Trailer for a film bio of Jayne Mansfield that was released this year. Low budget doesn't begin to describe it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtE8J4LicFc
BTW: The narrator states that "Before Marilyn Monroe... there was another blonde sensation!" But Marilyn was already a bona fide movie star with her own production company by the time Jayne made her film debut in 1956.
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I've seen the movie and I was impressed with it. You can check out the review here.
Diamonds To Dust Shines!
Author: hilljayne from United States
9 September 2014
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
With all the negative hype surrounding this independent motion picture (mostly by fans who have learned the joys of Jayne through her daughter Mariska Hargitay)…one would expect a cheap, tawdry exploitive soft core piece of porn. This isn't that. This is a good movie that tells the tale of the 1950s and 1960s blonde bombshell through the eyes of super fan Frank Ferruccio (who wrote and produced the movie). The movie is told from the scene of her death and shows glimpses of Jayne Mansfield's dizzy rise to fame and gaudy fall from grace. It takes a brave person to tell the truth and the true story and it appears to have been done. The movie stars Hailey Heisick as the blonde goddess. Hailey is a virtual revelation as Jayne. What she lacks in facial similarities to Mansfield she more than makes up for with her body and her acting. Bodywise, Hailey is practically a dead ringer for La Mansfield. She also does a splendid job of capturing the voice of Jayne…and something Loni Anderson was not able to do in the 1980 TV movie—she captures the essence. There are moments when Hailey seems to have been possessed by the late Jayne Mansfield…particularly when capturing Jayne's party girl moments. Even when she's 'Bad Jayne' we feel for her…and identify with her. What a gifted actress! Rocco Palmieri shines as, a better looking, Sam Brody. He captures the nasty yet sexy charisma the real Sam Brody possessed and that the real Jayne Mansfield was attracted to. This reviewer can't think of anyone better to portray lover Nelson Sardelli than newcomer Anthony Cancellare. Sexy, charismatic, funny and charming…just like the real Sardelli, Mr. Cancellare lets us know why Mansfield strayed from Mickey Hargitay to the charms of Sardelli. Mr. Ferruccio cast an impressive lookalike as Mickey Hargitay in Ukrainian born actor/model Adrian Gorbaliuk. You can barely tell him apart from the real Hargitay. Mike Funk shines as Matt Cimber. Susan Capicotto, a successful stage actress, rounds out the cast as Mansfield's bff—reporter May Mann. She is a delight. Of course, it's not all glorious in this movie. Miscast as Jayne Mansfield's mother is Patti Ivy. Vera Jeffrey Peers had a certain je ne sais quoi that Patti Ivy does NOT possess. Overweight and looking exhausted with her bleach blonde fried to eternity hair, I never once believed that she was the well to do Vera Jeffrey. All in all I enjoyed the movie. It's good and entertaining with just enough of the camp element to keep us interested. I am proud of Mr. Ferruccio's movie and wish I had been a part of it.
As far as the Marilyn faux pas...well, it got you curious!
Dammit Carol Sue, where is the vodka?!
Isn't that peculiar? Similar to Diana Dors being called the precursor to MM, when in fact they started in film roughly at the same time, and even though Dors was later "Britain's answer to MM".
shareDors actually started a few years before MM.
Dammit Carol Sue, where is the vodka?!
Dors and Marilyn started their film careers in the same year (1947) albeit on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
However, Marilyn arrived at fame sooner. In 1950, she got noticeable supporting roles in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve, and her first leading role in Don't Bother to Knock (1952), and in 1953 she finally achieved superstardom with the releases of Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and How to Marry a Millionaire in quick succession.
As for Dors, she appeared in several British films in the late '40s and was obviously being groomed as a sex symbol, but she didn't have her breakthrough until 1952's The Last Page, in which she had a supporting role. She was made a couple offers for American films (one of them co-starring Burt Lancaster), but her deadbeat husband turned them down. Dors finally made it to Hollywood in 1956, coincidentally, around the same time that Marilyn was headed for England to film The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier. By then, Marilyn was the biggest female star and the undisputed sex symbol. Since Marilyn was the bigger star and better-known, naturally, Dors was referred to as "the British Marilyn Monroe." Unfortunately for Dors, her husband once again fvcked things up for her, and she returned to England a year later never to realize her full potential in Hollywood.
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This would be a great post...on the Diana Dors page.
Dammit Carol Sue, where is the vodka?!