Who's hotter Jayne Mansfield or Marilyn Monroe?
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BoyWiththeGreenHair — 11 years ago(July 04, 2014 02:02 PM)
At her peak, Jane Mansfield was more beautiful than Norma Jean Baker could ever have hoped to be. But, by the 1960s, her stylistic appearance became more masculine, almost deliberately channeling the image of the drag queen to appeal to the newfound gay demographic which she had picked up as her career began to wane.
From the looks of it her image became concentrated on suggesting the vapid, the infantile, promoting subservience to her husband as opposed to the equal partnership she was in with Mickey; more visibly desperate and willing to get attention at any cost.
In the long run, Marilyn was just more consistent. At her lowest points, near the end of her life, she still was ravishing and possessing a certain allure that Jayne she didn't have in films like
Las Vegas Hillbillies
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marvelass — 11 years ago(September 11, 2014 04:54 PM)
Well, what with the Actors Studio and stuff Marilyn goes in for, and her acting with Laurence Olivier and all that, I want to strike out on the common trail, I want to be the ordinary mans conception of what a sexy, obliging, comradely, down to earth girlfriend ought to be. - Jayne Mansfield
Translation:
Marilyn is artistic, intellectual, dedicated, well-read, liberal, worldly, and refined, a serious actress with substance, while I would rather strive for mediocrity and be considered a "hot" brainless fembot to the woefully ignorant common neanderthal. Take that!
Mansfield also said:
"The real stars are not actors or actresses. Theyre personalities. The quality of making everyone stop in their tracks is what I workb68 at.
Thus, unlike Marilyn, she didn't give a fig about perfecting her acting craft or to be taken seriously as an actress; all she cared about was fame, fortune, and publicity. It's hard to like someone who was so superficial and shallow.
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hilljayne — 11 years ago(October 02, 2014 02:25 PM)
^Oh pleaseshe just means that one doesn't have to go without bathing and sleeping in the street in order to play a homeless personwhich is basically the gist of Strasberg
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marvelass — 11 years ago(December 20, 2014 12:10 AM)
Uh, no, read again her quotes above, particularly:
"I want to be the ordinary mans conception of what a sexy, obliging, comradely, down to earth girlfriend ought to be.
"The quality of making everyone stop in their tracks is what I work at.
Thus, she only cared about looking good and being the average joe's fantasy. She didn't give a fig about acting at all. She only wanted to be a star, a personality, as she said. She proved this by all the publicity stunts she pulled and the quality of her films.
Furthermore, Olivier was not a method actor. In fact, he and Marilyn clashed on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl (which he also directed) because he couldn't understand the process. He also once famously told Dustin Hoffman (when they starred together in The Marathon Man) to learn how to act. Hoffman, being a method actor, had stayed awake for three days because his character was supposed to have been sleep-deprived for just as long.
So Mansfield was definitely not referring to the method specifically, since she also grouped Marilyn with Olivier.
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MydnightRose — 10 years ago(October 21, 2015 07:54 PM)
Marilyn is more beautiful. There is somrthing cartoonish about Jaynes body and face. I dont know if she had work done or not but her face looks clownish and her body is too curvy to he attractive.
I don't think if Jayne came first that she would have been as big as Marilyn.
As for fake Marilyn's I would put Jayne below Anna Nicole Smith.
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