Jayne Mansfield. Actress: The Girl Can't Help It. One of the leading sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, film actress Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer on April 19, 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, the only child of Vera J. (nee Palmer; later Pe
My cousin and I were discussing the Jayne Mansfield accident, which resulted in the Hollywood Screen Actors Guild and the Louisiana State Police ( a strange political affiliation) successfully lobbying Congress for the “Block Bar” which was legislated in 1967 to be installed on all semi trailers...
While traveling from a nightclub in Biloxi, Mississippi and 30 miles from New Orleans to where she was to be on television the following day, she was killed instantly on Highway 90 in Slidell, Louisiana in a car crash in the early hours of June 29, 1967, when the car in which she ...
While traveling from a nightclub in Biloxi, Mississippi and 30 miles from New Orleans to where she was to be on television the following day, she was killed instantly on Highway 90 in Slidell, Louisiana in a car crash in the early hours of June 29, 1967, when the car in which she ...