the Hollywood system and the blonde over the top image she so masterfully created. Along the way she falls in love with a young handsome body builder nice guy named Mickey, who struggles to make Jayne happy. They have 3 children together and live in a beautiful pink palace. But as Jaynes career slides into mismanagement and cheaply made B- movies, she turns to comfort in a bottle and their relationship crumbles. The 1960's hippy culture has little room left for a 50's blonde tease pin up girl. Jayne ends up touring clubs with a comedy stage act just before her tragic death in a car accident on June 30th 1967 , she was 34 years old. My favorite line in the movie is when Jayne tells the press "Micky has a 53 inch chest and mine is 42 inch, our arms are short so it makes dancing very difficult" lol!! In my opinion Jayne was a great comedian, a wonderful mother, and animal lover, a lover of life, truely a lady with a big heart. If she had lived she would have still been a legend of the 50's and played Vegas! I wish she had never left Mickey, he really loved her and I believe many of the other men in her life used her. It is also stated in the Jayne bio book by her good friend May Mann, that Jayne only went to the church of Satan as a gag & publicty stunt, knowing Jayne that sounds like her lol. She was a Christain woman by all accounts. To see the best of Jaynes movies I would recommend the great comedy 1956 "The Girl Can't Help IT" and 1957 "Will Sucess Spoil Rock Hunter". And the last film "Guide to a married Man", small part but very funny.
Summary of The Jayne Mansfield Story
The gaudy rise and dizzy fall of the last great Hollywood blonde bombshell: Jayne Mansfield.Similar DVD Movies
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