Gertrude Lawrence

. Jayne Mansfield has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6328 Hollywood Boulevard.
. Though her remains are in Fairview Cemetery, with a large and beautiful heart shaped monument, and the graves of her mother and stepfather are beside hers, a memorial cenotaph is in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, California, in her honor.
. She is interred in Fairview Cemetery, just southeast of Pen Argyl. In the 1968 film, Star!, based on her life, Gertrude Lawrence was played by Julie Andrews. Her private funeral service, attended by her family and second husband, Hargitay, was held on July 3, 1967 at Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, officiated by a Methodist minister.

She died of cervical cancer in New York, New York and was buried in her pink "Shall We Dance?" gown from the second act of The King and I in Lakeview Cemetery, in Upton, Massachusetts. This urban legend was possibly spawned by the fact that her blonde wig flew off her head and was seen in police photographs. She won the 1952 Tony Award for Best Actress for her role as Anna Leonowens in Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I. Erroneously, it was said that Mansfield was decapitated in the accident. This is not true, though she did suffer severe head trauma. She starred as Liza Elliot in Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin's psychoanalytic musical Lady in the Dark, and was a popular entertainer of the troops in World War II. Though all three children survived with minor injuries, as they were cushioned from serious harm, the adults were instantly killed, as was Mansfield's pet Chihuahua. Noel Coward wrote Private Lives and Tonight at 8:30 (a cycle of nine one-act musicals and plays) for her. She was riding in the front seat of the 1966 Buick Electra with Harrison and Brody, and her children were sleeping in back, as the roadway became obscured by a white haze from a distant mosquito fogger, which prevented Harrison from discerning the presence of a slow-moving tractor-trailer ahead. They crashed into the truck and slid under it as the top of her car was sheered back.

In this play she was the first British actress to create a lead role on Broadway. Cole Porter wrote Nymph Errant for her to star in London in 1929. On June 29 at approximately 4:07 a.m., Mansfield died in a car accident on U.S. Highway 90 in rural Orleans Parish, Louisiana, about one mile west of the Rigolets Bridge. George and Ira Gershwin wrote Oh, Kay! for her, with the song "Someone to Watch Over Me," which became a standard. After an engagement at the Gus Stevens Supper Club in Biloxi, Mississippi, Mansfield, her boyfriend, lawyer Sam Brody, and her driver, Ronnie Harrison, along with Mickey Jr., age eight, Zoltan, age six, and Mariska, age three, headed to New Orleans, where she was to appear on a TV interview later that day. Her onstage persona inspired composers and writers. She died before the movie was completed. She is also thought to have had lesbian affairs, notably with Daphne Du Maurier. Her time was split between a Southern nightclub tour and the production of Single Room, Furnished, a drama directed by Cimber.

She married Richard Aldrich in 1940. In 1967, her life was moving at full speed. They divorced in 1927. And LaVey's public claims of an affair with her apparently began only after her death. She married Francis Gordon-Howley in 1924, and they had a daughter, Pamela. It was a laugh." So, it appears that her involvement with the Church of Satan was no more than another photo-shoot. Her great charisma is attested to by those who saw her onstage, but her films fail to convey her charm. In an interview, Mansfield said, "He had fallen in love with me and wanted to join my life with his.

She was one of the foremost comediennes of her time, capable of playing both slapstick clowns and elegant ladies. Mansfield, who made no secret of her many affairs, denied being intimate with LaVey and no associate of hers ever confirmed any such romance. She understudied Beatrice Lillie in Andre Charlot's London revues on the 1920s, and became their star when they were brought to Broadway in 1924 and 1926. According to Jayne's press agent, Ray Strait, "The biggest backfire of a press stunt that she ever pulled." LaVey was apparently smitten with the actress, who was not interested. She was born Gertrude Alexandria Dagmar Lawrence-Klasen in London, England, and was a professional performer by the age of ten. The truth apparently is that a meeting between Mansfield and LaVey was arranged as a publicity stunt. She was particularly associated with the light comedy of Noel Coward. Some allege that she became involved with the International Church Of Satan, founded in 1966 by Anton LaVey, and that she had an affair with LaVey.

Gertrude Lawrence (June 4, 1898 - September 6, 1952) was an actress and musical performer popular in the 1930s-40s, appearing on stage in London and on Broadway, and in several films. Cimber took over the management of her career during their brief marriage. Gertrude Lawrence's Internet Movie Database page (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0492775/). When her marriage to Hargitay broke up, she married Matt Cimber, who had directed her in a stage production of Bus Stop in Yonkers, New York. Gertrude Lawrence's Internet Broadway Database page (http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?id=49117). It is said that she turned down the role of Ginger Grant in the TV sitcom Gilligan's Island. The Glass Menagerie - 1950. She appeared in low-budget productions, mostly in Europe, often opposite Hargitay.

Catherine the Great - 1948. Despite the monumental publicity she received as a sex symbol, by the mid-1960s her movie career was in steep decline. Brief Encounter - 1945. She did a number of guest spots on television, which included cameo appearances on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Jack Benny Show, The Steve Allen Show and Burke's Law. Men Are Not Gods - 1936. Mansfield also headlined in Las Vegas with her own nightclub act, toured military bases with Bob Hope for the USO and released a live album titled Jayne Mansfield Busts Up Las Vegas. Rembrandt - 1936. In 2002, he sold it for about $4,000,000 to developers and it was torn down in November of that year.

Mimi - 1935. Singer Engelbert Humperdinck bought the Pink Palace in the 1970s. No Funny Business - 1933. Mansfield turned it into her famous "Pink Palace." It was painted pink, had pink decorations, a bed with heart-shaped canopy and marble cupids above the bedstead that was surrounded by pink fluorescent lights, pink fur on the floors of the bathrooms, a pink heart-shaped bathtub, a fountain spurting pink champagne, and a large pink heart-shaped swimming pool, hand-built by Hargitay. Lord Camber's Ladies - 1932. After they married, she and Hargitay bought a 40-room Mediterranean-style mansion formerly owned by Rudy Vallee at 10100 Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills for $75,000. Aren't We All? - 1932. "You are so beautiful," she said to the Queen, who replied, "So are you.".

The Battle of Paris - 1929. She was presented to Queen Elizabeth on November 4. The King and I - 1951. In October 1957, Mansfield went on a sixteen country tour of Europe for 20th Century Fox. Pygmalion - 1945. Jayne-Marie was a Playboy centerfold in July 1976; and Mariska has become an actress with a list of movie and TV credits that would undoubtedly make her mother proud. Gratefully Yours - 1942. But Hargitay apparently never questioned the girl's paternity and raised her as his own.

Lady in the Dark - 1941. Actor Nelson Sardelli claims to have fathered Mariska. Skylark. One biographer quotes Jayne as saying that Paul was not Jayne-Marie's father, but that she married him rather than getting an abortion as she was personally opposed to it. Susan and God - 1937. She and Paul had one child, Jayne-Marie Mansfield (born November 8, 1950); she and Mickey had three children, Miklós Jeffrey Hargitay (born December 21, 1958), Zoltan Anthony Hargitay (born August 1, 1960) and Mariska Magdolina Hargitay (born January 24, 1964); and she and Matt had one child, Antonio Raphael Ottaviano Cimber (or Anthony Richard) (born October 18, 1965). Still Life. Mansfield had three husbands, Paul Mansfield (married May 10, 1950-divorced 1958), actor and bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay (married January 13, 1958-divorced 1964) and director Matt Cimber (married September 24, 1964-divorced 1966).

Family Album. Mansfield and Hargitay were married the same day her divorce became final. Ways and Means. Hargitay, however, showed up early, to quit prior to being fired, and got into a fight with another strong man in the act, who gave Hargitay a black eye. Fumed Oak. West angrily held a press conference on June 6, 1956, to announce Hargitay's dismissal. Shadow Play. Universe of 1955, Mickey Hargitay, who was then in a nightclub act starring Mae West and married himself.

We Were Dancing. Her marriage to Paul faltered when she began a romance with muscleman and Mr. The Astonished Heart. Mansfield, Monroe and Mamie Van Doren were sometimes referred to as the "3 M's.". Red Peppers. She was invariably compared, usually with disfavor, to Marilyn Monroe, the most famous blonde sex symbol of the era. Hands Across the Sea. She would play similar roles throughout the remainder of her career.

Tonight at 8:30 - 1936