Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer on April 19, 1933, in Pennsylvania. Jayne Mansfield was no dumb blonde. The Bryn Mawr-born actress did play the violin and frequent references are made to Mansfield's very high IQ, which she claimed was 163. She spoke 4 languages.

After signing with Warner Bros. in 1955, Mansfield’s career caught fire with a hit Broadway show, and such films as Kiss Them For Me (1957), The Wayward Bus (1957), The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958) and It Takes a Thief (1960). But it was her talent for self-promotion that made her one of the hottest sex symbols on the silver screen during the 1950s and early 1960s. Star of film and theater, she was also a singer, playmate and entertainer.

At age of 34, Jayne Mansfield died in a car accident while on her way to a TV interview. Mansfield was sitting beside her driver and Sam Brodey, a divorce attorney, with whom she had developed a romance. In the back seat were her three children. The children survived.

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