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Actress 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.
The film was released in December 1949, a year after her previous screen appearance in An Act of Murder.