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One of the leading sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, film actress Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer on April 19, 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, the only child of Vera J. (nee Palmer; later Peers) and Herbert W. Palmer. Her parents were well-to-do, with her father a successful attorney in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, where she spent a portion of her childhood. Her parents were both born with the same surname, and her ancestry was seven eighths English and Cornish and one eighth German. She was reportedly a talented pianist and played the violin when she was young.
Tragedy struck when Jayne was three, when her father suddenly died of a heart attack. 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. Her IQ was reportedly 163, and she attended the University of Dallas and participated in little-theater productions. In 1949, at the age of 16, she married a man five years her senior named Paul Mansfield. In November 1950, when Jayne was seventeen, their daughter, Jayne Marie Mansfield was born. The union ended in divorce but she kept the surname Mansfield as a good surname for an actress.
After some productions there and elsewhere, Jayne decided to go to Hollywood. Her first film was a bit role as a cigarette girl in Pete Kelly's Blues (1955). Although the roles in the beginning were not much, she was successful in gaining those roles because of her ample physical attributes which placed her in two other films that year, Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) and Illegal (1955). Her breakout role came the next year with a featured part in The Burglar (1957). By the time she portrayed Rita Marlowe in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) and Playgirl After Dark (1960), Jayne was now known as the poor man's Marilyn Monroe. She did not get the plum roles that Marilyn got in her productions. Instead, her films were more of a showcase for her body more than anything else. She did have a real talent for acting, but the movie executives insisted she stay in her dumb blonde stereotype roles. By the 1960s, her career had options that grew lower. She made somewhat embarrassing guest appearances like on the popular game show What's My Line? (1950), she appeared on the show four times in 1956, 1957, 1964, and 1966 and many other 1950s and 1960s game shows. By 1962, she was dropped from 20th Century Fox and the rest of her career had smaller options like being in B movies and low budget movies or performing at food stores or small nightclubs.
While traveling from a nightclub in Biloxi, Mississippi and 30 miles from New Orleans to where she was to be on television the following day, she was killed instantly on Highway 90 in Slidell, Louisiana in a car crash in the early hours of June 29, 1967, when the car in which she was riding slammed into the back of a semi-tractor trailer truck that had stopped due to a truck in front of the tractor trailer that was spraying for bugs. Her car went under the truck at nearly 80 miles per hour. Her boyfriend Samuel Brody and their driver Ronnie Harrison, were also killed. The damage to the car was so bad that the engine was twisted sideways. She was not, however, decapitated, as had long been misreported. She was 34 years old.
Mansfield's funeral was on July 3, 1967 and hundreds of people lined the main street of Pen Argyl for Mansfield's funeral, a small private ceremony at Fairview Cemetery in Plainfield (outside Pen Argyl), Pennsylvania (where her father was also buried), attended by her family. The only ex-husband to attend was Mickey Hargitay. Her final film, Single Room Furnished (1966), was released the following year. In 2000, Mansfield's 97 year old mother, Mrs. Vera Peers, was interred alongside Mansfield.
After Mansfield's death, Mansfield's mother, as well as her ex-husband Mickey Hargitay, William Pigue (legal guardian for her daughter, Jayne Marie), Charles Goldring (Mansfield's business manager), and Bernard B. Cohen and Jerome Webber (both administrators of the estate) all filed unsuccessful suits to gain control of her estate, which was initially estimated at $600,000 ($3,712,000 in 2018 dollars), including the Pink Palace (estimated at $100,000 ($619,000 in 2018 dollars)), a sports car sold for $7,000 ($43,000 in 2018 dollars), her jewelry, and Sam Brody's $185,000 estate left to her in his last will ($1,145,000 in 2018 dollars).
In 1971, Beverly Brody sued the Mansfield estate for $325,000 ($2,011,000 in 2018 dollars) worth of presents and jewelry given to Mansfield by Sam Brody; the suit was settled out of court.
In 1977, Mansfield's four eldest children (Jayne Marie, Mickey, Zoltan, and Mariska) went to court to discover that some $500,000 in debt which Mansfield had incurred ($3,093,000 in 2018 dollars) and litigation had left the estate insolvent.- Ronne Troup was born on 10 June 1945 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress, known for My Three Sons (1960), Strong Medicine (2000) and The Man from Independence (1974). She has been married to Robert Vernon Bayles Jr. since 1996. She was previously married to James Coleman and James A Campbell.
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Markus Flanagan was born on 20 August 1964 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The Morning Show (2019), Better Things (2016) and The Rookie (2018).- Tobias Segal was born on 16 June 1981 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor, known for John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), Sneaky Pete (2015) and Mindhunter (2017).
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Christopher Fitzgerald was born on 26 November 1972 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor, known for Revolutionary Road (2008), Boiler Room (2000) and Girl Most Likely (2012). He has been married to Jessica Stone since 23 August 2003. They have one child.- Handsome William Joyce was born on October 21, 1930, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and raised in New Rochelle, New York. His childhood dream was to become a major-league baseball pitcher (he even worked out with the New York Yankees in 1947). However, Joyce was introduced to acting after he entered the army and became the star, writer and producer of "Camp Pickett Reveille Roundup." He made his film debut in 1954 with an uncredited bit part as a dancer in the comedy musical Top Banana (1954) (he had previously appeared in an early 1950s Broadway stage production of this particular musical).
William had his only lead role as hunky pulp adventure novelist Tom Harris in the low-budget zombie horror picture I Eat Your Skin (1971). He had secondary parts in Lifeguard (1976), The Parallax View (1974) (in one of his customary politician roles) and The Young Nurses (1973). He was a regular recurring cast member on the daytime soap operas Somerset (1970) and Days of Our Lives (1965). Among the many TV shows William did guest spots on are Hunter (1984), Knots Landing (1979), Falcon Crest (1981), Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983), Knight Rider (1982), Lou Grant (1977), Barnaby Jones (1973), The Rockford Files (1974), The F.B.I. (1965), Cannon (1971), The Real McCoys (1957), Lawman (1958), The Rifleman (1958), Rawhide (1959), The Restless Gun (1957) and Conflict (1956).
Outside of his film and television work, Joyce acted in Broadway stage productions of "Damn Yankees" and "Bye Bye Birdie."
He retired from acting in the late 1980s, and died at age 67 on September 3, 1998, in Encino, California. - Actor
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Rake Yohn was born on 20 January 1975 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Blockheads in Britain (2022), Jackass 3D (2010) and A Halfway House Christmas (2005). He was previously married to Melissa Carr.- Producer
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Christopher Goutman was born on 19 December 1952 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a producer and director, known for As the World Turns (1956), All My Children (1970) and The Prowler (1981). He was previously married to Marcia McCabe.- Writer
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Gina Lombardi was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. She is known for Body of Evidence (2004), Monday Shorts (2016) and Health Interrupted Podcast (2021). She has been married to Kevin Sizemore since 25 September 2004. They have one child.- Actress
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Helen Coxe was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress, known for Julie & Julia (2009).- Meg Gallagher was a native of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and was one of 14 children. At age 19, she moved to New York City where she studied acting and did modeling. From 1978-1981, Meg was perhaps best-known for her role as J.R. Ewing's secretary Louella Caraway Lee in the popular TV show "Dallas". After leaving the show, she retired from acting. On May 27, 2000, Ms. Gallagher succumbed to chronic liver disease at age 50, in Santa Monica, California. Prior to her death, she worked as a publicity coordinator for author Laura Corn.
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Carl Mazzocone was born on 20 October 1958 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Boxing Helena (1993), Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) and Starman (1984).- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Daniel P. Mannix was born on 27 October 1911 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer and director, known for The Fox and the Hound (1981), Universal Color Parade: Parrot Jungle (1958) and Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959). He died on 29 January 1997 in Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA.- Actress
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- Production Designer
Susanna Moore was born on 9 December 1945 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for In the Cut (2003), Strange Behavior (1981) and Shampoo (1975). She was previously married to Richard Sylbert.- David Davies was born on 3 April 1906 in Bryn Mawr, Wales, UK. He was an actor, known for The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952), The Masque of the Red Death (1964) and Mystery Junction (1951). He was married to Muriel Miller. He died in June 1974 in Carmarthen, Wales, UK.
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- Actor
- Production Manager
Bill Daly was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), The Matrix (1999) and Troy (2004).- Joe Abdullah was born on 24 December 1926 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Rocky King, Detective (1950), Thriller (1960) and Mommie Dearest (1981). He was married to Alice Catherine Rowold. He died on 10 March 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Trevor Algatt was born on 18 April 1981 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and director, known for End of the Cornfield (2022), Donor (2011) and L.B. Rayne: Terminate Our Love (2015).- Additional Crew
Julian Wasser was born on 26 April 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. He is known for Icons Unearthed (2022), Biography (1987) and Cursed Films (2020). He died on 8 February 2023 in California, USA.- Amanda Lamb was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Jonathan Betzler was born on 23 June 1976 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an assistant director and director, known for Time Lapse (2014), One Particular Person (2000) and Homecoming (2005).- Marcia McCabe was born on 5 March 1955 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress, known for One Life to Live (1968), All My Children (1970) and Another World (1964). She has been married to Christopher Goutman since 13 April 1985. They have two children.
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James L. Fields was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound Recording. He worked on 400 films over a period of 45 years, including the 1942 re-release of Chaplin's "The Gold Rush" with added sound, and Buñuel's "Simon of the Desert." Most of his film career was spent working on films made in Mexico, including the Santo series and the Cantinflas films.- Neal Boortz was born on 6 April 1945 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor, known for The Visitor (1979), Al Franken: God Spoke (2006) and An Inconvenient Tax (2011). He has been married to Donna since 11 August 1973. They have one child.
- Kevin Dennis Marlo was born in a suburb of Philadelphia. He attended both Bishop Shannahan High School and Henderson High School, [which is also the Alma Mater of Kerr Smith of _"Dawson's Creek" (1999)_], in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Kevin moved on to college at the University of Pittsburgh where he graduated from the School of Business. After college, Kevin took a full time job at the investment banking firm of Sandler O'Neil on the 103 floor of the World Trade Center. In the year 2000 Kevin caught the acting bug and began looking for work as an extra. Shortly before the collapse of the WTC on 9-11-2001, Kevin had completed an episode of elimiDATE (2001) that was filmed on a ranch in Utah. He had also won the role of Korbin Kane in an independent short film entitled 'Flight', based on his screen tests. Out of respect for his death the writer/director scrapped the project. Also of note, Kevin appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno in an extended audience shot during an interview with Susan Sarandon.