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Jayne Mansfield and the American fifties
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"This is the story of a Texas high school girl (her marks were good, she had an aptitude for Spanish, and she played the violin) who went on the make a career out of her physical attributes. The time was right and she exploited that time for all it was worth. Ms. Saxton has written a gaudy and sometimes appalling account of Jayne Mansfield's life--her attempt to crash Hollywood with little more than brass, a reluctant husband, and a careful of pets, her publicity stunts, her marriages, her strange entourage, and her ultimate undoing, which as less her fault than it was a symptom of changing moral standards. This is a backward look, too, not always fond, at such diverse aspects of fifties-iana as mating habits, lipstick, bras and pantie girdles, breast fetishism, "good" girls vs. "nice" girls, the baby boom (to which Jayne contributed mightily), the Hollywood build-ups, and the reams that nurtured us, not so very long ago. Jayne Mansfield and the American fifties is both a powerful and entertaining biography and a perceptive and witty view of the recent, and largely unlamented, history of American women." --Jacket flap.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Westchester Library System.
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0 current holds with 1 total copy.| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
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| Mount Vernon Public Library | MEZZ B MANSFIED (Text) Biography |
31018011842171 |
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