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.
