Jayne Mansfield: podcast appearances and interviews

Jayne Mansfield was an American actress, Playboy Playmate, and singer born on April 19, 1933. She was a prominent sex symbol during the 1950s and early 1960s and was known for her publicity stunts, buxom figure, and significant personal life. Mansfield played the fictional actress Rita Marlowe in the Broadway production of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? during 1955 and 1956, a role for which she received the Theatre World Award. She reprised this role in the 1957 film adaptation. Her filmography includes roles in the musical comedy The Girl Can't Help It (1956), the drama The Wayward Bus (1957), the neo-noir Too Hot to Handle (1960), and the sex comedy Promises! Promises! (1963). Notably, in Promises! Promises! she became the first American actress to perform a nude scene in a starring film role. Her performance in The Girl Can't Help It earned her the Golden Globe Award for New Star. Mansfield's professional name was derived from her first husband, public relations professional Paul Mansfield. She was married three times and had five children. Jayne Mansfield died in a traffic collision on June 29, 1967, at the age of 34.