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Having spent 10 years as Jayne Mansfield's press secretary, Raymond Strait has learned intimately both the open public image and the private person that was Jayne Mansfield. Relaxing through thousands of hours of interviews and private discussions - not only with Jayne but also with her husbands, her buffs, and her children - offered Ray the possibility to present a revealing family portrait of the woman. He documents her drive for popularity and success and her overpowering have to be loved and also to love, needs that led her into numerous affairs with wealthy and powerful men - including Chief executive John F. Kennedy - and with young men from all strolls of life. And he discusses frankly Jayne's finally successful plan to become pregnant by Nelson Sardelli because she wished to provide an Italian child. Recognized to hundreds of thousands as the consummate making love icon who rivaled Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield received more press coverage than anyone else in Hollywood. The headlines were often sensational, causing society matrons and Baptist ministers to tremble their heads and point their hands. But under those sensational headlines there is a female of greater difficulty than any reporter could desire to understand. Strait moves below the surface to examine Jayne's thoughts and motivations, exposing the reality about her many buffs, her three unsuccessful marriages, her love affair with Mickey Hargitay that lasted to the end, and her struggle against and her surrender to alcohol and drugs.
