She then spent a year at Camp Gordon, Georgia (a US Army training facility) when Paul Mansfield served in the United States Army Reserve in the Korean War. She also joined the Curtain Club, a campus theatrical society that included among its members lyricist Tom Jones, composer Harvey Schmidt, and actors Rip Torn and Pat Hingle. There she worked as a nude art model, sold books door-to-door, and worked as a receptionist at a dance studio. She then moved to Austin, Texas, with her husband, and studied dramatics at the University of Texas at Austin. She entered the Miss California contest but was forced to resign after Paul found out. In 1951, Jayne moved to Los Angeles and attended a summer semester at UCLA. Jayne and her husband enrolled in Southern Methodist University to study acting. Their daughter, Jayne Marie Mansfield, was born six months later on November 8, 1950. Īt age 17, she married Paul Mansfield on May 6, 1950. She consistently received grades in the high Bs in all subjects.
While in high school, Palmer took violin, piano, and viola lessons. She graduated from Highland Park High School in 1950. At age 12, she took ballroom dance lessons. As a child she wanted to be a Hollywood star like Shirley Temple.
In 1939 her mother married sales engineer Harry Lawrence Peers, and the family moved to Dallas, Texas, where she was known as Vera Jayne Peers. In 1936, her father died of a heart attack. She spent her early childhood in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, where her father was an attorney practicing with future New Jersey governor Robert B. She inherited more than $90,000 from her maternal grandfather, Thomas ($807,000 in 2020 dollars), and more than $36,000 from her maternal grandmother, Beatrice Mary Palmer, in 1958 ($323,000 in 2020 dollars).
Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer on Apin Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, the only child of Herbert William Palmer (1904–1936), of English and German ancestry, and Vera Jeffrey (née Palmer) Palmer (1903–2000), of English and Cornish descent. On June 29, 1967, she died in an automobile accident in Eastern New Orleans at the age of 34. Brody, and Las Vegas entertainer Nelson Sardelli. She was allegedly intimately involved with numerous men, including Robert and John F. She married three times, all of which ended in divorce, and had five children.
Mansfield took her professional name from her first husband, public relations professional Paul Mansfield. Her other film roles include the musical comedy The Girl Can't Help It (1956), the drama The Wayward Bus (1957), the neo-noir Too Hot to Handle (1960), and the sex comedy Promises! Promises! (1963) the latter established Mansfield as the first major American actress to perform in a nude scene in a post-silent era film. Mansfield enjoyed success in the role of fictional actress Rita Marlowe in the Broadway play Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955–1956), which she reprised in the film adaptation of the same name (1957). Her film career was short-lived, but she had several box-office successes and won a Theatre World Award and a Golden Globe Award. A sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s while under contract at 20th Century Fox, Mansfield was known for her well-publicized personal life and publicity stunts. Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer Ap– June 29, 1967) was an American actress, singer, nightclub entertainer, and Playboy Playmate. Golden Globe for New Star Of The Year – Actress (1957) Theatre World Award for Promising Personality (1956) 5, including Jayne Marie Mansfield and Mariska Hargitay