The Jayne Mansfield Story

The Jayne Mansfield Story
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Directed by	Dick Lowry
Written by	Charles Dennis Nancy Gayle
Starring	Loni Anderson Arnold Schwarzenegger
Release date(s)	October 29, 1980 (1980-10-29)
Running time	100 Minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Jayne Mansfield Story is 1980 television film directed by Dick Lowry and starring Loni Anderson, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, based on the life of Jayne Mansfield.

The film was originally titled Jayne Mansfield: A Symbol of the '50s.

It was originally aired on CBS on October 29, 1980.

Reception

In 1981, the film was nominated for three Emmy Awards for hairstyling, makeup, and costume design.

Inaccuracies

• The radio announcer says at the end of the film following Jayne Mansfield's death that she was 36. She was actually 34 when she died, NOT 36 as depicted in the film.

• In a scene towards the end of the film, Jayne Mansfield is seen filming a movie called The Las Vegas Hillbillys with Mickey Hargitay on the set. Jayne had been divorced from Mickey for almost two years when the movie was made. It also shows Las Vegas Hillbillys being filmed as a western, but it was really a comedy and a musical, not a western.

• In a narration by Mickey Hargitay at the end of the movie, he says Jayne made 12 movies, but really she made more than that.

• Jayne did not have the Pink Cadillac until after her son Miklos Hargitay was born.

External links

• The Jayne Mansfield Story at the Internet Movie Database