The Jayne Mansfield Story

The story of the 1950s platinum-blonde sex symbol whose search for stardom and meteoric (if brief) career ended in an automobile accident when she was 36.

Cast

Loni Anderson

as Jayne Mansfield

Arnold Schwarzenegger

as Mickey Hargitay

Ray Buktenica

as Bob Garrett

Kathleen Lloyd

as Carol Sue Peters

G. D. Spradlin

as Gerald Conway

Dave Shelley

as Barry Charles

Laura Jacoby

as Jayne Marie (at 6)

Whitney Rydbeck

as Photographer

John Medici

as Bud Leland

Lewis Arquette

as Publicity Man

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