Her first film was a bit role as a cigarette girl in Pete Kelly's Blues (1955).
The union ended in divorce but she kept the surname Mansfield as a good surname for an actress.Īfter some productions there and elsewhere, Jayne decided to go to Hollywood. In November 1950, when Jayne was seventeen, their daughter, Jayne Marie Mansfield was born. In 1949, at the age of 16, she married a man five years her senior named Paul Mansfield. Her IQ was reportedly 163, and she attended the University of Dallas and participated in little-theater productions. Three years later, her mother remarried and she and her mother moved to Dallas, Texas, buying a small home where she had violin concerts in the driveway of their home.
Tragedy struck when Jayne was three, when her father suddenly died of a heart attack. She was reportedly a talented pianist and played the violin when she was young. Her parents were both born with the same surname, and her ancestry was seven eighths English and Cornish and one eighth German. Her parents were well-to-do, with her father a successful attorney in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, where she spent a portion of her childhood. One of the leading sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, film actress Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer on Apin Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, the only child of Vera J.
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