This Is Your Life - Jayne Mansfield (2/3)

This episode of This Is Your Life features Jayne Mansfield as the celebrity guest. Host Ralph Edwards introduces Mansfield's mother and step-father, her counselor from Southern Methodist
University, show business friends and her husband Miklós Hargitay and children.

This series ran from 1952 to 1961. The show's format was a documentary which provided a biography of the guest by featuring surprise visits from influential figures in the guest's life.

Interesting comments from Wikipedia:

Some celebrities were unpleasantly surprised. Angie Dickinson refused to appear, and Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy was angered by being "tricked" into what would be the team's only American television appearance on 1 December 1954. The meticulous Laurel later said, "[Oliver Hardy] and I were always planning to do something on TV. But we never dreamed that we would make our television debut on an unrehearsed network program... I was damned if I was going to put on a free show for them," although he mellowed in later years when so many viewers told him how much they enjoyed the show. Lowell Thomas was probably the most hostile and annoyed on-air guest. When host Ralph Edwards tried to assure him that he would enjoy what was to come, Thomas replied, "I doubt that very much."

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[supinedream]

That was so sweet to see her with her family! thank you so much for posting!

[hwy61media]

@supinedream You're welcome. Thank you for watching and commenting. -Michael

[gertrudewhite]

Good for her, she took her baby with her to school instead of acting like the kid was an inconvenience during college. :^)

[hwy61media]

@gertrudewhite She was something, wasn't she?

[treynamy]

OH MY GOSH!!! Dr. Chapman is my grandfather! We've been looking for a copy of this video for YEARS! Thanks so much!

[hwy61media]

I'm glad you found it!

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[Mike6E]

@chrissen1 Monroe was no dumb blonde, either!

[OldHollywood93]

Jammu, Sammy and Pammy.

Ahh she's so cute.

[SilverScorpion09]

Interesting TV show for its day! It is also amazing to see the reaction of the host when Jayne mentioned that she took her baby to classes at the University. She was truly beautiful and glamorous, yet so down-to-earth, soft, and strong-willed. Definitely an ambitious young woman who was also a wonderful mother!

[chrissen1]

This was NO dumb blonde a la Monroe-sad ending for her though.

[vampress18]

OMG SHE LOOKS LIKE MARISKA WELL ILL HAVE TO SAY MARISKA LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE HER. OMG SHES ADORABLE.

[supinedream]

Good for her, going back to school as a single mother in those days!!! what a woman!!

[elmscaitlyn]

@treynamy is he really?