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Jayne Mansfield
The Girl Couldn't Help It
In this joyful biography, the first definitive one of Mansfield, Eve Golden reveals the star that Andy Warhol called "the poet of publicity" as a smart, determined woman. While she always had her sights set on the silver screen, Mansfield got her start as Rita Marlowe in the Broadway show Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?. She made her film debut in the low-budget drama Female Jungle (1955) before landing the starring role in The Girl Can't Help It (1956). Mansfield followed this success with a dramatic role in The Wayward Bus (1957), winning a Golden Globe for New Star of the Year, and starred alongside Cary Grant in Kiss Them for Me (1957). Despite her popularity, her appearance as the first celebrity in Playboy and her nude scene in Promises! Promises! (1963) cemented her reputation as an outsider.
Golden looks beyond Mansfield's flashy public image and tragic death to fully explore her life and legacy. This funny, engaging biography offers a nuanced portrait of a fascinating woman who loved every minute of life and lived every minute to the utmost.
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Reviews
"There have been other Jayne Mansfield books—but none like this one. Eve Golden's even-handed, clear-eyed approach to Jayne's often convoluted life pegs Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It as one of the best star bios ever."—Laura Wagner, book reviewer for Classic Images and author of Hollywood's Hard-Luck Ladies
"Eve Golden has given us an impeccably researched, fast-paced, unvarnished but loving tribute to Hollywood's other great 1950s blond bombshell."—Robert Dance, author of Glamour of the Gods and Hollywood Icons
"Pop the pink champagne for Eve Golden's breezily written tribute to the phenomenon known as Jayne Mansfield, which quite notably includes an appreciation of her undervalued talent and sadly unfulfilled potential. Immersed in the giddy pleasures of mid-century pop culture, this book is consistently entertaining while always respectful. Even when it's funny, it never treats Mansfield as a joke."—John DiLeo, author of Ten Movies at a Time: A 350-Film Journey Through Hollywood and America 1930-1970
"Eve Golden brings impeccable research and stylish writing to this mid-century American icon. Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It dispels the myths about Jayne Mansfield and examines her continuing popularity."—Larry Harnisch, retired L.A. Times editor, writer, columnist and blogger
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Other Titles by Eve Golden
Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld's Broadway, updated edition
The Brief, Madcap Life of Kay Kendall, updated edition
John Gilbert
Other Titles from Screen Classics
Olivia de Havilland
Otto Preminger, updated edition
Hitchcock and the Censors
Other Titles in BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts
The Merchant Prince of Poverty Row
Robert Riskin
Patricia Neal, updated and expanded edition