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  • Director: Dick Lowry
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Drama
  • Movie Type: Biopic, Melodrama
  • Themes: Rise and Fall Stories, Actor's Life
  • Main Cast: Loni Anderson, Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Release Year: 1980
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 97 minutes

Plot

Loni Anderson plays the 1950s sexpot Jayne Mansfield, who starred in films like The Girl Can't Help It and who married bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay (Arnold Schwarzenegger) before a car accident ended her life. A.K.A. Jayne Mansfield: A Symbol of the '50s. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

Cast

Loni Anderson - Jayne Mansfield; Lewis Arquette - Publicity Man; Nora Boland - Fan; Ray Buktenica - Bob Garrett; J.P. Bumstead - Reporter #2 (Hospital); James Jeter - Middle-Aged Man; Janice Kent - Young Woman Writer; Len Lawson - Reporter #1 (Hospital); Kathleen Lloyd - Carol Sue Peters; John Medici - Bud Leland; Charles Parks - Reporter #2; Whitney Rydbeck - Photographer; Cynthia Szigeti - Girl at Movie Popcorn Stand; Gwen van Dam - Vivian; Buck Young - City Editor; Arnold Schwarzenegger - Mickey Hargitay; David Shelley - Barry Charles; G.D. Spradlin - Gerald Conway; Laura Jacoby - Jayne Marie (at 6); Robb Madrid - Gate Guard

Credit

Warden Neil - Costume Designer, Dick Lowry - Director, Corky Ehlers - Editor, Jimmie Haskell - Composer (Music Score), Elayne Barbara Ceder - Production Designer, Edmond Koons - Cinematographer, Paul Lohmann - Cinematographer, Alan Landsburg - Producer, Linda Otto - Producer, Joan Barnett - Producer

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The Jayne Mansfield Story
Directed by Dick Lowry
Written by Charles Dennis
Nancy Gayle
Starring Loni Anderson
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Release date(s) October 29, 1980 (1980-10-29)
Running time 100 Minutes
Country United States
Language English

The Jayne Mansfield Story is 1980 television film directed by Dick Lowry and starring Loni Anderson, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, based on the life of Jayne Mansfield.

The film was originally titled Jayne Mansfield: A Symbol of the '50s.

It was originally aired on CBS on October 29, 1980.[1]

Reception

Reviews for the film were In 1981, the film was nominated for three Emmy Awards for hairstyling, makeup, and costume design.[2]

In order for Anderson to be considered for the role, she had to bleach her hair. She liked how it turned out so much, that she kept it that way, and is now recognized as being a blonde.

References

  1. ^ Tom Shales (October 29, 1980). "Limp Cheesecake". The Washington Post: pp. B2. 
  2. ^ "Awards for The Jayne Mansfield Story". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080947/awards. Retrieved 2008-09-15. 

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