JAYNE MANSFIELD 1960s BREATHTAKING 2 1/4 CAMERA NEGATIVE PETER BASCH
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:38483022 | Industry: Movies |
| Original/Reproduction: Original | Object Type: camera negative |
| Size: 2.25" |
PETER BASCH PHOTOGRAPHY PROVENANCE: The image offered in this listing comes directly from the personal archived library of PETER BASCH who was a celebrity and artistic nude Playboy photographer during the 1940s through the 1970s. Mr. Basch was a master in glamour and nude fine art photography having authored many books on the subject. In addition to photographer signed and/or stamped photographic images, we are only offering 100% guaranteed original camera images (B&W negatives and color tr...ansparencies) which have been stored away since he produced his first work. Many of the original camera film images (negatives and transparencies) have never been seen before and are one of a kind. Others have been published in the world's top celebrity and men's magazines. The rediscovery of the mastery of Peter Basch will reveal his respect and passion for photographing the world's top celebrities and most beautiful women such as BETTIE PAGE, JAYNE MANSFIELD, GRACE KELLY, SOPHIA LOREN, MARLON BRANDO, JANE FONDA, BRIGITTE BARDOT, ANITA EKBERG, FEDERICO FELLINI, URSULA ANDRESS, and many more. Please see a bio and additional notes on Peter Basch below. DESCRIPTION: A vintage 1960s original 2 1/4" camera negative of actress JAYNE MANSFIELD modeling a swimsuit for the photographer PETER BASCH and from his personal archive.
This is the original negative (film) that was in the camera at the time of the photo shoot and is therefore the only one of its kind in existence. (Please note this listing is for a camera negative, not a photograph. The scan is of its positive view.)RIGHTS: The PETER BASCH FAMILY TRUST is the sole and exclusive copyright owner of the listed image(s). No rights are included in this offering. - SIZE: 2 1/4"- TONE: B&W- CONDITION: Fine, with moderate spotting._______________________________________________________________ CONDITION GRADING Excellent: Very nearly pristine, with no more than trivial flaws. Very Fine: One or two minor defects and only the slightest handling wear. Fine: Minor flaws, with slight handling or surface flaws. Very Good: Slight scuffing, rippling, minor surface impressions. Good: Visibly used with small areas of wear, which may include surface impressions and spotting. Fair: Visibly damaged with extensive wear. SHIPPING TERMS - I ship all items using, what I call, triple protection packing. The photos are inserted into a display bag with a white board, then packed in between thick packaging boards and lastly wrapped with plastic film for weather protection before being placed into the shipping envelope. - The shipping cost for U.S. shipments includes USPS "Delivery Confirmation" tracking. - I am happy to combine multiple wins at no additional cost. Please wait for me to issue the invoice before making payment. PAYMENT TERMS - Please pay within three (3) days of purchase. - I reserve the right to re-list the item(s) if payment is not received within seven (7) days. - eBay SALES TAX COLLECTION - In November 2019, eBay and PayPal changed the way taxes are collected and remitted.
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Based on applicable tax laws, eBay will calculate, collect, and remit sales tax on behalf of sellers for items shipped to customers in the following states: AL, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, ID, IL, IN, IA, KY, ME, MD, MA, MN, NE, NV, NJ, NM, NY, ND, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, and WY. CUSTOMER SERVICE - I will respond to all inquiries within 24 hours. ________________________________________________________________ PETER BASCH (1921-2004) was a German/American glamour photographer who captured thousands of images of the most prominent stars of the 50s and 60s. Peter Basch was born in Berlin, Germany, the only child of Felix Basch and Grete Basch-Freund, both prominent theater and film personalities of the German-speaking world. In 1933 the family came to New York due to fears of rising anti-Jewish sentiment and laws in Germany. The family had US citizenship because Felix's father, Arthur Basch, was a wine trader who lived in San Francisco. After moving back to Germany, Arthur Basch kept his American citizenship, and passed it to his children and, thence, to his grandchildren. When the Basch family arrived in New York in 1933, they opened a restaurant on Central Park South in the Navarro Hotel. The restaurant, Gretel's Viennese, became a hangout for the Austrian expatriate community. Peter Basch had his first job there as a waiter. While in New York, Basch attended the De Witt Clinton High School. The family moved to Los Angeles to assist in Basch's father's career, during which time Basch went to school in England. Upon returning to the United States, Basch joined the Army. He was mobilized in the US Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit, where he worked as a script boy. After the war, he started attending UCLA and started taking photographs of young starlets working with other photographers and film studios. His mother asked him to join her back in New York after she and his father decided that Basch should be a photographer and they obtained a photography studio for their son. For over twenty years, Peter Basch had a successful career as a magazine photographer. He was known for his images of celebrities, artists, dancers, actors, starlets, and glamour-girls in America and Europe. His photos appeared in many major magazines such as Life, Look and Playboy.The Peter Basch Collection includes iconic images of all the major midcentury stars, from Europe and America. These masterful images are a window onto a time we cannot forget, when movie stars stepped out of the studio’s control, and we began to see these larger-than-life performers as full, three-dimensional personalities. Basch’s images capture the heart and spirit of these glamorous performers. Taking pictures in natural light, out in the world, we see these stars as full human beings, not the carefully made-up, studio-approved icons of oldfashioned Hollywood. Basch was able to capture the moments of a human being’s spirit, their mercurial reactions, all the facets that made these magnetic individuals the stars they were. Basch authored and co-authored a number of books containing his photographs including: Candid Photography (1958 with Peter Gowland Basch and Don Ornitz Basch) Peter Basch's Glamour Photography (A Fawcett How-To Book) (1958) Peter Basch photographs beauties of the world (1958) Camera in Rome (1963 with Nathan and Simon Basch) Peter Basch Photographs 100 Famous Beauties (1965) The nude as form & figure (1966) Put a Girl in Your Pocket: The Artful Camera of Peter Basch (1969) Peter Basch's Guide to Figure Photography (1975 with Jack Rey) Thoughts on Peter Basch by his daughter: "My Father, Peter Basch, saw. He looked and he saw. He taught me to see. He taught me to listen and hear. We used to play a game when I was little. He’d say, Michele, look at the street then look at me, what did you see? I would list the cars, red, black, navy; people, fat, tall, thin; children, parents; trees and plants. He would add the detail. A blue car with New York plates, a black car with New Jersey plates. The people were not just tall or small, thin or fat, they wore coats or sweaters, they laughed or were sad. The trees had leaves, were close together, the green was dark, vivid, the sun playing with the shadow. My Father saw. He captured in his mind and on film the unexpected moment in time, the interaction between two people, the look, the thought, the breath that punctuated the decision. My Father was one of the great romantics. He had a true love and appreciation of beauty in its purest form. We would talk about BEAUTY and her differences: natural, Hollywood, young, old and the beauty of communication, interaction, the Beauty of the moment. He recorded the breath in time on film: two ladies in Paris reading the paper, a Dachshund looking around the corner, a chair in front of the Eiffel Tower. My Father saw the thought and seized it for posterity. My Father understood the language light speaks to shadow. He showed me how the sun plays with dark. His favorite moment was at Sunrise when the shadows were long and soft. He saw every hue from white to black and everything in between. He understood the language, taught and published books on Light and Shadow, Form and Figure. I traveled through Europe with my Father. I was his assistant! And proud of it! I was the camera person! Changed the film, made sure the lens was clean, stood in during special poses, helped in the dark room, retouched to refine and perfect. I loved watching him talk and listen. He listened to Jane Fonda, Ursula Andress, Brigit Bardot, Fellini, Mastroiani and so many more. He listened and recorded the answer, the thought, that moment of indecision, realization and Seduction." Film Assignments: 8½ - Fellini Jules et Jim - Truffaut Bijoutiers du Clair de Lune - Vadim The Vice and the Virtue - Vadim Fearless Vampire Killers - Polanski Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - De Sica Une Femme Est Une Femme Goddard Fear - Rosselini Cartouche - De Broca Giant - Stevens Anne Frank - Stevens Guys and Dolls - Mankiewicz Horse Soldiers - Ford Majority of One - Leroy Walk on the Wild Side - Dmytryk Wild in the Streets - Spear Leonidas - Matte The Day the Fish Came Out - Cocayannis The Pawnbroker - Lumet La Verite - Clouzot La Loi Sacree - Pabst Baby Doll - Kazan Summertime - Lean The 13 Most Beautiful Girls - Warhol The Three Sisters - Bogart Francis of Assissi - Curtiz The Swimmer Perry Cape Fear The Man Who Had Power Over Women The Spy With The Cold Nose Winnetou Mata Hari Exhibitions: 2002 Jewish Museum - Vienna Austria “Vom Grossvater vertrieben” 2002 LEICA Gallery, NYC Portrait of Al Hirschfeld 2001 National Portrait Gallery -- London Dame Elizabeth (Taylor) 2001 Fahey-Klein Gallery, LA Group Show/Great Directors 2001 Museum/City of New York, Al Hirschfeld Exhibit 2000 Museum of Modern Art, NY, Brigitte Bardot 1999 Vienna, Austria – “übersee” 1999 Stadt Museum, Munich, Germany “TWEN” exhibit 1997 Museum of the Moving Image – Grace Kelly 1996 Staley Wise Gallery, NY “Shooting Stars” – one man show 1980s Museum of Modern Art, NY, Sophia Loren LA County Museum "Masters of Starlight" (subsequently traveled to Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan) Stadt Museum, Munich, Germany “AKT” (nudes) __________________________________________________________________JAYNE MANSFIELD BIO
(born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American actress who worked in Hollywood and on Broadway. One of the leading blonde sex symbols of the late-1950s, Mansfield starred in several popular Hollywood films that emphasized her platinum-blonde hair, hourglass figure, and cleavage-revealing costumes. 20th Century Fox signed a six-year contact with Mansfield to replace Marilyn Monroe as their resident blonde sex symbol. Throughout her career, she was compared by the media to Monroe and the other top sex symbol Mamie Van Doren. Mansfield was a Playboy Playmate of the Month and appeared in the magazine on several occasions.While Mansfield's film career was short-lived, she had several box office successes and won the Theatre World Award, a Golden Globe, and a Golden Laurel. In 1955, she enjoyed a successful Broadway run acting in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and later the film of the same name in 1957. She is remembered for both this film and a starring role in the comedy film The Girl Can't Help It (1956), which was also produced by 20th Century Fox. Of her rare on-screen dramatic roles, her performance in The Wayward Bus (1957) is regarded as the best. She also sang for studio recordings including the album Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me and the singles Suey and As The Clouds Drift By done together with rock legend Jimi Hendrix. Mansfield's notable television work included The Red Skelton Show (1959–1963) and The Ed Sullivan Show (1957).As the demand for blonde bombshells declined in the 1960s, Mansfield remained a popular celebrity, continuing to attract large crowds outside the U.S. and in lucrative and successful nightclub tours. Her film career continued with lower budget melodramas and comedies, many filmed in the United Kingdom and Europe, including Heimweh nach St. Pauli and L'Amore Primitivo. In the independent film Promises! Promises! (1963), she became the first major American actress to have a nude starring role in a Hollywood motion-picture.In her personal life she was successively married to her childhood lover Paul Mansfield (1950–1958), actor-bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay (1958–1963) and film director Matt Cimber (1964–1966). She was the mother of playmate Jayne Marie Mansfield (born 1950), Miklós Jeffrey Palmer Hargitay (born 1958), Zoltán Anthony Hargitay (born 1960), actress Mariska Magdolna Hargitay (born 1964) and Antonio "Tony" Cimber (born 1965). Mansfield died in an automobile accident at age 34. Jayne Mansfield Playboy centerfold appearance February 1955 Preceded by Bettie Page Succeeded by Marilyn Waltz Personal details Measurements Bust: 40 in (100 cm)
Waist: 21 in (53 cm)
Hips: 35 in (89 cm) Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) (5 ft 8 in according to her autopsy) Jayne Mansfield was the only child of Herbert William and Vera (née Jeffrey) Palmer (1903–2003). Her birth name was Vera Jayne Palmer. A natural brunette, she was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, but spent her early childhood in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. She was of German and English ancestry. When she was three years old, her father, a lawyer who was in practice with future New Jersey governor Robert B. Meyner, died of a heart attack while driving a car with his wife and daughter. After his death, her mother worked as a school teacher. In 1939, when Vera Palmer married Sale Engineer Harry Peers, the family moved to Dallas, Texas.She attended the University of Texas at Austin and studied dramatics at the University of Dallas, having only attended Highland Park High School until her junior year. In Dallas, she became a student of actor Baruch Lumet, father of director Sidney Lumet and founder of the Dallas Institute of the Performing Arts. On October 22, 1953, she first appeared on stage in a production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Frequent references have been made to Mansfield's very high IQ, which she advertised as 163. She spoke five languages and was a classically trained pianist and violinist. She would later complain that the public did not care about her brains. "They're more interested in 40-21-35", she said. In 1950, she married Paul Mansfield, and the couple moved to Austin, Texas. They stayed there until Paul was called to United States Army Reserve for the Korean War. After spending a year at Camp Gordon, Georgia, they moved to Los Angeles in 1954. There she studied dramatics at UCLA. Between a variety of odd jobs, including a stint as a candy vendor at a movie theatre, she attended UCLA during the summer, and then went back to Texas for fall quarter at Southern Methodist University.While attending the University of Texas, she won several beauty contests, with titles that included "Miss Photoflash", "Miss Magnesium Lamp", and "Miss Fire Prevention Week". The only title she ever turned down was "Miss Roquefort Cheese", because she believed it "just didn't sound right". While studying at Dallas, she acted in small theater productions of Anything Goes, Death of a Salesman, The Slaves of Demon Rum, and Ten Nights in a Barroom in 1951. While at UCLA, she entered the Miss California contest, hiding her marital status, and won in the local round before withdrawing. Early in her career, the prominence of her breasts was considered problematic, leading her to be cut from her first professional assignment, an advertising campaign for General Electric, which depicted several young women in bathing suits relaxing around a pool. In 1954, she auditioned at both Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. for a part in The Seven Year Itch, failing to impress. That year, she landed her first acting assignment in Lux Video Theatre, a series on CBS. She posed nude for the February 1955 issue of Playboy, an event that helped to launch Mansfield's career and to push circulation of the magazine that started publishing from publisher-editor Hugh Hefner's kitchen the year before. In 1964, Playboy reran that pictorial.Mansfield's first movie role was as the supporting role of Candy Price in Female Jungle (1955), a low-budget drama filmed in just ten days. Mansfield's part was filmed in a few days and she received $150 for her performance ($1, 301 in 2012 dollars). Female Jungle was released in January 1955 by producer Burt Kaiser. That year Paul Wendkos offered her the dramatic role of Gladden in The Burglar (1957), his film adaptation of David Goodis' novel. The film was done in film noir style, and Mansfield appeared alongside Dan Duryea and Martha Vickers. The Burglar was released two years later, when Mansfield's fame was at its peak. She was successful in this straight dramatic role, though most of her subsequent film appearances would be either comedic in nature or capitalize on her sex appeal.On February 8, 1955, Mansfield was signed by Warner Bros. to a six month contract after one of its talent scouts discovered her in a production at the Pasadena Playhouse. She filed for divorce from her first husband, Paul Mansfield, the same day.[19] Warner wanted Mansfield as their version of the widely popular and lucrative Marilyn Monroe of 20th Century Fox. Mansfield was given a bit part in Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), which starred and was directed by Jack Webb. She made one more movie with Warner Bros., which gave her another small, but important role as Angel O'Hara, opposite Edward G. Robinson, in Illegal (1955). The film offered another rare serious performance by Mansfield. After leaving Warner Bros., Mansfield made an uncredited cameo appearance in Hell on Frisco Bay (1955), starring Alan Ladd.In 1955, she enjoyed a successful Broadway run acting in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?. This wild comedy starred Mansfield as Rita Marlowe, a wild blonde Hollywood actress. The play also starred Orson Bean and Walter Matthau. Returning to Hollywood on May 3, 1956, Mansfield signed a six-year contract with 20th Century Fox. Fox wanted Mansfield to replace Marilyn Monroe, their resident blonde sex symbol, and promoted her as "Marilyn Monroe King Sized". She was then given her first starring role as Jerri Jordan in the film production of Frank Tashlin's The Girl Can't Help It (1956). The film, originally titled Do-Re-Mi, featured a high-profile cast of contemporary Rock n Roll and R&B artists including Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Fats Domino, The Platters and Little Richard.Mansfield then played a dramatic role in The Wayward Bus in 1957. In this film, she attempted to move away from her "dumb blonde" image and establish herself as a serious actress. This film was adapted from John Steinbeck's novel, and the cast included Dan Dailey and Joan Collins. The film enjoyed reasonable success at the box office. She won a Golden Globe in 1957 for New Star Of The Year – Actress, beating Carroll Baker and Natalie Wood, for her performance as a "wistful derelict" in The Wayward Bus. It was "generally conceded to have been her best acting", according to The New York Times, in a fitful career hampered by her flamboyant image, distinctive voice ("a soft-voiced coo punctuated with squeals"), voluptuous figure, and limited acting range. Mansfield reprised her role of Rita Marlowe in the 1957 movie version of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, co-starring Tony Randall and Joan Blondell. The Girl Can't Help It and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? were popular successes in their day and are considered classics. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? is known as Mansfield's "signature film", because she starred in both the play and film version.Mansfield's fourth starring role in a Hollywood film was in Kiss Them for Me (1957) in which she received prominent billing alongside Cary Grant. However, in the film itself, she is little more than comedy relief while Grant's character shows a preference for a sleek, demure redhead portrayed by fashion model Suzy Parker. Kiss Them for Me, one of Mansfield's last starring roles, was a box office disappointment. The movie was described as "vapid" and "ill-advised". It also marked one of the last attempts by 20th Century Fox to publicize her. The continuing publicity around her physical presence failed to sustain her career. Mansfield was then offered a part opposite James Stewart and Jack Lemmon in Bell, Book and Candle (1958), but had to turn it down because of her pregnancy. Afterward, Mansfield got word that her rival Kim Novak would replace her in the film.In 1958, Fox gave Mansfield the lead role as Kate opposite Kenneth More in the western spoof The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. Despite being filmed in 1958, The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw was not released in the United States until 1959. The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw required Mansfield to sing three songs; she was not a trained singer, so the studio dubbed Mansfield's voice with singer/actress Connie Francis. When released in the United States, The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw became her last mainstream film success.Despite the publicity and her public popularity, good film roles dried up for Mansfield after 1959. She kept busy in a series of low-budget films, mostly made in Europe. Fox tried to cast Mansfield opposite Paul Newman in his ill-fated first attempt at comedy, Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958), but Mansfield's Wayward Bus co-star Joan Collins was selected instead.In 1959, Fox lent her to appear in two independent gangster thrillers in England: The Challenge, co-starring Anthony Quayle, and Too Hot to Handle, co-starring Christopher Lee. Both films were low-budgeted, and their American releases were delayed; Too Hot to Handle was released in the U.S. in 1961 as Playgirl After Dark, while The Challenge would not be seen by American audiences until 1963, under the title It Takes a Thief.When she returned to Hollywood in mid-1960, 20th Century-Fox cast her in It Happened in Athens (1962). She received first billing above the title, but only appears in a supporting role. It Happened in Athens starred a handsome newcomer, Trax Colton, a "unknown" whom Fox was trying to mold into a big star. This Olympic Games-based film was shot in Greece, in the fall of 1960, but was not released until June 1962. It was a box-office flop, and Mansfield's 20th Century-Fox contract was dropped.In 1961, Mansfield signed on to play Lisa Lang in The George Raft Story, starring Ray Danton as the actor. She accepted the part mainly for the money and because the film was going to be filmed in Hollywood, rather in Europe. Soon after the release of The George Raft Story, Mansfield returned to European films to find work. Over the next few years, Mansfield mainly appeared in low-budgeted foreign films, such as Panic Button, Heimweh nach St. Pauli, Einer Frisst den anderen, and, L'Amore Primitivo.In 1963, Tommy Noonan persuaded Mansfield to become the first mainstream American actress to appear nude with a starring role, in the film Promises! Promises!. Photographs of a naked Mansfield on the set were published in the June 1963 issue of Playboy, which resulted in obscenity charges being filed against Hugh Hefner in Chicago municipal court. Promises! Promises! was banned in Cleveland, but enjoyed box office success elsewhere. As a result of the film's success, Mansfield landed on the Top 10 list of Box Office Attractions for that year. The autobiographical book, Jayne Mansfield's Wild, Wild World, which she co-authored with her husband at the time, Mickey Hargitay, was published right after Promises! Promises!, containing 32 pages of black-and-white photographs from the film printed on glossy paper.In 1966, Mansfield was cast in Single Room Furnished, directed by her then husband Matt Cimber. The film required Mansfield to portray three different characters and was Mansfield's first starring dramatic role in several years. It was briefly released in 1966, but was not officially released until 1968, almost a year after her death.After the filming of Single Room Furnished was wrapped, Mansfield was cast opposite Mamie Van Doren and Ferlin Husky in The Las Vegas Hillbillys, a low-budget comedy released by Woolner Brothers. Despite her career setbacks, Mansfield remained a highly visible personality through the early 1960s through her publicity antics and stage performances. In early 1967, Mansfield filmed her last film role: playing a cameo role in A Guide for the Married Man, a comedy starring Walter Matthau, Robert Morse, and Inger Stevens. Mansfield received seventh billing as "Girl with Harold".Mansfield acted on stage as well as in film. In 1955, she went to New York and appeared in a prominent role in the Broadway production of George Axelrod's comedy Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times described the "commendable abandon" of her scantily clad rendition of Rita Marlowe in the play as "a platinum-pated movie siren with the wavy contours of Marilyn Monroe". In October 1957, Mansfield went on a 16-country tour of Europe for 20th Century Fox. She also appeared in stage productions of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Bus Stop, which were well reviewed and co-starred Hargitay.Dissatisfied with her film roles, Mansfield and Hargitay headlined at the Dunes in Las Vegas in an act called The House of Love, for which the actress earned $35, 000 a week ($303, 652 in 2012 dollars). It proved to be such a hit that she extended her stay, and 20th Century Fox Records subsequently recorded the show for an album called Jayne Mansfield Busts Up Las Vegas, in 1962. With her film career floundering, she still commanded a salary of $8, 000–25, 000 per week for her nightclub act ($61, 000–192, 000 in 2012 dollars). She traveled all over the world with it. In 1967, the year she died, Mansfield's time was split between nightclub performances and the production of her last film, A Guide for the Married Man, a high-budget production directed by Gene Kelly.Jayne Mansfield sang in English and German for a number of her films including The Las Vegas Hillbillys, Too Hot to Handle, Homesick for St. Pauli and Promises! Promises!, though in the film The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw her character lip synced to Connie Francis singing In The valley Of Love, Strolling Down The Lane With Billy, and If The San Francisco Hills Could Only Talk. She also had classical training in piano and violin. She played violin with a six person back-up at The Ed Sullivan Show.In 1964, Mansfield released a novelty album called Jayne Mansfield: Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me, in which she recited Shakespeare's sonnets and poems by Marlowe, Browning, Wordsworth, and others against a background of Tchaikovsky's music. The album cover depicted a bouffant-coiffed Mansfield with lips pursed and breasts barely covered by a fur stole, posing between busts of Tchaikovsky and Shakespeare. The New York Times described the album a reading of "30-odd poems in a husky, urban, baby voice". The paper's reviewer went on to remark that "Miss Mansfield is a lady with apparent charms, but reading poetry is not one of them." Jimi Hendrix played bass and lead guitar for Mansfield in 1965 in two songs, "As The Clouds Drift By" and "Suey", released together on two sides of the 45 rpm singles. According to Hendrix historian Steven Roby (Black Gold: The Lost Archives Of Jimi Hendrix, Billboard Books), this collaboration happened because they shared the same manager.Mansfield appeared in numerous television programs, including The Ed Sullivan Show and The Jack Benny Program (for which she played the violin), The Steve Allen Show, Down You Go, The Match Game (one rare episode exists with her as a team captain) and The Jackie Gleason Show (in the mid-1960s when the show was the second highest rated in the U.S.). Mansfield's television roles included those in Burke's Law and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. On returning from New York to Hollywood in 1957, she made several television appearances, including several spots as a featured guest star on game shows such as Down You Go, The Match Game, and What's My Line?.Though her acting roles were becoming marginalized, in 1964 Mansfield turned down the role of Ginger Grant on the up-and-coming television sitcom Gilligan's Island, claiming that the role, which eventually was given to Tina Louise, epitomized the stereotype of which she wished to rid herself. In 1962, Mansfield appeared with Brian Keith on ABC's Follow the Sun dramatic series in an acclaimed episode entitled "The Dumbest Blonde" in which her character "Scottie" is a beautiful blonde who feels insecure in the high society of her older boyfriend, played by Keith. The plot was based on the film of Born Yesterday. She also toured with Bob Hope for the USO in 1957. In February 1955, Mansfield was the Playmate of the Month in Playboy, in which she subsequently appeared over 30 times. Although Mansfield was reluctant to appear in the play, she received the Theatre World Award of 1956 for her performance in the Broadway production of George Axelrod's comedy Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?. Mansfield won a Golden Globe in 1957 for New Star Of The Year – Actress. Mansfield won a Golden Laurel in 1959 for Top Female Musical Performance for her role in The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, a western spoof directed by Raoul Walsh. although the songs were performed by Connie Francis. In 1963, Mansfield was voted one of the Top 10 Box Office Attractions by an organization of American theater owners for her performance in Promises! Promises!, a film banned in areas around the U.S. Mansfield has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6328 Hollywood Boulevard.Mansfield was married three times, divorced twice, and had five children. Reportedly she also had affairs and sexual encounters with numerous individuals, including Claude Terrail (the owner of the Paris restaurant La Tour d'Argent), Robert F. Kennedy, John F Kennedy, the Brazilian billionaire Jorge Guinle, and Anton LaVey. She had a brief affair with Jan Cremer, a young Dutch writer who dedicated his 1965 autobiographical novel, I, Jan Cremer, to her. She also had a well-publicized relationship in 1963 with the singer Nelson Sardelli, whom she said she planned to marry once her divorce from Hargitay was finalized. At the time of her death, Mansfield was accompanied by Sam Brody, her married divorce lawyer and lover at the time.On May 6, 1950, Vera Jayne Palmer married Paul Mansfield. At the time of marriage Jayne was 17 and Paul 21. The couple had a public wedding on May 10, 1950 when Jayne was three months pregnant. Her early acting aspirations were temporarily put on hold with the birth of her first child, Jayne Marie Mansfield, on November 8 that year. Her husband, Paul Mansfield, hoped the birth of their child would discourage her interest in acting. When it did not, he agreed to move to Los Angeles in late 1954 to help further her career. She juggled motherhood and classes at the University of Texas, then spent a year at Camp Gordon, Georgia, while Paul Mansfield served in the United States Armed Forces. They were divorced on January 8, 1958. Two weeks before her mother's death in 1967, Jayne Marie, then 16, accused her mother's boyfriend at that time, Sam Brody, of beating her. The girl's statement to officers of the Los Angeles Police Department the following morning implicated her mother in encouraging the abuse, and days later, a juvenile court judge awarded temporary custody of Jayne Marie to a great-uncle, W.W. Pigue.Mansfield met her second husband Mickey Hargitay, an actor and bodybuilder who had won the Mr. Universe competition in 1955, for the first time at The Mae West Show at New York City's Latin Quarter nightclub, telling the waiter asking for her order, "I'll have a steak and that tall man on the left." In November 1957, shortly before her marriage to Hargitay, Mansfield bought a 40-room Mediterranean-style mansion formerly owned by Rudy Vallee at 10100 Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills. Mansfield had the house painted pink, with cupids surrounded by pink fluorescent lights, pink furs in the bathrooms, a pink heart-shaped bathtub, and a fountain spurting pink champagne, and then dubbed it the Pink Palace. Hargitay, a plumber and carpenter before getting into bodybuilding, built a pink heart-shaped swimming pool. Mansfield decorated the Pink Palace by writing to furniture and building suppliers requesting free samples. She received over $150, 000 ($1, 241, 232 in 2012 dollars) worth of free merchandise while paying only $76, 000 ($628, 891 in 2012 dollars) for the mansion itself, a large sum nonetheless when the average house cost was under $7, 500 ($620, 616 in 2012 dollars) at the time.Mansfield and Hargitay married on January 13, 1958 at the Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. The unique glass chapel made public and press viewing of the wedding much easier. Mansfield wore a transparent wedding gown, adding to the occasion's publicity aspect. Mansfield and her husband toured widely for stage shows, where her leopard-spot bikini became a topic of discussion and newspaper coverage. During this marriage she had two children, Miklós Jeffrey Palmer Hargitay (born December 21, 1958) and Zoltán Anthony Hargitay (born August 1, 1960). The couple divorced in Juarez, Mexico in May 1963. After the divorce, Mansfield discovered she was pregnant. Since being an unwed mother would have killed her career, Mansfield and Hargitay announced they were still married. Mariska Magdolna Hargitay was born January 23, 1964, after the actual divorce but before California ruled it valid. Mansfield's third child also became an actress, best known for her role as Olivia Benson in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. After her birth, Mansfield sued for the Juarez divorce to be declared legal and won. The divorce was recognized in the United States on August 26, 1964. She had previously filed for divorce on May 4, 1962, but told reporters, "I'm sure we will make it up." Their acrimonious divorce had the actress accusing Hargitay of kidnapping one of her children to force a more favorable financial settlement.Mansfield married Matt Cimber (a.k.a. Matteo Ottaviano, né Thomas Vitale Ottaviano) an Italian-born film director on September 24, 1964. The couple separated on July 11, 1965, and filed for divorce on July 20, 1966. Cimber was a director with whom the actress had become involved when he directed her in a widely praised stage production of Bus Stop in Yonkers, New York, which costarred Hargitay. Cimber took over managing her career during their marriage. With him she had one son, Antonio Raphael Ottaviano (a.k.a. Tony Cimber, born October 18, 1965). Work on Mansfield's film, Single Room Furnished (in 1966), was suspended as her marriage to Cimber began to collapse in the wake of Mansfield's alcohol abuse, open infidelities, and her claim to Cimber that she had only ever been happy with her former lover, Nelson Sardelli.Mansfield appeared in about 2, 500 newspaper photographs between September 1956 and May 1957, and had about 122, 000 lines of newspaper copy written about her during this time. Because of the successful media blitz, Mansfield was a household name. Throughout her career, Mansfield was compared by the media to the reigning sex symbol of the period, Marilyn Monroe. Of this comparison, she said, "I don't know why you people [the press] like to compare me to Marilyn or that girl, what's her name, Kim Novak. Cleavage, of course, helped me a lot to get where I am. I don't know how they got there." Even with her film roles drying up she was widely considered to be Monroe's primary rival in a crowded field of contenders that included Mamie Van Doren (whom Mansfield considered her professional nemesis), Diana Dors, Cleo Moore, Barbara Nichols, Beverly Michaels, Greta Thyssen, Joi Lansing, and Sheree North.In April 1957, her bosom was the feature of a notorious publicity stunt intended to deflect attention from Sophia Loren during a dinner party in the Italian star's honor. Photographs of the encounter were published around the world. The most famous image showed Loren's gaze falling upon the cleavage of the American actress who, sitting between Loren and her dinner companion, Clifton Webb, had leaned over the table, allowing her breasts to spill over her low neckline and exposing one nipple. The image was one of several taken in the same minutes as the image visible right. A similar incident, resulting in the full exposure of both breasts, occurred during a film festival in West Berlin, when Mansfield was wearing a low-cut dress and her second husband, Mickey Hargitay, picked her up so she could bite a bunch of grapes hanging overhead at a party; the movement caused her breasts to erupt out of the dress. The photograph of that episode was a UPI sensation, appearing in newspapers and magazines with the word "censored" hiding the actress's exposed bosom.The world's media were quick to condemn Mansfield's stunts, and one editorial columnist wrote, "We are amused when Miss Mansfield strains to pull in her stomach to fill out her bikini better. But we get angry when career-seeking women, shady ladies, and certain starlets and actresses ... use every opportunity to display their anatomy unasked." By the late 1950s, Mansfield began to generate a great deal of negative publicity because of her repeated successful attempts to expose her breasts in carefully staged public "accidents".Mansfield's most celebrated physical attributes would fluctuate in size as a result of her pregnancies and breast feeding five children. Her smallest measurement was 40D (102 cm) (which she was throughout the 1950s), and largest at 46DD (117 cm), when measured by the press in 1967. According to Playboy, her measurement was 40D-21-36 (102-53-91 cm) and her height was 5'6" (1.68 m). According to her autopsy report, she was 5'8" (1.73 m). Her bosom was so much a part of her public persona that talk-show host Jack Paar once welcomed the actress to The Tonight Show by saying, "Here they are, Jayne Mansfield", a line that was written for Paar by Dick Cavett, later becoming the title of her biography by Raymond Strait. Almost half a century after her death, a biographer of Nikolaus Pevsner (a German-born writer on British architecture), noted the improbable coincidence that Pevsner and Mansfield had once stayed at the same hotel in Bolton, Lancashire. There, she had "electrified the dining room with her imposing bosom".While in Biloxi, Mississippi, for an engagement at the Gus Stevens Supper Club, Mansfield stayed at the Cabana Courtyard Apartments near the supper club. After an evening engagement on June 28, 1967, Mansfield, her lover Sam Brody, and their driver, Ronnie Harrison, along with the actress's children Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska, set out in Stevens' 1966 Buick Electra 225 for New Orleans, where Mansfield was to appear in an early morning television interview. Before leaving Biloxi, the party made a stop at the home of Rupert and Edna O'Neal, a family that lived nearby. After a late dinner with the O'Neals, during which the last photographs of Mansfield were taken, the party set out for New Orleans. On June 29, at approximately 2:25 a.m., on U.S. Highway 90 east of the Rigolets Bridge, the car crashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer that had slowed because of a truck spraying mosquito fogger. The automobile struck the rear of the trailer and went under it. Riding in the front seat, the three adults were killed instantly. The children in the rear survived with minor injuries.Rumors that Mansfield was decapitated are untrue, though she did suffer severe head trauma. This urban legend was spawned by the appearance in police photographs of a crashed automobile with its top virtually sheared off, and what resembles a blonde-haired head tangled in the car's smashed windshield. This was likely either a wig Mansfield was wearing or was her actual hair and scalp. The death certificate stated the immediate cause of Mansfield's death was a "crushed skull with avulsion of cranium and brain". Following her death, the NHTSA began requiring an underride guard, a strong bar made of steel tubing, to be installed on all tractor-trailers. This bar is also known as a Mansfield bar, and on occasions as a DOT bar.Mansfield's funeral was held on July 3, in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania. The ceremony was conducted by a Methodist minister, though Mansfield, who long tried to convert to Catholicism, had become interested in Judaism at the end of her life through her relationship with Sam Brody. She is interred in Fairview Cemetery, southeast of Pen Argyl. Her gravestone was shaped as a heart and reads "We Live to Love You More Each Day". A memorial cenotaph, showing an incorrect birth year, was erected in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, California. The cenotaph was placed by The Jayne Mansfield Fan Club and has the incorrect birth year because Mansfield herself tended to provide incorrect information about her age.Shortly after Mansfield's funeral, Mickey Hargitay sued his former wife's estate for more than $275, 000 ($1.92 million in 2012 dollars) to support the children, whom he and his third and last wife, Ellen Siano, would raise. Mansfield's youngest child, Tony, was raised by his father, Matt Cimber, whose divorce from the actress was pending when she was killed. In 1968, wrongful-death lawsuits were filed on behalf of Jayne Marie Mansfield and Matt Cimber, the former for $4.8 million ($39.7 million in 2012 dollars) and the latter for $2.7 million ($22.3 million in 2012 dollars). The Pink Palace was sold and its subsequent owners have included Ringo Starr, Cass Elliot, and Engelbert Humperdinck. In 2002, Humperdinck sold it to developers, and the house was demolished in November of that year. Much of her estate is managed by CMG Worldwide, an intellectual property management company.In 1980, The Jayne Mansfield Story aired on CBS starring Loni Anderson in the title role and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mickey Hargitay. It was nominated for three Emmy Awards. In 1991, British band Siouxsie and the Banshees scored a U.S. top 20 hit-single with "Kiss Them For Me", a song which is an ode to Mansfield. Lyrics include the actress' catchword "divoon", referring to her heart-shaped swimming pool and her love of champagne and parties, and to the grisly automobile accident.Film appearances Release year US Release year Movie Title Alternative title Production country Role Selected Co-actors Director Producer Notes 1955 1955 Female Jungle The Hangover United States Candy Price Burt Kaiser, Kathleen Crowley Bruno VeSota Burt Kaiser, Kathleen Crowley 1955 1955 Pete Kelly's Blues — United States Cigarette Girl Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien, Peggy Lee Jack Webb Warner Bros. Uncredited 1955 1955 Underwater! — United States Girl in Bikini by Pool Jane Russell, Richard Egan, Lori Nelson John Sturges RKO Radio Pictures Uncredited 1955 1955 Illegal — United States Angel O'Hara Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe Lewis Allen Warner Bros. 1955 1955 Hell on Frisco Bay — United States Mario's dance partner in nightclub Alan Ladd, Fay Wray Frank Tuttle Jaguar Productions Uncredited 1956 1956 The Girl Can't Help It — United States Jerri Jordan Tom Ewell, Edmond O'Brien, Julie London, Ray Anthony Frank Tashlin 20th Century Fox 1957 1957 The Burglar — United States Gladden Dan Duryea, Martha Vickers, Peter Capell, Mickey Shaughnessy Paul Wendkos Columbia Pictures Filmed in 1955 1957 1957 The Wayward Bus — United States Camille Oakes Joan Collins, Dan Dailey Victor Vicas 20th Century Fox 1957 1957 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Oh! For a Man! (UK) United States Rita Marlowe Tony Randall, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams, Henry Jones Frank Tashlin 20th Century Fox 1957 1957 Kiss Them for Me — United States Alice Kratzner Cary Grant, Leif Erickson, Suzy Parker Stanley Donen Sol C. Siegel 1958 1959 The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw — United States Kate Kenneth More, Henry Hull, Bruce Cabot Raoul Walsh 20th Century Fox 1960 1963 The Challenge It Takes a Thief (U.S.) United Kingdom Billy Anthony Quayle, Carl Möhner, Peter Reynolds John Gilling Alexandra 1960 1961 Too Hot to Handle Playgirl After Dark (U.S.) United Kingdom Midnight Franklin Leo Genn, Karlheinz Böhm, Christopher Lee Terence Young Wigmore Productions 1960 Never released The Loves of Hercules Gli Amori di Ercole (Italy),
Les Amours d'Hercule (France),
Hercules vs. the Hydra (TV title) Italy Queen Dianira/ Hippolyta Mickey Hargitay, Massimo Serato Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia Contact Organisation 1961 1961 The George Raft Story Spin of a Coin (UK) United States Lisa Lang Ray Danton, Julie London, Barrie Chase Joseph M. Newman Allied Artists Pictures 1962 1962 It Happened in Athens — United States (filmed in Greece) Eleni Costa Trax Colton, Nico Minardos, Bob Mathias Andrew Marton 20th Century Fox Filmed in the fall of 1960 1963 Never released Heimweh nach St. Pauli Homesick for St. Pauli (U.S.) Germany Evelyne Freddy Quinn, Josef Albrecht, Ullrich Haupt Werner Jacobs Rapid Film 1963 1963 Promises! Promises! Promise Her Anything (some releases) United States Sandy Brooks Marie McDonald, Tommy Noonan, Mickey Hargitay King Donovan Tommy Noonan-Donald F. Taylor 1964 1966 L'Amore Primitivo Primitive Love (U.S.) Italy Dr. Jane Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Mickey Hargitay Luigi Scattini G.L.M. 1964 1964 Panic Button Let's Go Bust (U.S.) United States (filmed in Italy) Angela Maurice Chevalier, Eleanor Parker, Mike Connors George Sherman, Giuliano Carnimeo Gordon Films Filmed in 1962 1964 1966 Einer Frisst den anderen Dog Eat Dog! (U.S.) Germany Darlene/ Mrs. Smithopolis Cameron Mitchell, Dodie Heath, Ivor Salter Richard E. Cunha, Gustav Gavrin Dubrava Film 1966 1966 The Fat Spy — United States Junior Wellington Phyllis Diller, Jack E. Leonard Joseph Cates Woolner Brothers 1966 1966 The Las Vegas Hillbillys Country Music United States Tawny Phyllis Diller, Jack E. Leonard, Brian Donlevy Arthur Pierson Woolner Brothers 1967 1967 A Guide for the Married Man — United States Technical Adviser (Girl with Harold) Walter Matthau, Inger Stevens Gene Kelly 20th Century Fox Cameo appearance. 1968 1968 Single Room Furnished — United States Johnnie/ Mae/ Eileen Dorothy Keller, Fabian Dean, Billy M. Greene Matt Cimber Empire Film Studios Posthumous release. Filmed in mid-1966. Documentary appearancesTV Reflets de Cannes (1956) Cinépanorama (1964)Cinema Lykke og krone (1962) Directors: Colbjörn Helander, Stein Sælen; Stars: François Chalais, Henri-Georges Clouzot and Eddie Constantine Spree (1967) Directors: Walon Green, Mitchell Leisen; Writer: Sydney Field; Stars: Constance Moore, Mickey Hargitay and Vic Damone Mondo Hollywood (1967) Director: Robert Carl Cohen; Writer: Robert Carl Cohen; Stars: Margaretta Ramsey, Dale Davisand Theodore Charach The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield (1968) Directors: Charles W. Broun Jr., Joel Holt, Arthur Knight; Writer: Charles Ross; Stars: Jayne Mansfield, Robert Jason and Fernand AubreyTelevision workAs an actress Sunday Spectacular: The Bachelor, NBC (July 1956) Shower of Stars, Desilu Productions, Season 3, Episode 4 ("Star Time", January 1957) Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium, Associated Television, Season 3, Episode 1 (September 1957) The Red Skelton Hour, CBS, Season 9, Episode 2 ("Clem's General Store", October 1959) After Hours, ABC Weekend Television, Season 2, Episode 13 (December 1959) Kraft Mystery Theater, Season 1, Episode 12 ("The House of Rue Riviera", August 1961) Follow the Sun, 20th Century Fox Television, Season 1, Episode 21 ("The Dumbest Blonde", February 1962) Monte Carlo, 20th Century Fox Television (August 1961) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Season 1, Episode 12 ("Hangover", December 1962) The Red Skelton Hour, CBS, Season 11, Episode 1 ("Will Success Spoil Clem Kadiddlehopper"?, September 1961) The Red Skelton Hour, CBS, Season 12, Episode 21 ("Advice to the Loveworn", February 1963) Amos Burke, Secret Agent, Four Star Television, Season 1, Episode 26 ("Who Killed Molly"?, March 1964)As herself The Bob Hope Show, Hope Enterprise, Season 17, Episode 4 (A Bob Hope Comedy Special, December 1966) What's My Line?, CBS, 4 Episodes; dated: 1956, 1957, 1964, 1966 The Ed Sullivan Show (also named Toast of the Town), CBS, Season 10, Episode 35 (May 1957) The Ed Sullivan Show, CBS, Season 10, Episode 46 (August 1957) The Jack Benny Program, J&M Productions, Season 7, Episode 8 ("Talent Show", December 1956) The Jack Benny Program, J&M Productions, Season 14, Episode 9 ("Jack Takes Boat to Hawaii", November 1963) The Tonight Show, NBC, ("The Jack Paar Tonight Show", January 1962) The Tonight Show, NBC, (April 1962)DiscographyAlbums Jayne Mansfield Busts up Las Vegas (20th Century Fox, 1962) Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me (MGM, 1964) I Wanna Be Loved By You (Golden Options, 2000) Dyed Blondes (Recall Records, 2002) Too Hot to Handle (Blue Moon, France, 2003)Singles That Makes It (The Las Vegas Hillbillys) Too Hot to Handle (Too Hot to Handle) Little Things Mean a Lot As The Clouds Drift By (with Jimi Hendrix, A-side) Suey (with Jimi Hendrix, B-side) You Were Made for Me Wo Ist Der Mann (Homesick for St. Pauli) Snicksnack-Snucklchen (Homesick for St. Pauli) I'm in love (also known as the Lullaby of Love; Promises! Promises!) Promise her anything (Promises! Promises!) It's a LivingTheater performances Death of a Salesman (1953) Bus Stop (1965) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1966) Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955–1956) Rabbit Habit (1965)(courtesy of wikipedia)
This is the original negative (film) that was in the camera at the time of the photo shoot and is therefore the only one of its kind in existence. (Please note this listing is for a camera negative, not a photograph. The scan is of its positive view.)RIGHTS: The PETER BASCH FAMILY TRUST is the sole and exclusive copyright owner of the listed image(s). No rights are included in this offering. - SIZE: 2 1/4"- TONE: B&W- CONDITION: Fine, with moderate spotting._______________________________________________________________ CONDITION GRADING Excellent: Very nearly pristine, with no more than trivial flaws. Very Fine: One or two minor defects and only the slightest handling wear. Fine: Minor flaws, with slight handling or surface flaws. Very Good: Slight scuffing, rippling, minor surface impressions. Good: Visibly used with small areas of wear, which may include surface impressions and spotting. Fair: Visibly damaged with extensive wear. SHIPPING TERMS - I ship all items using, what I call, triple protection packing. The photos are inserted into a display bag with a white board, then packed in between thick packaging boards and lastly wrapped with plastic film for weather protection before being placed into the shipping envelope. - The shipping cost for U.S. shipments includes USPS "Delivery Confirmation" tracking. - I am happy to combine multiple wins at no additional cost. Please wait for me to issue the invoice before making payment. PAYMENT TERMS - Please pay within three (3) days of purchase. - I reserve the right to re-list the item(s) if payment is not received within seven (7) days. - eBay SALES TAX COLLECTION - In November 2019, eBay and PayPal changed the way taxes are collected and remitted.
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After moving back to Germany, Arthur Basch kept his American citizenship, and passed it to his children and, thence, to his grandchildren. When the Basch family arrived in New York in 1933, they opened a restaurant on Central Park South in the Navarro Hotel. The restaurant, Gretel's Viennese, became a hangout for the Austrian expatriate community. Peter Basch had his first job there as a waiter. While in New York, Basch attended the De Witt Clinton High School. The family moved to Los Angeles to assist in Basch's father's career, during which time Basch went to school in England. Upon returning to the United States, Basch joined the Army. He was mobilized in the US Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit, where he worked as a script boy. After the war, he started attending UCLA and started taking photographs of young starlets working with other photographers and film studios. His mother asked him to join her back in New York after she and his father decided that Basch should be a photographer and they obtained a photography studio for their son. For over twenty years, Peter Basch had a successful career as a magazine photographer. He was known for his images of celebrities, artists, dancers, actors, starlets, and glamour-girls in America and Europe. His photos appeared in many major magazines such as Life, Look and Playboy.The Peter Basch Collection includes iconic images of all the major midcentury stars, from Europe and America. These masterful images are a window onto a time we cannot forget, when movie stars stepped out of the studio’s control, and we began to see these larger-than-life performers as full, three-dimensional personalities. Basch’s images capture the heart and spirit of these glamorous performers. Taking pictures in natural light, out in the world, we see these stars as full human beings, not the carefully made-up, studio-approved icons of oldfashioned Hollywood. Basch was able to capture the moments of a human being’s spirit, their mercurial reactions, all the facets that made these magnetic individuals the stars they were. Basch authored and co-authored a number of books containing his photographs including: Candid Photography (1958 with Peter Gowland Basch and Don Ornitz Basch) Peter Basch's Glamour Photography (A Fawcett How-To Book) (1958) Peter Basch photographs beauties of the world (1958) Camera in Rome (1963 with Nathan and Simon Basch) Peter Basch Photographs 100 Famous Beauties (1965) The nude as form & figure (1966) Put a Girl in Your Pocket: The Artful Camera of Peter Basch (1969) Peter Basch's Guide to Figure Photography (1975 with Jack Rey) Thoughts on Peter Basch by his daughter: "My Father, Peter Basch, saw. He looked and he saw. He taught me to see. He taught me to listen and hear. We used to play a game when I was little. He’d say, Michele, look at the street then look at me, what did you see? I would list the cars, red, black, navy; people, fat, tall, thin; children, parents; trees and plants. He would add the detail. A blue car with New York plates, a black car with New Jersey plates. The people were not just tall or small, thin or fat, they wore coats or sweaters, they laughed or were sad. The trees had leaves, were close together, the green was dark, vivid, the sun playing with the shadow. My Father saw. He captured in his mind and on film the unexpected moment in time, the interaction between two people, the look, the thought, the breath that punctuated the decision. My Father was one of the great romantics. He had a true love and appreciation of beauty in its purest form. We would talk about BEAUTY and her differences: natural, Hollywood, young, old and the beauty of communication, interaction, the Beauty of the moment. He recorded the breath in time on film: two ladies in Paris reading the paper, a Dachshund looking around the corner, a chair in front of the Eiffel Tower. My Father saw the thought and seized it for posterity. My Father understood the language light speaks to shadow. He showed me how the sun plays with dark. His favorite moment was at Sunrise when the shadows were long and soft. He saw every hue from white to black and everything in between. He understood the language, taught and published books on Light and Shadow, Form and Figure. I traveled through Europe with my Father. I was his assistant! And proud of it! I was the camera person! Changed the film, made sure the lens was clean, stood in during special poses, helped in the dark room, retouched to refine and perfect. I loved watching him talk and listen. He listened to Jane Fonda, Ursula Andress, Brigit Bardot, Fellini, Mastroiani and so many more. He listened and recorded the answer, the thought, that moment of indecision, realization and Seduction." Film Assignments: 8½ - Fellini Jules et Jim - Truffaut Bijoutiers du Clair de Lune - Vadim The Vice and the Virtue - Vadim Fearless Vampire Killers - Polanski Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - De Sica Une Femme Est Une Femme Goddard Fear - Rosselini Cartouche - De Broca Giant - Stevens Anne Frank - Stevens Guys and Dolls - Mankiewicz Horse Soldiers - Ford Majority of One - Leroy Walk on the Wild Side - Dmytryk Wild in the Streets - Spear Leonidas - Matte The Day the Fish Came Out - Cocayannis The Pawnbroker - Lumet La Verite - Clouzot La Loi Sacree - Pabst Baby Doll - Kazan Summertime - Lean The 13 Most Beautiful Girls - Warhol The Three Sisters - Bogart Francis of Assissi - Curtiz The Swimmer Perry Cape Fear The Man Who Had Power Over Women The Spy With The Cold Nose Winnetou Mata Hari Exhibitions: 2002 Jewish Museum - Vienna Austria “Vom Grossvater vertrieben” 2002 LEICA Gallery, NYC Portrait of Al Hirschfeld 2001 National Portrait Gallery -- London Dame Elizabeth (Taylor) 2001 Fahey-Klein Gallery, LA Group Show/Great Directors 2001 Museum/City of New York, Al Hirschfeld Exhibit 2000 Museum of Modern Art, NY, Brigitte Bardot 1999 Vienna, Austria – “übersee” 1999 Stadt Museum, Munich, Germany “TWEN” exhibit 1997 Museum of the Moving Image – Grace Kelly 1996 Staley Wise Gallery, NY “Shooting Stars” – one man show 1980s Museum of Modern Art, NY, Sophia Loren LA County Museum "Masters of Starlight" (subsequently traveled to Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan) Stadt Museum, Munich, Germany “AKT” (nudes) __________________________________________________________________JAYNE MANSFIELD BIO
(born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American actress who worked in Hollywood and on Broadway. One of the leading blonde sex symbols of the late-1950s, Mansfield starred in several popular Hollywood films that emphasized her platinum-blonde hair, hourglass figure, and cleavage-revealing costumes. 20th Century Fox signed a six-year contact with Mansfield to replace Marilyn Monroe as their resident blonde sex symbol. Throughout her career, she was compared by the media to Monroe and the other top sex symbol Mamie Van Doren. Mansfield was a Playboy Playmate of the Month and appeared in the magazine on several occasions.While Mansfield's film career was short-lived, she had several box office successes and won the Theatre World Award, a Golden Globe, and a Golden Laurel. In 1955, she enjoyed a successful Broadway run acting in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and later the film of the same name in 1957. She is remembered for both this film and a starring role in the comedy film The Girl Can't Help It (1956), which was also produced by 20th Century Fox. Of her rare on-screen dramatic roles, her performance in The Wayward Bus (1957) is regarded as the best. She also sang for studio recordings including the album Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me and the singles Suey and As The Clouds Drift By done together with rock legend Jimi Hendrix. Mansfield's notable television work included The Red Skelton Show (1959–1963) and The Ed Sullivan Show (1957).As the demand for blonde bombshells declined in the 1960s, Mansfield remained a popular celebrity, continuing to attract large crowds outside the U.S. and in lucrative and successful nightclub tours. Her film career continued with lower budget melodramas and comedies, many filmed in the United Kingdom and Europe, including Heimweh nach St. Pauli and L'Amore Primitivo. In the independent film Promises! Promises! (1963), she became the first major American actress to have a nude starring role in a Hollywood motion-picture.In her personal life she was successively married to her childhood lover Paul Mansfield (1950–1958), actor-bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay (1958–1963) and film director Matt Cimber (1964–1966). She was the mother of playmate Jayne Marie Mansfield (born 1950), Miklós Jeffrey Palmer Hargitay (born 1958), Zoltán Anthony Hargitay (born 1960), actress Mariska Magdolna Hargitay (born 1964) and Antonio "Tony" Cimber (born 1965). Mansfield died in an automobile accident at age 34. Jayne Mansfield Playboy centerfold appearance February 1955 Preceded by Bettie Page Succeeded by Marilyn Waltz Personal details Measurements Bust: 40 in (100 cm)
Waist: 21 in (53 cm)
Hips: 35 in (89 cm) Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) (5 ft 8 in according to her autopsy) Jayne Mansfield was the only child of Herbert William and Vera (née Jeffrey) Palmer (1903–2003). Her birth name was Vera Jayne Palmer. A natural brunette, she was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, but spent her early childhood in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. She was of German and English ancestry. When she was three years old, her father, a lawyer who was in practice with future New Jersey governor Robert B. Meyner, died of a heart attack while driving a car with his wife and daughter. After his death, her mother worked as a school teacher. In 1939, when Vera Palmer married Sale Engineer Harry Peers, the family moved to Dallas, Texas.She attended the University of Texas at Austin and studied dramatics at the University of Dallas, having only attended Highland Park High School until her junior year. In Dallas, she became a student of actor Baruch Lumet, father of director Sidney Lumet and founder of the Dallas Institute of the Performing Arts. On October 22, 1953, she first appeared on stage in a production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Frequent references have been made to Mansfield's very high IQ, which she advertised as 163. She spoke five languages and was a classically trained pianist and violinist. She would later complain that the public did not care about her brains. "They're more interested in 40-21-35", she said. In 1950, she married Paul Mansfield, and the couple moved to Austin, Texas. They stayed there until Paul was called to United States Army Reserve for the Korean War. After spending a year at Camp Gordon, Georgia, they moved to Los Angeles in 1954. There she studied dramatics at UCLA. Between a variety of odd jobs, including a stint as a candy vendor at a movie theatre, she attended UCLA during the summer, and then went back to Texas for fall quarter at Southern Methodist University.While attending the University of Texas, she won several beauty contests, with titles that included "Miss Photoflash", "Miss Magnesium Lamp", and "Miss Fire Prevention Week". The only title she ever turned down was "Miss Roquefort Cheese", because she believed it "just didn't sound right". While studying at Dallas, she acted in small theater productions of Anything Goes, Death of a Salesman, The Slaves of Demon Rum, and Ten Nights in a Barroom in 1951. While at UCLA, she entered the Miss California contest, hiding her marital status, and won in the local round before withdrawing. Early in her career, the prominence of her breasts was considered problematic, leading her to be cut from her first professional assignment, an advertising campaign for General Electric, which depicted several young women in bathing suits relaxing around a pool. In 1954, she auditioned at both Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. for a part in The Seven Year Itch, failing to impress. That year, she landed her first acting assignment in Lux Video Theatre, a series on CBS. She posed nude for the February 1955 issue of Playboy, an event that helped to launch Mansfield's career and to push circulation of the magazine that started publishing from publisher-editor Hugh Hefner's kitchen the year before. In 1964, Playboy reran that pictorial.Mansfield's first movie role was as the supporting role of Candy Price in Female Jungle (1955), a low-budget drama filmed in just ten days. Mansfield's part was filmed in a few days and she received $150 for her performance ($1, 301 in 2012 dollars). Female Jungle was released in January 1955 by producer Burt Kaiser. That year Paul Wendkos offered her the dramatic role of Gladden in The Burglar (1957), his film adaptation of David Goodis' novel. The film was done in film noir style, and Mansfield appeared alongside Dan Duryea and Martha Vickers. The Burglar was released two years later, when Mansfield's fame was at its peak. She was successful in this straight dramatic role, though most of her subsequent film appearances would be either comedic in nature or capitalize on her sex appeal.On February 8, 1955, Mansfield was signed by Warner Bros. to a six month contract after one of its talent scouts discovered her in a production at the Pasadena Playhouse. She filed for divorce from her first husband, Paul Mansfield, the same day.[19] Warner wanted Mansfield as their version of the widely popular and lucrative Marilyn Monroe of 20th Century Fox. Mansfield was given a bit part in Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), which starred and was directed by Jack Webb. She made one more movie with Warner Bros., which gave her another small, but important role as Angel O'Hara, opposite Edward G. Robinson, in Illegal (1955). The film offered another rare serious performance by Mansfield. After leaving Warner Bros., Mansfield made an uncredited cameo appearance in Hell on Frisco Bay (1955), starring Alan Ladd.In 1955, she enjoyed a successful Broadway run acting in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?. This wild comedy starred Mansfield as Rita Marlowe, a wild blonde Hollywood actress. The play also starred Orson Bean and Walter Matthau. Returning to Hollywood on May 3, 1956, Mansfield signed a six-year contract with 20th Century Fox. Fox wanted Mansfield to replace Marilyn Monroe, their resident blonde sex symbol, and promoted her as "Marilyn Monroe King Sized". She was then given her first starring role as Jerri Jordan in the film production of Frank Tashlin's The Girl Can't Help It (1956). The film, originally titled Do-Re-Mi, featured a high-profile cast of contemporary Rock n Roll and R&B artists including Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Fats Domino, The Platters and Little Richard.Mansfield then played a dramatic role in The Wayward Bus in 1957. In this film, she attempted to move away from her "dumb blonde" image and establish herself as a serious actress. This film was adapted from John Steinbeck's novel, and the cast included Dan Dailey and Joan Collins. The film enjoyed reasonable success at the box office. She won a Golden Globe in 1957 for New Star Of The Year – Actress, beating Carroll Baker and Natalie Wood, for her performance as a "wistful derelict" in The Wayward Bus. It was "generally conceded to have been her best acting", according to The New York Times, in a fitful career hampered by her flamboyant image, distinctive voice ("a soft-voiced coo punctuated with squeals"), voluptuous figure, and limited acting range. Mansfield reprised her role of Rita Marlowe in the 1957 movie version of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, co-starring Tony Randall and Joan Blondell. The Girl Can't Help It and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? were popular successes in their day and are considered classics. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? is known as Mansfield's "signature film", because she starred in both the play and film version.Mansfield's fourth starring role in a Hollywood film was in Kiss Them for Me (1957) in which she received prominent billing alongside Cary Grant. However, in the film itself, she is little more than comedy relief while Grant's character shows a preference for a sleek, demure redhead portrayed by fashion model Suzy Parker. Kiss Them for Me, one of Mansfield's last starring roles, was a box office disappointment. The movie was described as "vapid" and "ill-advised". It also marked one of the last attempts by 20th Century Fox to publicize her. The continuing publicity around her physical presence failed to sustain her career. Mansfield was then offered a part opposite James Stewart and Jack Lemmon in Bell, Book and Candle (1958), but had to turn it down because of her pregnancy. Afterward, Mansfield got word that her rival Kim Novak would replace her in the film.In 1958, Fox gave Mansfield the lead role as Kate opposite Kenneth More in the western spoof The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. Despite being filmed in 1958, The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw was not released in the United States until 1959. The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw required Mansfield to sing three songs; she was not a trained singer, so the studio dubbed Mansfield's voice with singer/actress Connie Francis. When released in the United States, The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw became her last mainstream film success.Despite the publicity and her public popularity, good film roles dried up for Mansfield after 1959. She kept busy in a series of low-budget films, mostly made in Europe. Fox tried to cast Mansfield opposite Paul Newman in his ill-fated first attempt at comedy, Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958), but Mansfield's Wayward Bus co-star Joan Collins was selected instead.In 1959, Fox lent her to appear in two independent gangster thrillers in England: The Challenge, co-starring Anthony Quayle, and Too Hot to Handle, co-starring Christopher Lee. Both films were low-budgeted, and their American releases were delayed; Too Hot to Handle was released in the U.S. in 1961 as Playgirl After Dark, while The Challenge would not be seen by American audiences until 1963, under the title It Takes a Thief.When she returned to Hollywood in mid-1960, 20th Century-Fox cast her in It Happened in Athens (1962). She received first billing above the title, but only appears in a supporting role. It Happened in Athens starred a handsome newcomer, Trax Colton, a "unknown" whom Fox was trying to mold into a big star. This Olympic Games-based film was shot in Greece, in the fall of 1960, but was not released until June 1962. It was a box-office flop, and Mansfield's 20th Century-Fox contract was dropped.In 1961, Mansfield signed on to play Lisa Lang in The George Raft Story, starring Ray Danton as the actor. She accepted the part mainly for the money and because the film was going to be filmed in Hollywood, rather in Europe. Soon after the release of The George Raft Story, Mansfield returned to European films to find work. Over the next few years, Mansfield mainly appeared in low-budgeted foreign films, such as Panic Button, Heimweh nach St. Pauli, Einer Frisst den anderen, and, L'Amore Primitivo.In 1963, Tommy Noonan persuaded Mansfield to become the first mainstream American actress to appear nude with a starring role, in the film Promises! Promises!. Photographs of a naked Mansfield on the set were published in the June 1963 issue of Playboy, which resulted in obscenity charges being filed against Hugh Hefner in Chicago municipal court. Promises! Promises! was banned in Cleveland, but enjoyed box office success elsewhere. As a result of the film's success, Mansfield landed on the Top 10 list of Box Office Attractions for that year. The autobiographical book, Jayne Mansfield's Wild, Wild World, which she co-authored with her husband at the time, Mickey Hargitay, was published right after Promises! Promises!, containing 32 pages of black-and-white photographs from the film printed on glossy paper.In 1966, Mansfield was cast in Single Room Furnished, directed by her then husband Matt Cimber. The film required Mansfield to portray three different characters and was Mansfield's first starring dramatic role in several years. It was briefly released in 1966, but was not officially released until 1968, almost a year after her death.After the filming of Single Room Furnished was wrapped, Mansfield was cast opposite Mamie Van Doren and Ferlin Husky in The Las Vegas Hillbillys, a low-budget comedy released by Woolner Brothers. Despite her career setbacks, Mansfield remained a highly visible personality through the early 1960s through her publicity antics and stage performances. In early 1967, Mansfield filmed her last film role: playing a cameo role in A Guide for the Married Man, a comedy starring Walter Matthau, Robert Morse, and Inger Stevens. Mansfield received seventh billing as "Girl with Harold".Mansfield acted on stage as well as in film. In 1955, she went to New York and appeared in a prominent role in the Broadway production of George Axelrod's comedy Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times described the "commendable abandon" of her scantily clad rendition of Rita Marlowe in the play as "a platinum-pated movie siren with the wavy contours of Marilyn Monroe". In October 1957, Mansfield went on a 16-country tour of Europe for 20th Century Fox. She also appeared in stage productions of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Bus Stop, which were well reviewed and co-starred Hargitay.Dissatisfied with her film roles, Mansfield and Hargitay headlined at the Dunes in Las Vegas in an act called The House of Love, for which the actress earned $35, 000 a week ($303, 652 in 2012 dollars). It proved to be such a hit that she extended her stay, and 20th Century Fox Records subsequently recorded the show for an album called Jayne Mansfield Busts Up Las Vegas, in 1962. With her film career floundering, she still commanded a salary of $8, 000–25, 000 per week for her nightclub act ($61, 000–192, 000 in 2012 dollars). She traveled all over the world with it. In 1967, the year she died, Mansfield's time was split between nightclub performances and the production of her last film, A Guide for the Married Man, a high-budget production directed by Gene Kelly.Jayne Mansfield sang in English and German for a number of her films including The Las Vegas Hillbillys, Too Hot to Handle, Homesick for St. Pauli and Promises! Promises!, though in the film The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw her character lip synced to Connie Francis singing In The valley Of Love, Strolling Down The Lane With Billy, and If The San Francisco Hills Could Only Talk. She also had classical training in piano and violin. She played violin with a six person back-up at The Ed Sullivan Show.In 1964, Mansfield released a novelty album called Jayne Mansfield: Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me, in which she recited Shakespeare's sonnets and poems by Marlowe, Browning, Wordsworth, and others against a background of Tchaikovsky's music. The album cover depicted a bouffant-coiffed Mansfield with lips pursed and breasts barely covered by a fur stole, posing between busts of Tchaikovsky and Shakespeare. The New York Times described the album a reading of "30-odd poems in a husky, urban, baby voice". The paper's reviewer went on to remark that "Miss Mansfield is a lady with apparent charms, but reading poetry is not one of them." Jimi Hendrix played bass and lead guitar for Mansfield in 1965 in two songs, "As The Clouds Drift By" and "Suey", released together on two sides of the 45 rpm singles. According to Hendrix historian Steven Roby (Black Gold: The Lost Archives Of Jimi Hendrix, Billboard Books), this collaboration happened because they shared the same manager.Mansfield appeared in numerous television programs, including The Ed Sullivan Show and The Jack Benny Program (for which she played the violin), The Steve Allen Show, Down You Go, The Match Game (one rare episode exists with her as a team captain) and The Jackie Gleason Show (in the mid-1960s when the show was the second highest rated in the U.S.). Mansfield's television roles included those in Burke's Law and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. On returning from New York to Hollywood in 1957, she made several television appearances, including several spots as a featured guest star on game shows such as Down You Go, The Match Game, and What's My Line?.Though her acting roles were becoming marginalized, in 1964 Mansfield turned down the role of Ginger Grant on the up-and-coming television sitcom Gilligan's Island, claiming that the role, which eventually was given to Tina Louise, epitomized the stereotype of which she wished to rid herself. In 1962, Mansfield appeared with Brian Keith on ABC's Follow the Sun dramatic series in an acclaimed episode entitled "The Dumbest Blonde" in which her character "Scottie" is a beautiful blonde who feels insecure in the high society of her older boyfriend, played by Keith. The plot was based on the film of Born Yesterday. She also toured with Bob Hope for the USO in 1957. In February 1955, Mansfield was the Playmate of the Month in Playboy, in which she subsequently appeared over 30 times. Although Mansfield was reluctant to appear in the play, she received the Theatre World Award of 1956 for her performance in the Broadway production of George Axelrod's comedy Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?. Mansfield won a Golden Globe in 1957 for New Star Of The Year – Actress. Mansfield won a Golden Laurel in 1959 for Top Female Musical Performance for her role in The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, a western spoof directed by Raoul Walsh. although the songs were performed by Connie Francis. In 1963, Mansfield was voted one of the Top 10 Box Office Attractions by an organization of American theater owners for her performance in Promises! Promises!, a film banned in areas around the U.S. Mansfield has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6328 Hollywood Boulevard.Mansfield was married three times, divorced twice, and had five children. Reportedly she also had affairs and sexual encounters with numerous individuals, including Claude Terrail (the owner of the Paris restaurant La Tour d'Argent), Robert F. Kennedy, John F Kennedy, the Brazilian billionaire Jorge Guinle, and Anton LaVey. She had a brief affair with Jan Cremer, a young Dutch writer who dedicated his 1965 autobiographical novel, I, Jan Cremer, to her. She also had a well-publicized relationship in 1963 with the singer Nelson Sardelli, whom she said she planned to marry once her divorce from Hargitay was finalized. At the time of her death, Mansfield was accompanied by Sam Brody, her married divorce lawyer and lover at the time.On May 6, 1950, Vera Jayne Palmer married Paul Mansfield. At the time of marriage Jayne was 17 and Paul 21. The couple had a public wedding on May 10, 1950 when Jayne was three months pregnant. Her early acting aspirations were temporarily put on hold with the birth of her first child, Jayne Marie Mansfield, on November 8 that year. Her husband, Paul Mansfield, hoped the birth of their child would discourage her interest in acting. When it did not, he agreed to move to Los Angeles in late 1954 to help further her career. She juggled motherhood and classes at the University of Texas, then spent a year at Camp Gordon, Georgia, while Paul Mansfield served in the United States Armed Forces. They were divorced on January 8, 1958. Two weeks before her mother's death in 1967, Jayne Marie, then 16, accused her mother's boyfriend at that time, Sam Brody, of beating her. The girl's statement to officers of the Los Angeles Police Department the following morning implicated her mother in encouraging the abuse, and days later, a juvenile court judge awarded temporary custody of Jayne Marie to a great-uncle, W.W. Pigue.Mansfield met her second husband Mickey Hargitay, an actor and bodybuilder who had won the Mr. Universe competition in 1955, for the first time at The Mae West Show at New York City's Latin Quarter nightclub, telling the waiter asking for her order, "I'll have a steak and that tall man on the left." In November 1957, shortly before her marriage to Hargitay, Mansfield bought a 40-room Mediterranean-style mansion formerly owned by Rudy Vallee at 10100 Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills. Mansfield had the house painted pink, with cupids surrounded by pink fluorescent lights, pink furs in the bathrooms, a pink heart-shaped bathtub, and a fountain spurting pink champagne, and then dubbed it the Pink Palace. Hargitay, a plumber and carpenter before getting into bodybuilding, built a pink heart-shaped swimming pool. Mansfield decorated the Pink Palace by writing to furniture and building suppliers requesting free samples. She received over $150, 000 ($1, 241, 232 in 2012 dollars) worth of free merchandise while paying only $76, 000 ($628, 891 in 2012 dollars) for the mansion itself, a large sum nonetheless when the average house cost was under $7, 500 ($620, 616 in 2012 dollars) at the time.Mansfield and Hargitay married on January 13, 1958 at the Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. The unique glass chapel made public and press viewing of the wedding much easier. Mansfield wore a transparent wedding gown, adding to the occasion's publicity aspect. Mansfield and her husband toured widely for stage shows, where her leopard-spot bikini became a topic of discussion and newspaper coverage. During this marriage she had two children, Miklós Jeffrey Palmer Hargitay (born December 21, 1958) and Zoltán Anthony Hargitay (born August 1, 1960). The couple divorced in Juarez, Mexico in May 1963. After the divorce, Mansfield discovered she was pregnant. Since being an unwed mother would have killed her career, Mansfield and Hargitay announced they were still married. Mariska Magdolna Hargitay was born January 23, 1964, after the actual divorce but before California ruled it valid. Mansfield's third child also became an actress, best known for her role as Olivia Benson in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. After her birth, Mansfield sued for the Juarez divorce to be declared legal and won. The divorce was recognized in the United States on August 26, 1964. She had previously filed for divorce on May 4, 1962, but told reporters, "I'm sure we will make it up." Their acrimonious divorce had the actress accusing Hargitay of kidnapping one of her children to force a more favorable financial settlement.Mansfield married Matt Cimber (a.k.a. Matteo Ottaviano, né Thomas Vitale Ottaviano) an Italian-born film director on September 24, 1964. The couple separated on July 11, 1965, and filed for divorce on July 20, 1966. Cimber was a director with whom the actress had become involved when he directed her in a widely praised stage production of Bus Stop in Yonkers, New York, which costarred Hargitay. Cimber took over managing her career during their marriage. With him she had one son, Antonio Raphael Ottaviano (a.k.a. Tony Cimber, born October 18, 1965). Work on Mansfield's film, Single Room Furnished (in 1966), was suspended as her marriage to Cimber began to collapse in the wake of Mansfield's alcohol abuse, open infidelities, and her claim to Cimber that she had only ever been happy with her former lover, Nelson Sardelli.Mansfield appeared in about 2, 500 newspaper photographs between September 1956 and May 1957, and had about 122, 000 lines of newspaper copy written about her during this time. Because of the successful media blitz, Mansfield was a household name. Throughout her career, Mansfield was compared by the media to the reigning sex symbol of the period, Marilyn Monroe. Of this comparison, she said, "I don't know why you people [the press] like to compare me to Marilyn or that girl, what's her name, Kim Novak. Cleavage, of course, helped me a lot to get where I am. I don't know how they got there." Even with her film roles drying up she was widely considered to be Monroe's primary rival in a crowded field of contenders that included Mamie Van Doren (whom Mansfield considered her professional nemesis), Diana Dors, Cleo Moore, Barbara Nichols, Beverly Michaels, Greta Thyssen, Joi Lansing, and Sheree North.In April 1957, her bosom was the feature of a notorious publicity stunt intended to deflect attention from Sophia Loren during a dinner party in the Italian star's honor. Photographs of the encounter were published around the world. The most famous image showed Loren's gaze falling upon the cleavage of the American actress who, sitting between Loren and her dinner companion, Clifton Webb, had leaned over the table, allowing her breasts to spill over her low neckline and exposing one nipple. The image was one of several taken in the same minutes as the image visible right. A similar incident, resulting in the full exposure of both breasts, occurred during a film festival in West Berlin, when Mansfield was wearing a low-cut dress and her second husband, Mickey Hargitay, picked her up so she could bite a bunch of grapes hanging overhead at a party; the movement caused her breasts to erupt out of the dress. The photograph of that episode was a UPI sensation, appearing in newspapers and magazines with the word "censored" hiding the actress's exposed bosom.The world's media were quick to condemn Mansfield's stunts, and one editorial columnist wrote, "We are amused when Miss Mansfield strains to pull in her stomach to fill out her bikini better. But we get angry when career-seeking women, shady ladies, and certain starlets and actresses ... use every opportunity to display their anatomy unasked." By the late 1950s, Mansfield began to generate a great deal of negative publicity because of her repeated successful attempts to expose her breasts in carefully staged public "accidents".Mansfield's most celebrated physical attributes would fluctuate in size as a result of her pregnancies and breast feeding five children. Her smallest measurement was 40D (102 cm) (which she was throughout the 1950s), and largest at 46DD (117 cm), when measured by the press in 1967. According to Playboy, her measurement was 40D-21-36 (102-53-91 cm) and her height was 5'6" (1.68 m). According to her autopsy report, she was 5'8" (1.73 m). Her bosom was so much a part of her public persona that talk-show host Jack Paar once welcomed the actress to The Tonight Show by saying, "Here they are, Jayne Mansfield", a line that was written for Paar by Dick Cavett, later becoming the title of her biography by Raymond Strait. Almost half a century after her death, a biographer of Nikolaus Pevsner (a German-born writer on British architecture), noted the improbable coincidence that Pevsner and Mansfield had once stayed at the same hotel in Bolton, Lancashire. There, she had "electrified the dining room with her imposing bosom".While in Biloxi, Mississippi, for an engagement at the Gus Stevens Supper Club, Mansfield stayed at the Cabana Courtyard Apartments near the supper club. After an evening engagement on June 28, 1967, Mansfield, her lover Sam Brody, and their driver, Ronnie Harrison, along with the actress's children Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska, set out in Stevens' 1966 Buick Electra 225 for New Orleans, where Mansfield was to appear in an early morning television interview. Before leaving Biloxi, the party made a stop at the home of Rupert and Edna O'Neal, a family that lived nearby. After a late dinner with the O'Neals, during which the last photographs of Mansfield were taken, the party set out for New Orleans. On June 29, at approximately 2:25 a.m., on U.S. Highway 90 east of the Rigolets Bridge, the car crashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer that had slowed because of a truck spraying mosquito fogger. The automobile struck the rear of the trailer and went under it. Riding in the front seat, the three adults were killed instantly. The children in the rear survived with minor injuries.Rumors that Mansfield was decapitated are untrue, though she did suffer severe head trauma. This urban legend was spawned by the appearance in police photographs of a crashed automobile with its top virtually sheared off, and what resembles a blonde-haired head tangled in the car's smashed windshield. This was likely either a wig Mansfield was wearing or was her actual hair and scalp. The death certificate stated the immediate cause of Mansfield's death was a "crushed skull with avulsion of cranium and brain". Following her death, the NHTSA began requiring an underride guard, a strong bar made of steel tubing, to be installed on all tractor-trailers. This bar is also known as a Mansfield bar, and on occasions as a DOT bar.Mansfield's funeral was held on July 3, in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania. The ceremony was conducted by a Methodist minister, though Mansfield, who long tried to convert to Catholicism, had become interested in Judaism at the end of her life through her relationship with Sam Brody. She is interred in Fairview Cemetery, southeast of Pen Argyl. Her gravestone was shaped as a heart and reads "We Live to Love You More Each Day". A memorial cenotaph, showing an incorrect birth year, was erected in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, California. The cenotaph was placed by The Jayne Mansfield Fan Club and has the incorrect birth year because Mansfield herself tended to provide incorrect information about her age.Shortly after Mansfield's funeral, Mickey Hargitay sued his former wife's estate for more than $275, 000 ($1.92 million in 2012 dollars) to support the children, whom he and his third and last wife, Ellen Siano, would raise. Mansfield's youngest child, Tony, was raised by his father, Matt Cimber, whose divorce from the actress was pending when she was killed. In 1968, wrongful-death lawsuits were filed on behalf of Jayne Marie Mansfield and Matt Cimber, the former for $4.8 million ($39.7 million in 2012 dollars) and the latter for $2.7 million ($22.3 million in 2012 dollars). The Pink Palace was sold and its subsequent owners have included Ringo Starr, Cass Elliot, and Engelbert Humperdinck. In 2002, Humperdinck sold it to developers, and the house was demolished in November of that year. Much of her estate is managed by CMG Worldwide, an intellectual property management company.In 1980, The Jayne Mansfield Story aired on CBS starring Loni Anderson in the title role and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mickey Hargitay. It was nominated for three Emmy Awards. In 1991, British band Siouxsie and the Banshees scored a U.S. top 20 hit-single with "Kiss Them For Me", a song which is an ode to Mansfield. Lyrics include the actress' catchword "divoon", referring to her heart-shaped swimming pool and her love of champagne and parties, and to the grisly automobile accident.Film appearances Release year US Release year Movie Title Alternative title Production country Role Selected Co-actors Director Producer Notes 1955 1955 Female Jungle The Hangover United States Candy Price Burt Kaiser, Kathleen Crowley Bruno VeSota Burt Kaiser, Kathleen Crowley 1955 1955 Pete Kelly's Blues — United States Cigarette Girl Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien, Peggy Lee Jack Webb Warner Bros. Uncredited 1955 1955 Underwater! — United States Girl in Bikini by Pool Jane Russell, Richard Egan, Lori Nelson John Sturges RKO Radio Pictures Uncredited 1955 1955 Illegal — United States Angel O'Hara Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe Lewis Allen Warner Bros. 1955 1955 Hell on Frisco Bay — United States Mario's dance partner in nightclub Alan Ladd, Fay Wray Frank Tuttle Jaguar Productions Uncredited 1956 1956 The Girl Can't Help It — United States Jerri Jordan Tom Ewell, Edmond O'Brien, Julie London, Ray Anthony Frank Tashlin 20th Century Fox 1957 1957 The Burglar — United States Gladden Dan Duryea, Martha Vickers, Peter Capell, Mickey Shaughnessy Paul Wendkos Columbia Pictures Filmed in 1955 1957 1957 The Wayward Bus — United States Camille Oakes Joan Collins, Dan Dailey Victor Vicas 20th Century Fox 1957 1957 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Oh! For a Man! (UK) United States Rita Marlowe Tony Randall, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams, Henry Jones Frank Tashlin 20th Century Fox 1957 1957 Kiss Them for Me — United States Alice Kratzner Cary Grant, Leif Erickson, Suzy Parker Stanley Donen Sol C. Siegel 1958 1959 The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw — United States Kate Kenneth More, Henry Hull, Bruce Cabot Raoul Walsh 20th Century Fox 1960 1963 The Challenge It Takes a Thief (U.S.) United Kingdom Billy Anthony Quayle, Carl Möhner, Peter Reynolds John Gilling Alexandra 1960 1961 Too Hot to Handle Playgirl After Dark (U.S.) United Kingdom Midnight Franklin Leo Genn, Karlheinz Böhm, Christopher Lee Terence Young Wigmore Productions 1960 Never released The Loves of Hercules Gli Amori di Ercole (Italy),
Les Amours d'Hercule (France),
Hercules vs. the Hydra (TV title) Italy Queen Dianira/ Hippolyta Mickey Hargitay, Massimo Serato Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia Contact Organisation 1961 1961 The George Raft Story Spin of a Coin (UK) United States Lisa Lang Ray Danton, Julie London, Barrie Chase Joseph M. Newman Allied Artists Pictures 1962 1962 It Happened in Athens — United States (filmed in Greece) Eleni Costa Trax Colton, Nico Minardos, Bob Mathias Andrew Marton 20th Century Fox Filmed in the fall of 1960 1963 Never released Heimweh nach St. Pauli Homesick for St. Pauli (U.S.) Germany Evelyne Freddy Quinn, Josef Albrecht, Ullrich Haupt Werner Jacobs Rapid Film 1963 1963 Promises! Promises! Promise Her Anything (some releases) United States Sandy Brooks Marie McDonald, Tommy Noonan, Mickey Hargitay King Donovan Tommy Noonan-Donald F. Taylor 1964 1966 L'Amore Primitivo Primitive Love (U.S.) Italy Dr. Jane Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Mickey Hargitay Luigi Scattini G.L.M. 1964 1964 Panic Button Let's Go Bust (U.S.) United States (filmed in Italy) Angela Maurice Chevalier, Eleanor Parker, Mike Connors George Sherman, Giuliano Carnimeo Gordon Films Filmed in 1962 1964 1966 Einer Frisst den anderen Dog Eat Dog! (U.S.) Germany Darlene/ Mrs. Smithopolis Cameron Mitchell, Dodie Heath, Ivor Salter Richard E. Cunha, Gustav Gavrin Dubrava Film 1966 1966 The Fat Spy — United States Junior Wellington Phyllis Diller, Jack E. Leonard Joseph Cates Woolner Brothers 1966 1966 The Las Vegas Hillbillys Country Music United States Tawny Phyllis Diller, Jack E. Leonard, Brian Donlevy Arthur Pierson Woolner Brothers 1967 1967 A Guide for the Married Man — United States Technical Adviser (Girl with Harold) Walter Matthau, Inger Stevens Gene Kelly 20th Century Fox Cameo appearance. 1968 1968 Single Room Furnished — United States Johnnie/ Mae/ Eileen Dorothy Keller, Fabian Dean, Billy M. Greene Matt Cimber Empire Film Studios Posthumous release. Filmed in mid-1966. Documentary appearancesTV Reflets de Cannes (1956) Cinépanorama (1964)Cinema Lykke og krone (1962) Directors: Colbjörn Helander, Stein Sælen; Stars: François Chalais, Henri-Georges Clouzot and Eddie Constantine Spree (1967) Directors: Walon Green, Mitchell Leisen; Writer: Sydney Field; Stars: Constance Moore, Mickey Hargitay and Vic Damone Mondo Hollywood (1967) Director: Robert Carl Cohen; Writer: Robert Carl Cohen; Stars: Margaretta Ramsey, Dale Davisand Theodore Charach The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield (1968) Directors: Charles W. Broun Jr., Joel Holt, Arthur Knight; Writer: Charles Ross; Stars: Jayne Mansfield, Robert Jason and Fernand AubreyTelevision workAs an actress Sunday Spectacular: The Bachelor, NBC (July 1956) Shower of Stars, Desilu Productions, Season 3, Episode 4 ("Star Time", January 1957) Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium, Associated Television, Season 3, Episode 1 (September 1957) The Red Skelton Hour, CBS, Season 9, Episode 2 ("Clem's General Store", October 1959) After Hours, ABC Weekend Television, Season 2, Episode 13 (December 1959) Kraft Mystery Theater, Season 1, Episode 12 ("The House of Rue Riviera", August 1961) Follow the Sun, 20th Century Fox Television, Season 1, Episode 21 ("The Dumbest Blonde", February 1962) Monte Carlo, 20th Century Fox Television (August 1961) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Season 1, Episode 12 ("Hangover", December 1962) The Red Skelton Hour, CBS, Season 11, Episode 1 ("Will Success Spoil Clem Kadiddlehopper"?, September 1961) The Red Skelton Hour, CBS, Season 12, Episode 21 ("Advice to the Loveworn", February 1963) Amos Burke, Secret Agent, Four Star Television, Season 1, Episode 26 ("Who Killed Molly"?, March 1964)As herself The Bob Hope Show, Hope Enterprise, Season 17, Episode 4 (A Bob Hope Comedy Special, December 1966) What's My Line?, CBS, 4 Episodes; dated: 1956, 1957, 1964, 1966 The Ed Sullivan Show (also named Toast of the Town), CBS, Season 10, Episode 35 (May 1957) The Ed Sullivan Show, CBS, Season 10, Episode 46 (August 1957) The Jack Benny Program, J&M Productions, Season 7, Episode 8 ("Talent Show", December 1956) The Jack Benny Program, J&M Productions, Season 14, Episode 9 ("Jack Takes Boat to Hawaii", November 1963) The Tonight Show, NBC, ("The Jack Paar Tonight Show", January 1962) The Tonight Show, NBC, (April 1962)DiscographyAlbums Jayne Mansfield Busts up Las Vegas (20th Century Fox, 1962) Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me (MGM, 1964) I Wanna Be Loved By You (Golden Options, 2000) Dyed Blondes (Recall Records, 2002) Too Hot to Handle (Blue Moon, France, 2003)Singles That Makes It (The Las Vegas Hillbillys) Too Hot to Handle (Too Hot to Handle) Little Things Mean a Lot As The Clouds Drift By (with Jimi Hendrix, A-side) Suey (with Jimi Hendrix, B-side) You Were Made for Me Wo Ist Der Mann (Homesick for St. Pauli) Snicksnack-Snucklchen (Homesick for St. Pauli) I'm in love (also known as the Lullaby of Love; Promises! Promises!) Promise her anything (Promises! Promises!) It's a LivingTheater performances Death of a Salesman (1953) Bus Stop (1965) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1966) Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955–1956) Rabbit Habit (1965)(courtesy of wikipedia)
