In the 1950s, Jayne Mansfield became a celebrity as a cartoonishly sensual alternative to Marilyn Monroe. But like her rival, her life and tragic death left many mysteries. We offer to review life in photos of the famous Jane Mansfield.

A.k.a. Vera Jayne Palmer, Jayne Mansfield was born on April 19th, 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, though by the time she was three her family had moved to Dallas. It shouldn't be surprising that Jayne developed a passion for music at such an early age considering that her father was a former lawyer who now plays music. Mansfield had learned the violin by the time she was seven years old. Mansfield started taking ballroom dance lessons when she was 12 years old, and soon after that, she started studying the piano and the viola.

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