How accurate a portrayal of Jayne's life would you say this movie is? Was she really that driven for publicity? I've heard accounts that she was very innovative in coming up with ways to publicize herself, but was she really as desperate for it as they make her appear in this film?
Also, was any of this movie filmed at the real pink mansion? That heart shaped pool looked a lot like the real one! <3
The outside parts in the backyard were filmed at the real Pink Palace. The interior parts and the front parts were not at the Pink Palace. At the time this movie was filmed, the house had been painted beige so they had to use another pink mansion.
The movie is not very accurate. Jayne did love publicity, that's true. It's the way she was taught when she was a starlet and it just always stayed with her. However, the film is totally inaccurate in dates, names, facts...it is loosely based on Martha Saxton's biography on Jayne. Still, it's not bad for a 1980 Made For TV movie.
Some of the errors:
Gus Stevens Supper Club was not a rinky dink dive as portrayed in the movie. It was a big nightclub, a big attraction in that area.
The movie leads you to believe Jayne's only hit film was The Girl Can't Help It and that it was her first movie. It was not her first movie and she did have other hits.
The announcer at the end says Jayne was 36 when she died, she was 34.
Las Vegas Hillbillys is not a western as depicted in the movie and Jayne wasn't still with Mickey when she filmed it.
Jayne did not immediately buy and move into the Pink Palace when she moved to Hollywood from NYC.
Jayne wasn't wearing a coat when she died.
The pictures at the beginning of Jayne as a child are not of Jayne, they are of Loni Anderson.
Arnold as Mickey at the end says Jayne starred in 12 movies...she was in 27.
Lots of others too...
Professional Jayne Mansfield fanatic/lover™ since 1980.
You know your stuff!!!
Huge props! I'm impressed!
Films like this should be watched as historical fiction. They're not intending to be documentaries or non-fiction academic research projects about their subjects.
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I've always wondered if Jayne Mansfield really told the head of twentieth century fox (skouras? Zanuck?) that she "didn't care about the studio." I've always thought that was funny, in a very dark way. telling your boss that you don't care about the company. if Mansfield really didn't care about fox, it's understandable that fox ended up not caring about her.
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