The Jayne Mansfield Story


The Jayne Mansfield Story is a 1980 television film directed by Dick Lowry, starring Loni Anderson as the sex goddess, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as her body builder husband based on the life of Jayne Mansfield. The film was originally titled Jayne Mansfield A Symbol of the 50s. The script is based on the book Jayne Mansfield and the American Fifties by Martha Saxton.

The film tells the fictionalized rise and fall of Hollywood bombshell and sex symbol, Jayne Mansfield.The Jayne Mansfield Story opens in 1967 in Mississippi with Jayne Mansfield closing a show and then talking on a payphone with Mickey Hargitay about going on a new tour together. Intercut with scenes of Mansfield getting into a car and then crashing when the driver tries to overtake a spray truck is film of a teleprinter typing out the news of Mansfields death. An announcer reads the text over both scenes. The film then goes to credits, intercut with still images of Mansfield as a child and young woman. ........

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