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Jayne Mansfield's Legacy Explored in 'My Mom ... - Biloxi Sun Herald
- The documentary My Mom Jayne, premiering June 27 on HBO, explores Jayne Mansfield’s life and legacy through her daughter Mariska Hargitay’s perspective.
- Hargitay began the project during a lockdown pause in filming Law & Order: SVU, seeking to understand the woman behind Mansfield’s public image and scandals.
- Jayne Mansfield, born Vera Jayne Palmer in 1933, became a famous sex-symbol actress with notable Broadway and film roles before dying in a 1967 car crash at age 34.
- The crash occurred near Slidell, Louisiana, around 2 a.m. when Mansfield’s car went under a tractor-trailer, killing all three front seat passengers and prompting the safety feature nicknamed the Mansfield bar.
- Hargitay’s documentary and disclosures about her own trauma suggest a deeper exploration of family truths and highlight her ongoing work in supporting survivors through her foundation.
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Review: In 'My Mom Jayne,' Mariska Hargitay grapples with a secret and her mother's choices
That Mariska Hargitay is the daughter of Jayne Mansfield is one of those things everyone who knows anything about either of them seems to know — in some cases maybe the only thing. Even Hargitay — who was only 3…
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‘My Mom Jayne’: Mariska Hargitay Reclaims Her Own Story in New Doc
'I'm reclaiming my own story; this is what this is about for me,' Hargitay says in the new doc.
Icon of the 50s and 60s, the actress died tragically at the age of 34, leaving five children including little Mariska. For her first feature film, her daughter plunged into photos, interviews and archives in search of an erased memory. ...
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npr'Law & Order' star investigates her own family's tragic car crash in 'My Mom Jayne'
Mariska Hargitay has only the vaguest memories of her mother, Jayne Mansfield, the sex-symbol movie star who died in the 1967 crash. Now, Hargitay examines her family history in a new documentary.
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