She then performed the piano scene for Warner Brothers, but, again, failed to impress. Five years after Monroes death, Jayne Mansfield died in a car accident. Best Known For: Jayne Mansfield was an American actress best known for her bombshell curves and film roles during the 1950s and '60s. Amira Abase Death: What Happened To Shamima Begum Friends Kadiza Sultana. We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. In early 1967, Mansfield filmed her last role, a cameo in A Guide for the Married Man, a comedy starring Walter Matthau, Robert Morse and Inger Stevens. [117][118][119] The opening night raised $20,000 for March of Dimes ($188,000 in 2021 dollars). Playboy published nude photographs of Mansfield on the set in its June 1963 issue, resulting in obscenity charges against Hugh Hefner in a Chicago court. According to her agent William Shiffrin, "She became a freak. Now, more than 50 years after the accident, she opened up about losing her mother in an interview with People. Another view of Mansfields mangled car after the accident. shock to cope with before the impact. In the early hours of the morning, the 34-year-old starlet took a drive in a 1966 Buick Electra down a narrow country lane close to a swamp in Louisiana as she made her way to a TV appearance in New Orleans. [74][80][131] In 1967, an independent documentary Spree (alternative title Las Vegas by Night) on the antics of Las Vegas entertainers was released. According to the coroner's report, Mansfield's official cause of death was a "crushedskullwithavulsionofcraniumand brain"not decapitation. Hull, Anne. [236][163][237] By July 1966, she started living with her attorney, Sam Brody, who had frequent drunken brawls with her and mistreated her eldest daughter, Jayne Marie. [29] 20th Century Fox groomed her, as well as Sheree North, to substitute for Monroe, their resident "blonde bombshell", while Universal Pictures launched Van Doren as their substitute. Police declared the actress dead on the scene. With a decreased demand for big-breasted, blonde bombshells and an increasing negative backlash against her excessive publicity, Mansfield became a box-office has-been by the early 1960s,[40] yet she remained a celebrity, still able to attract large crowds outside the United States by way of lucrative and successful nightclub acts. "Her head was attached as much as mine is," he added. However, rumours about the actress being beheaded were dismissed as untrue in the police report which stated Jane died as a result of severe head trauma. [260] Instead of the asexualized and virginal "nice girls" of earlier films, the pneumatic blonde bombshells took over the screen in the 1950s to become a cult that has been consistently emulated from that era on. [63][64][65], Mansfield's fourth starring role in a Hollywood film was in Kiss Them for Me (also 1957), for which she received prominent billing alongside Cary Grant. On June 29th 1967 Jayne Mansfield was killed in a car accident on her way to New Orleans. As a result of the film's success, Mansfield landed on the Top 10 list of box-office attractions for that year.