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101: Jayne Mansfield (Dead Blondes Part 9)
101: Jayne Mansfield (Dead Blondes Part 9)
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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
Mar 28, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
More famous today for her gruesome car crash death than for any of the movies she made while alive, Jayne Mansfield was in some sense the most successful busty blonde hired by a studio as a Marilyn Monroe copy-cat. Mansfield’s satirical copy of Monroe’s act was so spot-on that it helped to hasten the end of the blonde bombshell, paradoxically endangering both actress’ careers. But she did manage to star in Hollywood’s first rock n’ roll movie, Hollywood’s first postmodern comedy, meet The Beatles, experiment with LSD, cheerfully align herself with Satanism for the photo op, and much more.
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Released:
Mar 28, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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