The Jayne Mansfield Story
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Jayne Mansfield Story |
| Original title | The Jayne Mansfield Story |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dick Lowry |
| script |
Charles Dennis Nancy Gayle |
| production | Joan Barnett Alan Landsburg Linda Otto |
| music | Jimmie Haskell |
| camera | Paul Lohmann |
| cut | Corky Ehlers |
| occupation | |
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The Jayne Mansfield Story ( The Jayne Mansfield Story ) is an American biographical television - Drama by Dick Lowry from 1980. Based on the life of Jayne Mansfield is Loni Anderson , the actress is, Arnold Schwarzenegger its Bodybuilder husband . The working title was Jayne Mansfield: A Symbol of the '50s' . The script is based on the book Jayne Mansfield and the American Fifties by Martha Saxton.
It was first broadcast on October 29, 1980 on CBS . The film was first released on video in Germany in September 1987.
In the book The Official Razzie Movie Guide by John JB Wilson , founder of the Golden Raspberry , the film is ranked among the 100 Most Entertaining Bad Movies of All Time.
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The film tells the fictionalized rise and fall of Hollywood - bombshell and sex symbol Jayne Mansfield .
In 1967, Jayne Mansfield finished a show in Mississippi and the phone with a pay phone with Mickey Hargitay a joint tour. Mansfield gets into a car and is involved in an accident when the driver tries to overtake a car. A teleprinter read the news of Mansfield's death. An announcer reads this text, followed by the credits and pictures of Mansfield as a child and young woman.
In the next scene, Hargitay is interviewed about Mansfield (Hargitay's gray hair suggests this takes place some time after her death). Hargitay shows some photos of her, one of which shows dark-haired Mansfield with a chimpanzee advertising a film premiere in the cinema where Mansfield was selling popcorn. (Hargitay leads through the rest of the film.) Mansfield, a single parent who takes care of her daughter Jayne Marie after her father abandoned her for her acting ambitions, can be seen at the movies and at home, in films to play along.
In the next scene, Mansfield meets artist agent Bob Garrett on the street. She manages to convince Garrett to audition for a one-liner in a movie after pushing her chest out and showing that she has more than Marilyn Monroe . During the audition, Mansfield refuses to read the required line and instead reads a line from Kehr zurück, little Sheba . She doesn't get the role.
She later meets with Garrett, makes high notes, poses, and rhetorically asks him if that's expected of her. Garrett gives her hope in case she loses weight and changes her hair color. Mansfield says she will maintain a bimbo image until her career gets off the ground and she can move on to serious roles. A month later, Mansfield with blonde hair and a pink dress meets up with Garrett and receives a pink Cadillac for free. Next, Mansfield appears in a South American press club and distributes Christmas presents there, wearing only a bikini with white fur. During a photo shoot in Florida, Mansfield pretends to fall into the pool (losing her bikini top) and yells that she can't swim to get the photographers' attention.
Awards
Nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award:
- Costumes for a special - Warden Neil
- Makeup - Alan Friedman and Lona Jeffers
- Hairstyles - Silvia Abascal and Janis Clark
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Jayne Mansfield Story. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Tom Shales: Limp Cheesecake . In: The Washington Post , October 29, 1980, p. B2.
- ↑ John Wilson: The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywood's Worst . Grand Central Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0-446-69334-0 .