Jayne Mansfield
Bought this postcard recently, I think it's very funny.
You certainly can't accuse Jayne of not knowing what to do with what she had! That may be the most daring dress I've seen. And anything which can make Sophia Loren cast jealous glances askance is something else.
Mmm, I actually recall very little I've seen with either of the ladies. Any recommendations?
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One of my (very) few claims to fame is that I once had a chocolate malt with Jayne Mansfield.
Of course, I was five years old at the time and I was a lot more interested in the malt than I was in yet another grownup.
Right. A while ago someone here said he had photographed Kate Bush nude. And now we have Jayne Mansfield's date. What's next? Cleopatra's secret lover?
Dunno, but I once slept in a bunk bed with Marilyn Monroe. But of course I was very young.
OK, I made that up, but I believe the others.
Great photo. The look on Sophia's face is priceless. I would love to know exactly what she was thinking, although I'm sure I could guess pretty close.
One things for sure, she wasn't thinking "are those real"?
I should have said "another crazy grownup." She was wearing a mink coat. In Dallas. Outdoors. In July.
I don't remember who it was that said this. Marilyn Monroe was "romance". Jayne Mansfield was "sex".
Seeing that picture really makes the points.
I do remember what Johnny Carson said about her. (Reportedly it was the highest-paid one-liner at the time.)
"And here they are - Jayne Mansfield."
You doods are a hoot a minute! Went lookin' for that Carson clip. Nowhere to be found, darn it! Found <a href="http://thethoughtexperiment.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/valentine-vixen-miss-february-1955-jayne-mansfield/>this</a>, instead. Hope you don't mind that I share! lol! ;-)
@ Ross: "One things for sure, she wasn't thinking "are those real"?"
GOOD one! That instance is actually, um, uncovered in the above link!
Thanks for the link, seems interesting.
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Indeed, the funny thing is that we all immediately think we know what somebody, like Sophia here, is thinking in a picture we're looking at. But the question is if most of that is not what we ourselves think?
Her boobs seem larger in the present pic than in the nudes in the article TCG linked to. But I guess they can change with age and so on, and probably lifting and padded bras can add a lot.
OK, I made that up, but I believe the others.
Really?
Eolake said...
Thanks for the link, seems interesting.
You're welcome; and, yes, it seemed to be. :-)
Her boobs seem larger in the present pic than in the nudes in the article TCG linked to. But I guess they can change with age and so on, and probably lifting and padded bras can add a lot.
Exactly; all that...and those! ;-)
I don't believe any of those. It was probably just some drag queen. The kid was 5.
I think scepticism is all well and good, but maybe it can be taken too far. Jayne must have met thousands of people in her life. It's not all that far-fetched that a kid would remember, and years later one of the blogs he's reading happens to post a picture of her.
There's no shortness of famous people, many people have met some. I've met an actress who's famous in Denmark, and I've met writers Ray Bradbury and Frederik Pohl.
I doubt you were five years old when you met them. When you were five, would you have known or cared who Fred Pohl was? Or who Inga Rasmussen was?
I was 5 years old at the time. But my Aunt, who recognized her, was 23 and was a movie buff. She talked movies with her for 15-20 minutes and also talked to the photographer. She told the story for several years after that. It took me a while to connect her story with my malt. I probably only remembered it because my aunt had told me just a few minutes before that I couldn't have one and this was the only time I had one with someone who wasn't family. So, Tommy, be as skeptical, but I really don't think it was a drag queen, not in 1955.
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