"Some of the best known lurid 'facts' about Jayne Mansfield, the American film star of the '50s and '60s, are based on rumour. So the directors of a new documentary about her short and scandalous life faced a difficult task. Was Mansfield, one of the first actresses to be marketed as a 'blonde bombshell', also a violin-playing intellectual with superb comic timing who spoke five languages? Or was the star who came to be known as the 'working man's Marilyn Monroe' actually a devil worshipper who was decapitated in a car crash as the result of a curse?"
Article source here:Arts Journal
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