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Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It
By Golden, Eve
- ISBN
- 9780813180953
- Publisher
- Univ. Pr. of Kentucky
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Starred Review on April 1, 2021 | Arts & Humanities
Noted entertainment biographer Golden's second entry in the "Screen Classics" series (after John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars), on actress and sex symbol Jayne Mansfield (1933–67), is an archetypal Hollywood cautionary tale—you can get what you want, but do you want what you get? Mansfield devoted her life to becoming, and remaining, a movie star in the classic 1940s Hollywood sense—the look, the endless quest for...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
