Yes, and because of her death, all trucks have that square bar at the back of their trucks to prevent a car from sliding under. It's called a Mansfield bar
Look up Hedy Lamar... Beautiful and she invented signal skipping which was used in guided missiles and such for the military and is used today in cell phone technology...she was an absolute genius.
Jayne Mansfield showed her more intelligent side in the early part of her career, when not performing. Much better to see/hear her speak as who she really was.
Anderson C I see your point....all pale in significance compared to people like Kirk Douglas, Hepburn, Davis, Tracy, Cagney, Astaire, Brando who lived a long time though. And that's just the US. We have a fair share of aged legends in the UK too!
@@SR-iy4gg Yes, I met Mariska her sister, their father and Mr. Universe at an intimate meeting where Jane Mansfields dad used to live. I was very young at the time.
I really admire how intelligent they both were (and I hate thinking of this in the past tense...); and I especially loved Arlene Francis' wonderful sense of humor, her amazing quick wit. In that area of her life she was really gifted. But do you know what is sad, however, is knowing how wonderful and loving and appreciated these two women were, but that they each died in very lonely circumstances, out of the public eye, especially Ms. Francis, in San Francisco. It's just another example how fame is such a fleeting thing, isn't it?
I was thinking that I would go back to a more peaceful 50's. I know because I was 16 in 1957 so I know how it was back then. Sunday night I'd make sure to watch this pleasant show at 10:30 pm every week. I always looked forward to this quiz show. I have about 40 of these programs and watch them when I want to relive the past, which I find enjoyable. It's a great high for me.
Also back in the time when nuclear proliferation was getting ramped up and the cold war as well. I'm glad I didn't live then, it seems like a scary time in some ways.
Jayne Mansfield was the most marvelous and astonishing comedy actresses in the history. Beautiful, voluptuous, witty- IQ162, five foreign languages, loving gentlemen, and having five gorgeous kids, playing violin and the piano, burlesque creature well ahead of Ms. Ditta von Tise. Sadly enough she got a bad luck to have an inexpierienced driver at one foggy night while travelling in the front seat of her Buick 1966 without seat belts fastened. The rest is history. Ain't she sweet ? Isn't she lovely, folks ?! Rest in Peace Jayne.
+Witold Banasik dita von tise dosnt copy jane mansfeild in any way....she is a sally bowles clone but looking like the real burlesqe of berlin in the 20's....and acting more like the blue angel marlena deitrich.
Miss Mansfield was so much better when being herself like here, there are only very few appearances and interviews of Miss Mansfield as the intelligent woman she was but I guess that's what she thought the public wanted at the time. Jayne Mansfield was the best.
Mike Hudson, well the problem was that 20th Century Fox hired her to be a sexpot threat to MM who had walked out on her contract. They never wanted to let her grow just like they didn't want MM to. Ultimately Jayne doomed her own career by playing along and hyping up the false image . Here she has a natural charm that would have been nice to see in her film roles instead of the over the top sexy persona.
@@ccgrey8731 …and the shame too, was that the Marilyn schtick was getting dated, even for Marilyn. By the late 50’s and early 60’s a whole batch of beautiful blonde starlets came along, but presenting more complexity and naturalism - Tuesday Weld, Eva Marie Saint, Lee Remick, Kim Novak, etc….
the "everybody knows that" conformity coaching in the '50s & early '60s was still women shouldn't let too much intelligence becuz it would scare off male "prospects" not only marriage prospects (the presumed desire of all sane females) but also employment prospects. Which is why what Christopher just described was a topic of the times -- all those examples he lists were collectively flooding that particular "everybody knows" out of existence. Personally, I think Arlene + Dorothy performing, on this very popular show.once a week thru all those years played a bigger part in kicking that particular "everybody knows" out the window in most folks' minds. I'd add Betty White's in her very wide range of TV roles, to the list.
If there is a heaven I want to live forever with my family, GOD and Jayne Mansfield! Jayne was born April 19th, which is my birthday! In my opinion the MOST BEAUTIFUL woman who ever lived!!!
as soon as I heard Arlene say it I paused the show and looked for someone that commented on how awesome that line was :) I have never really been a game show person (even when I only had 3 channels to "surf" through), but I can't stop watching what has to be the BEST game show of all time!
And we all love her talented and good-looking daughter Mariska Hargitay, who plays tough detective on I can’t believe I forgot the name, Something SVU!
It turns out that legendary beauty queens and sex symbols who are remembered half a century after their deaths for their appearance are quite striking.
She died on my birthday although I wasn't alive yet on the actual day she passed. I've read about her, saw her in movies, watched her bio and they all say she loved having her children with her. She could've had a nanny. One of the things I love about her.
Batman, you're so lucky to have found "What's My Line?" And. As a boy and teen, I truly enjoyed it. I am glad that BATMAN has found this witty gift from History! Gregg Oreo long Beach Ca
Surprising how little make-up Jayne Mansfield used in comparison to other stars of the period, ...she was beautiful of face, but the body got all the attention ... she was terrific in The Girl Can't Help It.
Holy Wow She was a knockout. Her facial expressions are just top level charming. I still feel She should have been far more popular than mosr others of Her time, seems to me Hollywood politics played a huge role in Her diminished fame compared to the far less talented that were flaunted around. She had the Looks and the Talent.
I always loved Jayne. She not only had beauty, but a sweetness about her. She died on 6/29/67, after performing at Gus Steven's Supper Club in Biloxi, MS. They were on their way to New Orleans late that night on Hwy. 90. My husband and I were returning from our honeymoon in Pensacola, FL. on 7/21/67, and stopped at the same restaurant/motel. That night at dinner, the waitress told us that Jayne had performed there about 3 weeks before and was killed. We were in total shock. If the dates had been a little different, we might have gotten to see her performance. It was a great shock.
Marilyn was the first blonde sex symbol(hate to use that term because she wouldn't have liked it). The rest were mostly copies. There was an aura around Marilyn. It's difficult to explain the overall attraction that she was.
The oddity is now, most people know Jayne Mansfield as the mother of Mariska Hargitay, whom since 1999 has played the much-beloved Det. Olivia Benson on "Special Victims Unit."
You mean to tell me you did not know that Mariska Hargity is the daughter of Jayne Mansfield? Mariska (her daughter) has only been on "SVU" for 15 years in what is now one of the longest-running series on television and could very well be challenging "Gunsmoke" and the original "Law & Order" (that "SVU" was a spinoff from) in a few years for longest running non-animated prime-time non-news show of all time?
I do add back in the original commercials when I have a complete copy of a show to grab them from, but I don't usually have an unedited copy available. There are more than a couple of dozen episodes with original commercials in this playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLqsaqh5sqUxrRmk0siGIBwIcrTJQPnyqp
That’s what you get when you join the Church of Satan and ask the founder to curse the very man end up dying with. Once she requested the curse on the man, LaVey warned her to stay far away from him, but she got in the car with him instead, and she got what she asked for. It’s only sad that she went with Satan’s offer of temporary material gains, and not God’s offer of a long-term relationship that starts the day you ask for it. You can ignore broadcast waves, radiation, God and the angelic realm, and Satan and the entire demonic realm if you really insist on it, but it won’t make any of them go away or fail to impact you just because you can’t physcially see them and choose to ignore them. They’ll carry on doing their thing, whether you like it or not. Satan, like a thief, won’t wait for an invitation. He will kick and trick and sometimes barge his way into your life (but he’d rather work quietly and be ignored, like all thieves and killers do). God, to a degree, does hold back a measure of evil in general, or we’d all be dead, because that’s what Satan comes to do, kill, steal, and destroy. But if you want Him in your life, complete with guidance, better protection, joy, and all the benefits he offers in a relationship with Him, you have to ask for it. He is a gentleman, honors your free will, and awaits for your response to His invitation. The very generous invite is open to everyone, but they do need to RSVP, He won’t force Himself on you. The only thing you really give up is what doesn’t work for your own happiness, including any grudges against anyone, because they’re too heavy to take where you’ll be going, and it helps to give up thinking you’re the smartest thing that ever walked on land, and let Him steer your life instead, since what He wants for your life is one of health, prosperity, happiness, peace, comfort, and service to help others have the same. And He wants you back home when all is said and done. But He can’t force you to come home to Him when you’re time is done here. You have to decide to. Refusing to read the owner’s manual and guide won’t be an excuse for not finding your way home. The lost will stay lost to Him, and there aren’t a load of choices of where else to be, just one. And He does want you to notice where it’s all coming from, and show some thanks and appreciation. He will steer you around what isn’t in your best interest, and towards what is. You just have to trust Him when the ride looks off the beaten path. Even when he takes you into unfamiliar territory, it’s because He knows a better destination, and sometimes it’s the only way to get there. And never worry when He slams a door shut. It’s just to help you dodge a bullet, and not waste your time. LaVey and Crowley, both Satanists, both got to experience regret before they drew their last breath. You’re either working with God, or you’re not. There is no neutral ground. One or the other. Jayne chose poorly.
Dearest Lance...The phrases “”Conspiracy Theory!”, “Tin Foil Hat”, “Satanic Panic”, “False Memory Syndrome”, “You Must Live In Your Mother’s Basement”, “Don’t Breed”, “Seek Help”, “Take Your Meds”, “Put Down The Crack Pipe”, “Nutter”, blah, blah, blah are just very childish attempts at damage control by using tired, old, worn out Cointelpro and Tavistock phrases and tactics that are so last-century, (seriously, they’ve been around since Kennedy, and the tactics are as old as the hills), and no one is falling for it anymore. Anyone still using those phrases or childish mockery tactics either didn’t get the memo, or is one of them...same goes for all derogatory words. It shows either a lack of intellect, a lack of any real argument, or collusion and conspiracy with the perpetrators. You’ll note that your pre-pubescent attempt is listed above…
That happened when I was eleven years old. I always remembered to not drive in the fog at night. After the crash into the back of the semi trailer, they began to install the "Mansfield bar" across the back of the trailers to keep vehicles from sliding underneath on impact.
@@Dan4CW I think I had one of those for a science project when I was a kid,,,jeez, I came home one day and discovered all the ants had escaped and were infesting the home,,,oh boy,,,was I in trouble...
I guess I need to go try to find some Jayne Mansfield movies to watch. I knew of her and was well aware of Marilyn Monroe, but Raquel Welch was the rage when I was a kid. But after seeing Jayne here, even in old black & white TV, I concur that she was stunning. Wow! It's nice hear others commenting that she had a lot more going for her than just her good looks, but man did she have that going for her. Also, having binge watched a lot of these What's My Line episodes, I had never known who Bennet Cert was, but have now really grown to like him. The whole lot of them seemed like really good people.
I agree she was very intelligent, look up Hedy Lamar... she was also beautiful and invented signal skipping, which was used by the military in things like guided missiles and such and today is used wifi. Our ability to use cell phones and wireless signals was invented by a woman who was labeled the most beautiful woman on the planet at one point... Talk about brains and looks combined !! And although Dorothy Kilgallen wasn't necessarily a beauty per se, she had one of the greatest deductive minds ever next to the fictional Sherlock Holmes... Too bad it got her killed.
She was very intelligent lady who unfortunately mostly played dumb blonde bombshell in distress roles. So most of her roles wouldn't do any justice to her high IQ level. So I think you will be disappointed with her movies.
Don Ameche -- 1:15 va va va voom John Daly was the master of interpretive semantics. No one could touch him. Some of his observations about the first contestant are classics. I used to show this sequence in my college English classes to illustrate some points about language and word usage. And it was always a hit.
The ant house seller's card reads "ants included". But when Arlene asks "does it come with stuff already in it", John answers "No"... Why "no" if ants are included?
Jayne Mansfield did a topnotch job of playing it dumb. I remember when she was a team captain (with two contestant teammates) on "The Match Game" (original version out of New York) with Gene Rayburn as host. The things to be matched with answers written on cards was "Name a famous Gene" which, since it was read allowed, could also have been "Name a famous Jean". On Jayne's team, the contestants came up with Gene Rayburn and Jean Harlow, and Jayne came up with "hygiene". It was hilarious, but didn't serve her teammates well since they won money if they matched each other. I have to say that coming up with "hygiene" as a humorous response wasn't the work of someone who was actually dumb.
She did get precisely what she asked for. Bad idea to choose Satan, bad to curse anyone. Downright stupid to climb into a car with someone you’ve chosen to have cursed by your Satanic leader, especially when he warned you not to do that. Guess she erroneously figured Satan wouldn’t let her get hurt, too, but that’s not how he operates. He comes to steal, kill, and destroy. Don’t expect a different outcome when you dance with the devil. And if you aren’t dancing with God, you’re dancing with the devil, there are no other dance partners and there is no dancing alone. You’re in the presence and service of one or the other. Ignoring it won’t change that fact, anymore than ignoring radiation will make it cease to exist, or reduce its impact on you.
Lance, you’re only digging a bigger hole for yourself. It’s best that you don’t speak on topics when you are well out of your depth and you clearly have not done your homework. And now, I’m shaking that dust off my feet. No more troll food for you.
@@misskim2058 projecting much? Jayne was raised a Methodist and died a Roman Catholic. You are a lousy troll and very boring. Don't lose your day job. God bless you dear! 😀
I used to see Don Ameche all the time on "To Tell the Truth" where he was a regular panelist. They frequently introduced him on TTTT as "The inventor of the telephone, Don Ameche". My mother had to explain that one to me and, eventually, I saw the biopic "Alexander Graham Bell" in which Don Ameche played the title role. It was his most famous movie role, hence the introduction. His last name, I note, was original "Amici" -- and "Ameche" was spelled as it was to help Americans pronounce it properly. ("Amici", fairly obviously, is an Italian surname -- and it's also the Italian plural of the singular noun "amico", which means "friend". A nice name to have, I think.)
Rachel Moore -- That's true -- there was a period where some people jokingly referred to the telephone as "the Ameche". It's one of those popular slang terms that faded over time.
It's amazing to think.. that not one of the people on the panel could probably have conceived of us today.. in 2022.. sitting around, cheering them on while watching on our smart phones.
To some of us in the UK, Jayne Mansfield was also memorable for having been the subject of an improvised Derek And Clive 'sketch' where she had a certain 50/50 arrangement with lobsters.
Don Ameche was born as Dominic Felix Amici on May 31, 1908, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. His father, Felice Amici, was a bartender from Montemonaco, Ascoli Piceno, Marche, Italy. His mother, Barbara Etta Hertel, was of Scottish, Irish, and German ancestry.[4][5][6] I always wondered about his ethnicity. He once played a Hungarian named Tibor in a movie with Claudette Colbert.
Thing I had never gotten around to looking up: Bennett mentions the Mexican Jumping Bean at around 9:43. It jumps when warmed, Wikipedia tells me, because it has been inhabited by the larva of a small moth, and the larva is attempting to avoid immolation and/or dehydration.
Jayne Mansfield didn't live long, but she packed a lot of living into those years. That year she appeared in my favorite of her movies, "The Wayward Bus". I noticed how the first contestant forgot to complete the "t" in his surname. Professional clock watcher John Daly must have had clocks all over his house.
Yup. Jayne Mansfield was married to bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay at one point (the second of her three marriages) and three of her four children were Hargitays, including Mariska. Her oldest child was born during her first marriage to Paul Mansfield. I remember when her shocking death in June 1967 was reported on the TV news -- just a couple of weeks before my 15th birthday, so I knew who she was and it's one of those things I wont forget. While riding in the front seat of a convertible with the top down, her car, which was traveling at high speed, rear-ended a large truck and the car slid underneath the truck, killing the three adults (Mansfield, her boyfriend and her driver) in the front seat. Three of her children, including the 3-1/2-year-old Mariska, were asleep in the back seat. The children all survived with only minor injuries. A rumor ensued that Jayne Mansfield was decapitated in the accident. That rumor is untrue, though she did suffer extreme head injuries which were listed as the cause of death on her death certificate. Jayne Mansfield was 34 years old when she died.
hugh jadonga -- Seriously? Jayne Mansfield's career was cut short by her untimely death in a horrendous automobile accident. She was riding in a convertible in the front seat (she was not the driver) with her small children in the back seat. They rear-ended a large truck on the highway in front of them, striking it with high speed. The front of the car slid under the back of the truck causing traumatic injury and instant death to all three adults in the front seat. The head injuries were severe, giving rise to the falsehood that Jayne Mansfield was decapitated in the accident. That took place in 1967. Mariska Hargitay was three years old and one of Jayne Mansfield's three small children who were sleeping in the back seat. All three children survived with minor injuries. Mansfield had been performing in a night club in Biloxi at that point and was driving to New Orleans when the accident happened -- she was 34 years old when she died. Nothing as silly to assert as "devil worship" was required to destroy her career since a fatal accident did it in one fell swoop.
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