Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-12
jim BISHOP:
REPORTER

The press agents tell us
that there Is a new Jayne
Mansfield. Count me as one
who does not believe 1t. The
new one is conservative"
wears high necklines, and
still forgets to exhale. She
Shudders at the thought that
some people think of her as
a sex symbol"
Br-r-r-other. Or rather,
siss-s-s-ter. -.
The business Of keeping
Jayne Mansfield on the front
pages has never been diff
cult. All she had to do, in
the years I've known her, Is
to show up. This young lady
Is the most obliging. She will
pose in almost any posture
and she will submit to al
most any kind Of question:
ing.
IF WE MUST have q
Jayne Mansfield, what's the
matter with the old one2 She
was, fundamentally. q prod
uct of Harry Brandt Of
Twentieth Century Fox. Mr..
Brandt took her, q sex kit
ten out Of Texas, and made
her into q caricature of the
Petty Girl. She was never
beautiful. Jayne was out
rageous.
There was another Mans
field underneath the one
Harry created. But she was
never seen in public. One day
about five years ago I went
to her little house in Beverly
Hills, and I saw this Mans
field. She was in the kitch-
en-, chopping onions. Mickey
Hargitay, a mass Of muscle
in a Hungarian accent, was
in the garden mulching the
earth around some plants.
This Mansfield is good with
children. She knows how to
get quarreling little girls to
play games, and she was also
diligent at bringing children
to church on Sunday and to
Sunday school, too. She did
not merely go through the
motions, as some stars do.
She worked at it.
when my career begins to
interfere with the care Of the
children" she said, I'm 60
ing to give up the career"
This, I think, is one Of the
rare times when Jayne lied
to herself. She resolved, years
ago when she was teaching
school, that she was going
to be a movie star and that
some day she would live like
the stars of the old silent
pictures.
I was on the Fox lot when
Mansfield attained star stat
us, got a star on her dressing
room door next to Gary
Grants, and had q makeup
room and a sitting room with
a small upright piano and
some chairs and a couch. An
orphan girl with q talking
doll on Christmas morning
could not have been happier.
Jayne was ecstatic.
Know what? I'm going to
work even harder. I'm going
to have a big house on Sun
set boulevard with servants
quarters. I'm going to have
a heart shaped swimming
pool and a pink bedroom and
I'm going to have champagne
buckets beside the swimming
pool and tiger cubs on leash
eS."
Know what she has today?
A beautiful home on Sunset
boulevard with servants
quarters, a pink bedroom. q
heart-shaped swimming pool
and two wild ocelots-one in
a cage on the kitchen drain
board.
Mickey adored Jayne. and
he was a good father to
their babies. He and Jayne
made a couple Of trips to
Rome for motion pictures,
and he lost her. How, or to
whom, I do not know.
Last March I made color
movies at their home, and
they seemed happy. Mickey
had built a replica Of the
ancient Roman viaduct on
the front lawn because Jayne
wanted one. Their home was
beautiful, If you like to live
on the main set Of King
of Kings"
JAYNE MANSFIELD
achieved stardom. Unfortu-
nately, it happened at a time
when all the great sirens
were stepping offstage. The
big Fox lot is getting smaller.
Hollywood makes fewer pic
lures, and more expensive
ones.
Now a new Jayne Mans
field is announced. A con-
sentative woman with a high
neckline and a demure smile.
Oh no, fellas. Not that!
We're still trying to get &C
customed to the old one.
King Features Syndicate, Ino.