Jayne mansfield biography

American actress who was one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols during the late 1950s and early 1960s . Born Vera Jayne Palmer in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, on April 19, 1933; died near New Orleans, Louisiana, on June 29, 1967; daughter of Herbert Palmer (an attorney) and Vera Palmer; attended Parkland High School in Dallas, Texas, the University of Texas, the University of California at Los Angeles, and Southern Methodist University in Dallas; married Paul Mansfield, on May 6, 1950 (divorced 1956); married Mickey Hargitay (a bodybuilder), on January 13, 1958 (divorced 1964); married Matt Cimber (a film producer and director), in 1964 (separated 1966); children: (first marriage) Jayne Marie Mansfield (b.

1960), and Mariska Hargitay (b. 1964); (third marriage): Anthony Richard Cimber (b. 1965).

Selected films:

The Female Jungle (1954); Pete Kelly's Blues (1955); Illegal (