Jayne Mansfield: Difference between revisions

* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Just on-screen.

** Her IQ was reportedly at or close to genius-level.

* [[Fur Bikini]]: More like an angora one, but still counts.

* [[Going Fur a Swim]] (a scene in ''Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter'')

* [[Hello Nurse]]

* [[Off With His Head|Off With Her Head]]: How she died, at least according to [[Urban Legends|urban legend]]. Not that the way she actually died -- getting the top of her head ''[[Your Head Asplode|crushed]]'' -- was any better. It might be more accurate to say that she was scalped, but even that severely understates just how horrific her death was.

* [[Pink Means Feminine]]: She loved the color pink and was often seen wearing outfits of that color; in fact, she famously had her best-known residence done up in pink, right down to the bathtub.

* [[The Poor Mans Substitute]]: In the mid-50s, Fox and Marilyn Monroe had a contract dispute. To put pressure on Marilyn, the studio decided to find a substitute. Enter aspiring actress Mansfield who thought becoming a real life Marilyn [[Expy]] would jump start her career. She was partially right -- she got starring roles a lot sooner than if she'd worked her way up the ladder, but it led to her being labeled as "The Poor Man's [[Marilyn Monroe]]" (in that the movies Mansfield starred in were fewer and not as popular as Marilyn's). Unfortunately this led to type-casting as a blonde bimbo, and when the '60s arrived and styles changed, demand for her dropped.

* [[Sexy Walk]]

* [[Slippery Swimsuit]]: Jayne carefully orchestrated losing her bikini top in front of reporters during the launch of the Jane Russell film ''Underwater!''; upstaging the star and landing herself a major studio contract.

* [[Sweater Girl]]

* [[Trope Namer]]: [[Playing With a Trope|Sort of]]. The underride guard of modern tractor trailers is known as a "[[Gallows Humor|Mansfield Bar]]", a reference to her rather unsexy demise.

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