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Jayne's Asphalt Jungle?


Many people have compared Jayne's role in this to that of Marilyn Monroe's role in THE ASPHALT JUNGLE. Similar type of roles and both were new and fresh faced starlets at the time. It is interesting to note that when Jayne became very popular on Broadway, despite having already been dropped by Warner's, her name starting appearing on the marquee and in movie posters for the movie.

Professional Jayne Mansfield fanatic/loverâ„¢ since 1980.

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typical move business cashing-in there hill...in fact, to take the MM comparison a little further, i believe the same thing happened with subsequent re-releases of asphalt jungle after MM hit it big...her name and picture started appearing on posters to cash-in on her superstardom at the time, despite her role in that move being very small indeed.

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I disagree. It's not "very small indeed." She has a fair amount of lines and while her role is a minor one it's important and she does it quite well. The biggest difference between her role and that of Mansfield is that Asphalt Jungle is by far the superior movie.

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Jayne was hardly in this, despite getting second billing!

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Amazing how much Mariska Hargitay looks like her mother.

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good point

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