- Even though she divorced her first husband, Paul Mansfield, she kept the last name Mansfield because it sounded "Hollywood" to her. She felt that it would help gain her stardom.
- She was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in March 2008 in Austin, Texas. Her daughter Mariska Hargitay accepted the award.
- Her daughter Mariska Hargitay has a zig zag scar on the side of her head from the car accident that killed her mother. Mariska has no memory of the accident since she was only three years old at the time.
- After her death an extension was added to the rear bumper of semi trailers to keep autos from driving under the truck. The were colloquially called Mansfield bars.
- Her daughter Mariska Hargitay received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame right next to hers.
- Initally divorced Mickey Hargitay on May 1, 1963; she divorced him again in Juarez, Mexico. On August 26, 1964, the California Superior Court recognized the Mexican divorce pronouncement.
- Her death is the subject of the Siouxsie and the Banshees song "Kiss Them for Me", the title of which is taken from her 1957 film.
- Had five children: Jayne Marie Mansfield (born November 8, 1950), Mickey Hargitay Jr. (born December 21, 1958), Zoltan Hargitay (born August 1, 1960), Mariska Hargitay (born January 24, 1964) and Tony Cimber (born October 18, 1965).
- Was the first American actress to appear nude in a mainstream American film (Promises..... Promises! (1963)).
- Was arrested for indecent exposure during her nightclub act in Burlington, Vermont in 1963.
- Contrary to popular belief, she was not decapitated in the car crash that killed her. Her death certificate, issued in New Orleans, Louisiana, lists "crushed skull with avulsion of cranium and brain" as the immediate cause of death; her other injuries included "closed fracture of right humerus" and "multiple lacerations of hands and lower extremities". Following her untimely death, she was interred at Fairview Cemetery in Plainfield (Outside of Pen Argyl), Pennsylvania.
- Gave birth to her fourth child at age 30, a daughter, Mariska Hargitay, on January 23rd, 1964. Child's father is her 2nd ex husband, Mickey Hargitay.
- Gave birth to her first child at age 17, a daughter, Jayne Marie Mansfield, on November 8th, 1950. Child's father is her 1st ex-husband, Paul Mansfield.
- The Playboy Playmate of the Month for February 1955, Mansfield's daughter, Jayne Marie Mansfield, followed in her mother's footsteps by appearing in Playboy in 1976.
- Mansfield's nightclub act was enormously successful, reportedly earning her $8,000-$17,000 weekly.
- Her estate was valued at approximately $2,000,000 at the time of her death, a significant sum by 1967 standards.
- She was named the second (out of 100) top Playboy Playmates of all time according to Playboy magazine.
- At the zenith of her popularity, a peculiar promotional merchandising venture was launched...The Jayne Mansfield Hot Water Bottle. This was a 22" plastic novelty item molded in a modestly risqué likeness of the actress. Many thousands were sold, and today they are something of an oddball collector's item commanding as much as $300 in the original box.
- Her goal, as quoted in the book, "Jayne Mansfield and the American Fifties": "To feel satisfied with myself; to know that I have arrived. To be liked. To be a big personality. The real stars are not actors or actresses. They're personalities. The quality of making everyone stop in their tracks is what I work at.".
- Turned down the role of Ginger Grant on Gilligan's Island (1964), which went to Tina Louise.
- She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6328 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
- The late model Buick that Jayne was killed in was locked in a garage for decades, in the same shape it was in after the crash. The owner, who was a huge fan, displayed it at various shows over the years, and it was sometimes billed as Jayne Mansfield's death car. The car was sold at auction in 1999 for $8000. Reportedly, the car still has the blood stains on the seats.
- She appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957).
- Son Zoltan Hargitay was critically injured by a supposedly tame lion while visiting the Jungleland Zoo in Thousand Oaks, California, but made a full recovery. (December 1966)
- Producer Louis W. Kellman always said that he "discovered" Jayne Mansfield. He gave the then little known actress her first starring role (Gladden, Dan Duryea's sexy-but-shy gun moll kid sister) in The Burglar (1957) after seeing the normally jaded and unflappable film crew's "overheated" reaction to her on the set of Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) in which she had a small role.
- Gave birth to her fifth child at age 32, a son, Tony Cimber, on October 18th, 1965. Child's father is her 3rd husband Matt Cimber.
- Made Mr. Blackwell's Worst-Dressed List in 1961 with Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren and Shirley MacLaine. She also made the List in 1964.
- Los Angeles heavy metal band L.A. Guns had a top-40 hit in the early 1990s with a song called "The Ballad of Jayne", which was based on her.
- The Japanese garage rock band The 5.6.7.8's play a song called "I Walk Like Jayne Mansfield".
- She was Miss Photoflash 1952, the first in a series of beauty awards she would win.
- Was with 20th Century-Fox from 1956-1962.
- Gave birth to her third child at age 27, a son, Zoltan Hargitay, on August 1st, 1960. Child's father is her 2nd ex-husband, Mickey Hargitay.
- Biographer Martha Saxton about Mansfield and sex: "If Jayne was a product of the fifties, then she was a casualty of the sixties. In the fifties, Jayne and American men had conspired to keep it a secret. By the sixties the secret was out.".
- The only child of Vera (nee Palmer) and Herbert Palmer, Mansfield's ancestry was English and Cornish, and one-eighth German.
- Gave birth to her second child at age 25, a son, Mickey Hargitay Jr. on December 21st, 1958. Child's father is her 2nd ex-husband, Mickey Hargitay.
- Signed by 20th Century-Fox in 1954, Mansfield was meant to be a rival (or, in the vernacular of gossip magazines of the time, a "threat") to up-and-coming Fox starlet Marilyn Monroe, but Mansfield never achieved the same level of popularity or success as Marilyn, and was widely regarded as a pale imitation of blonde bombshell Monroe.
- The German punk-rock-band The Bates dedicated the song "The Lips of Jayne Mansfield" (from the album "Shake!") to her.
- At one point marketed Jane Mansfield hot water bottle,.
- She cut the ribbon to open the Chiswick flyover in London,.
- Mentioned in the film Murder She Said (1961) by Alexander in the hopes of having a maid with the figure of Jayne Mansfield.
- Mother-in-law of Peter Hermann and former mother-in-law of Dana Hargitay. Grandmother of August Miklos Friedrich Hermann, Andrew Nicolas Hargitay Hermann and Amaya Josephine Hermann (Mariska's children).
- Grandmother of Jianni Cimber (Tony's daughter), Brandon and Zoltan Jr. Hargitay.
- California license plate on her 1957 Lincoln Premiere convertible: NBB 851. This Lincoln was nearly identical to the one from The Girl Can't Help It (1956); the movie car did not have a Continental kit and hers did.
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