#punk marilyn monroe
Jayne Mansfield, circa 1955 - Ph. Bruno (Bernard of Hollywood)
“I always liked (Jayne Mansfield) more than Marilyn – I still do! Jayne Mansfield is the ultimate movie star. Even with Divine. Divine was my Jayne Mansfield, only put together with Godzilla. I still marvel at how she looks. She must have done the roots of her hair every day. She never had a (dark) root, not for one second! I firmly believe she touched-up her roots every day!”
“She sums up the fifties. Nobody’s more extreme than Jayne Mansfield in representing a 1950s girl gone berserk. More than berserk – nuts! Acid!”
“She looked to me like she was really happy being completely out of her mind – like an extreme glamour person.”
“Jayne Mansfield is an animated character. She’s not a real person. She’s from outer space, basically! I mean, look at her! She is a piece of work.”
John Waters reminiscing about his all-time favourite movie star – Jayne Mansfield! (Quotes taken from his bonus interview on the DVD for The Girl Can’t Help It). Today is a holy day! Lobotomy Room’s Patron Saint, berserk glamour girl par excellence and the punk Marilyn Monroe (or the drag queen’s Marilyn Monroe), Jayne Mansfield (19 April 1933 - 29 June 1967) was born 89 years ago on this day. (To put it in perspective, Mansfield is the same age as Joan Collins, would be just a bit older than Brigitte Bardot or Sophia Loren - and two years younger than Mamie Van Doren - if she were still alive). Revered by the likes of John Waters and Divine, for me sex kitten Mansfield is virtually a sacred figure, the eternal publicity hungry starlet, Hollywood Babylon made flesh, the cooing and squealing hourglass-contoured personification of atomic-era kitsch. Do something divoon today in her honour!
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