From the sixth old age, Jayne Mansfield knew that she wanted to be a film star. The “Working team Monroe”, as she later became known, was 21 when she moved to Los Angeles in 1954 together with her husband Paul Mansfield and her three -year -old daughter Jayne Marie. She immediately got to work and made her superstar efforts reality – a scheme that achieved more traction every day. “Half of the time was not washed and the kitchen was dirty, because every morning I started my dream,” she said, according to Biographer May. Mansfield secured her first studio contract less than a year after her arrival in Tinseltown. Within three years she had won a Golden Globe for her leading role in the musical comedy The girl can't help it.
The bomb image she built proved to be difficult to throw out as an actor after her career was founded, but it was decisive for her ascent to fame. At first, Studio producer did not bite. “If I couldn't go through her, I thought I just had to go around,” she said Saturday Evening Post Of the powers that are in 1957. “Then I did the greatest discovery of my life at that moment. I discovered advertising.” The starlet, who grew up in Dallas, bleached her naturally brunette hair, played a comedic person “Dumb Blonde” (despite her alleged IQ at the genius level) and was photographed as often as possible. Everything in Mansfield's life, including her striking female interior design style, is about a carefully constructed identity. Pink was her characteristic color, and she hugged an extravagant girlish style when it came to home: artificial fur, hearts, cherubs and soft toys were installed in the entire long -standing social living of the actor in the surplus, which she called the pink palace.
A decade after moving to Hollywood greeted Mansfield daughter Mariska Hargitay (now a superstar for her own law, from Law & Order: Special victim unit Fame). Decades after her mother's fatal car accident, the veterans – television actor Mansfield's complicated life – and a few family secrets – in the documentation My mother Jaynewhich has its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May. In it, Hargitay came up with her relationship with her late mother after years of distancing Mansfield's survival person who contained the adoption of a breathtaking bability similar to Monroe. “I never wanted to hear this voice,” said Hargitay W Journal and announced that she avoided seeing her mother's films for a while. “It just got me unhindered.” Mansfield began to take on serious roles after making a name for herself in the industry, but these offers were wide and a few in between. “She was brought into a box,” said Hargitay about the guys. Throughout the documentary SVU Star reveals a more differentiated lens through which Mansfield, who, like Hargitay, had serious ambitions, has a gift for learning foreign languages and – in an eerie case of history, which repeats itself at the age of three, while he was three years old while driving with them by car. “Everyone wants to be seen for their own real thing. And nobody saw them,” said Hargitay W. “So I saw her. And that's extraordinary.”
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