The Jayne Mansfield Story
| The Jayne Mansfield Story | |
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| Genre | Biography Drama |
| Written by |
Charles Dennis Nancy Gayle |
| Directed by | Dick Lowry |
| Starring |
Loni Anderson Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| Theme music composer | Jimmie Haskell |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) |
Joan Barnett (producer) Gary Credle (associate producer) Tom Kuhn (executive producer) Alan Landsburg (producer) Linda Otto (producer) |
| Cinematography | Paul Lohmann |
| Editor(s) | Corky Ehlers |
| Running time | 100 Minutes |
| Production company(s) | Alan Landsburg Productions |
| Distributor | CBS |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | October 29, 1980 |
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 '50's. The script is based on the book Jayne Mansfield and the American Fifties by Martha Saxton.
It originally aired on CBS on October 29, 1980.
The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of the The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made.
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 Mansfield's 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.
The next scene is of an unnamed woman interviewing Hargitay about Mansfield (Hargitay's graying hair indicates that this is some time after her death). Hargitay shows her photos including one where a dark-haired Mansfield poses with a chimpanzee as a publicity stunt to promote a film premiere at the theater where she worked as a popcorn salesperson. (Hargitay narrates throughout the rest of the film). At a scene from the theater and at home Mansfield expresses her desire to act in films and she is shown as a single mother, taking care of her only daughter Jayne Marie after the father left because he disagreed with her acting ambition.
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