Showing posts with label Blonde Bombshell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blonde Bombshell. Show all posts

07 February, 2012

Fay Wray - How do we love thee let us count the ways.

Fay Wray


Canadian born Fay Wray was a star of both silent and talkie movies and one of the more successful stars to make that transition.

In a career spanning 57 years Wray starred mostly in horror movies earning her the status of Hollywood's first 'scream queen' setting the template for the type ever since.

25 January, 2012

Jayne Mansfield - how do we love thee let us count the ways.

Jayne Mansfield was a member of the 'Blonde Bombshell' posse of the 1950s and 1960s who, on her own admission, rose to fame on the captivating magnetism of her curvaceous figure and prodigious cleavage.

Like so many others of her generation of movie stars,sex symbols and 'beautiful people' her flame burned ever so brightly and ever so briefly only to be tragically snuffed out prematurely.  

A contemporary of Marilyn Monroe Jayne did not go by her own hand as Marilyn did but instead fell victim to a tragic motor vehicle accident leaving behind her young family.  She was 34 years old when she died.

Jayne Mansfield's legacy has, however, lived on.  Her daughter Mariska Hargitay, who was a passenger in the accident that claimed her mother's life, has gone on to make her own way in tinsel town and doing so on the strength of her father's name and not Mansfield.