JAYNE MANSFIELD: Gone, But Not For(ty)gotten
Fri, Nov 27, 2015bySleuth “A 40-inch bust and a lot of perseverance with get you more than a cup of coffee,” Jayne felt, “a lot more.” And speaking of hot water, a bottle built in the shape of “the two and only Jayne Mansfield” became a popular flotation Dvice in 1957a rare vintage model is offered in auctionLot 10. Jayne fronted the product while its inventor Don Poynter, who later patented “Executive Waste Basket-Ball,” enthused: “This is a big seller among bachelors” (who needed to let off steam). Called “Hollwood’s Smartest Dumb Blonde” for her reputed I.Q. of 163, Mansfield moaned that the public “doesn’t care about my brains, they’re only interested in 40-21-35.” We take the measure of the woman in Lot 63with Jayne’s industrial-strengthworn bra, containing her DNA on apairof lip prints! In public, she popularized the Bullet Bra once again taking pointers from the more famous ‘Bottle Blonde.’ When Fifties Cadillacs built prominent protruding extensions in front to ‘stand out’ from the competition, the ‘bullet bumpers’ were quickly dubbed ‘Jayne Mansfields’ landing the buxom blonde her first national ad campaign! A harrowing harbinger of Jayne’s death a dozen years later when her car slid under a slowed tractor-trailer on June 29, 1967shearing off its top {though not, as reported, her headthe blonde wig on the hood apart from her body fooled, and fueled, the media}. Her 3-year-old daughter Mariska Hargitaythe future star of Law Order: SVUwas asleep in the back seat and the trailer passed just above the tiny tot’s scalp! In response, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration mandated the red white striped under-ride guide that hangs below every tractor-trailer rig today, officially designated as ‘The Mansfield Bar.’ And fittingly, since Jayne was all natural, the two “prominent granite mounds between Sunrise High Sierra Camp and Cathedral Creek” in Yosemite National Park were christened ‘The Mansfield Domes’ in 1960.
Dismissively dubbed ‘The Working Man’s Marilyn Monroe’ always on the periphery trying to steal from the star (below) it’s apairent that ‘Great Profile’ JAYNE MANSFIELD had a huge impact both in life death.
