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seoll — 16 years ago(June 08, 2009 12:54 AM)

Darn, I was thinking she was a blond bimbo.
Jane was in the 160 IQ range, upper 3% quartile.

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NO CRYFORATTENTION YOU LOST YOUR SOUL!!
Ain't that the truth
D.H.F.F
Now end of day and Iam the Reaper:Silent hill

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Jane didn't lose her eternal soul
D.H.F.F
Now end of day and Iam the Reaper:Silent hill

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Her ambition was in the motion picture industry. There's also that 'daddy complex' since she lost hers so young. She wanted to feel loved and wanted tons of attention.
Dammit Carol Sue, where is the vodka?!

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Personally, I just can't understand why someone with such impressive intellectual gifts wouldn't want to actually make something of it, rather than spend their life downplaying it for lesser accomplishments.
Imagine if someone was potentially brilliant enough to develop a cure to cancer, but chose to "suppress" that intellect.

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It was Life magazine that had Jayne billed as Hollywood's Smartest Dumb Blonde. Mariska does have that cover framed and hung on her wall at her home since I've seen it many times for her "At Home" specials in magazines.
Jayne wasn't dumb, but she did made some dumb choices but haven't we all?
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Yes, I think she could speak English fluently! 😉
As for foreign languages, I am not sure to what extent she could speak them. She appeared in a German-language movie in the early 60s but she acts in English and is dubbed into German so I gues5b4s her German was nowhere near fluent. I've also seen footage of Jayne being interviewed in France and bravely stumbling through a handful of words in broken French before switching to English. She also seemed to giggle rather nervously throughout which I took to mean she didn't quite understand everything that was said to her.
I think the "she spoke 5 languages" thing has been wildly exaggerated. Perhaps the IQ score has too. We'll probably never know. There's certainly no reason to doubt it. I wonder though whether the IQ and languages thing were just studio spin to contrast with her image as a dumb blonde.
By no means dumb but certainly no polyglot.

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Apparently Jayne could speak French, English, Spanish, Italian and German.
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I don't know that anybody can actually verify things like an IQ score , especially with information that's so old so you'd just have to take their word for it . Anyone can play the piano and violin being "classically trained" and it doesn't mean they are an expert . I've never heard she could play it well just that she was "classically trained" so it's how you interpret the information you hear . I always hear 5 languages but never hear which ones . It was probably exaggerated a bit . But that being said , even minus any exaggerations I'd say she was still far from a bimbo .

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The IQ thing and the rest is a mythbegun by Jayne herself! She was plenty smart, charming and had LOADS of confidence. The way things went with her career, she might have done better to have been a wee bit more insecure, and taken smart advice. Or any advice! (Marilyn, on the other hand, took too much advice, from too many people.)
Jayne was an intelligent woman. But she was no genius.

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There was a documentary some years ago on Ovation channel called Blondes: Jayne Mansfield that provided clips of her playing the piano
and the violin
Her oldest daughter, Jayne Marie, had confirmed that Jayne could speak 5 languages.
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As with a lot of Hollywood stars, maybe her talents were slightly exaggerated. Hollywood spin is endurable. She was lovely though. 🙂

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I see that "could play violin and speak 5 languages" thing a lot, but just watching her play violin it doesn't seem she was very talented at it. Being able to play and being able to play
well
are two different things. I don't think she was fluent in 5 languages. I'm sure she was a smart lady, although I wouldn't know where to find "proof" of her IQ test scores.
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@BlueGreen
However, intelligence does not always, or necessarily, translate into business acumen or eloquence.
You're rightit also dosen't always translate into being a caring, decent person either.

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has anyone got any proof Jayne had such a high IQ?
I suppose not, but that's true of EVERYONE's intelligence quotient.
Even if tested (and IQ tests are highly flawed, to say the least), the results are confidential, believe it or not, so anyone who would reveal such things wouldn't be all that trustworthy, anyway.
For what's it worth, I have no problem believing that she was an extraordinarily intelligent person. However, intelligence does not always, or necessarily, translate into business acumen or eloquence.

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