101: Jayne Mansfield (Dead Blondes Part 9)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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More famous today for her gruesome car crash death than for any of the movies she made while alive, Jayne Mansfield was in some sense the most successful busty blonde hired by a studio as a Marilyn Monroe copy-cat. Mansfield’s satirical copy of Monroe’s act was so spot-on that it helped to hasten the end of the blonde bombshell, paradoxically endangering both actress’ careers. But she did manage to star in Hollywood’s first rock n’ roll movie, Hollywood’s first postmodern comedy, meet The Beatles, experiment with LSD, cheerfully align herself with Satanism for the photo op, and much more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.4	Welcome.
0:29.4	To another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring the
0:37.5	secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century, part of the
0:45.1	Panoply Network. I'm your host, Karina Longworth, and this is another installment in our
0:53.6	ongoing series, Dead Blonds.
1:23.6	Last week we concluded a series of episodes on Marilyn Monroe, the female star who more than
1:45.3	any other defined the decade of the 1950s. Jane Mansfield was one of a series of
1:52.2	stars signed by various studios in an effort to compete with the money minting and
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