I was doing some image searching for my manipulating hobby and decided to manipulate a sex symbol icon - Jayne Mansfield. Mostly because I know very little about her except I really love this song from Kill Bill.
I googled "death of Jayne Mansfield" and got about 877,000 results (0.12 seconds).
Image search I got about 260,000 results (0.24 seconds).
One major thing I did not know was first the exact story of the car crash. Find it on Snopes.
I noticed that she had kid survivors of the crash. So I googled that and found out this similarity between Jayne and Mariska is uncanny!
You can see the Mariska looks like her mom, Jayne right here, too.
The below video is pretty much informative on her death. It was pretty gory in those days, but after the Kennedy assasination and Vietnam Life Magazine photos (no way that if you lived as a child those years, you didn't see them) the press just spewed out the real gore stuff. I remember a photo of heads and ears trophies I saw in Life from Viet Nam. but can not find them in a search. And of course we all remember this one, but I found the grown up version of the poor little girl who was burning from Napalm. I also picked out a site that you can search the Nam photos called "Illustrated History" in my dumpster crawling.
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8 comments:
I never knew Jane Mansfield died from a car crash. Learn something new everyday. Daughter really does look like a clone.
I'll never for get that photo of those kids running from a napalm drop. Like that photo of the Vietnamese spy taking that bullet to the head in the middle of the street.
Jane Mansfield died in a car wreck? Yep... down on the coast in Biloxi, MS if mt memory is correct...
~shoes~
I have written about your blog on mine today. Hope you like it!!
BTW...This post was fascinating. A lot of it I did know but I did NOT know that Mariska was her daughter. Incredible!
I remember being a small child and seeing the picture of the wreck along with the body of her dead dog laying on the road. She took the dog with her every where. That picture still haunts me. I think her daughter, Mariska is beautiful and her mom would be proud of her.
I love this blog, btw.
Thank you all for stopping by. Thanks for all the kind words, BB.
I was going to toss off a wiseguy reply (Jayne Mansfield is DEAD!!??) which is pretty much how I roll.
But, this was really an informative post. I enjoyed reading it. The background music only made it mo' bettah.
Really, though, she IS!?
Just for clarification - the photo of Jayne with the bid hat on siting at the Stork Club is not with her daughter Mariska - that's Jayne's first daughter, Jayne Marie Mansfield. Jayne Marie was born in 1950 - she and Mariska did look a lot like as little girls -- but that photo is definitely Jayne Marie with her mom.
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