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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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Jayne Mansfield in California. 1959.
“By 1959 Jayne probably meant it when she said there was an overemphasis on sex. This overemphasis, which she had made a bargain with, had left her surrounded by people who didn’t know her, people who wanted her without knowing who she was. Jayne was sitting by the pool one day with her mother. She was hugging and kissing a Chihuahua with great ardour. “I just love him, Mama,” she said. “He’s the only one who doesn’t want anything from me.”
From:Jayne Mansfield and The American Fifties by Martha Saxton. 1975. Pictured: Mansfield sunbathing in 1959.
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Evelyn Nesbit
black and white recolored by @the-modern-edwardian
(I loved the torn look of this so I only restored in minimally~)
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