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Coordinates: 53°08′37″N 1°11′47″W / 53.1435°N 1.1963°W / 53.1435; -1.1963
Mansfield is a town in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the main town in the Mansfield local government district. Mansfield is a part of the Mansfield Urban Area. The town is surrounded by a pocket of steep hills within the Maun Valley, and has a population of 67,885, with the entire of Mansfield district being 98,181.
Mansfield is thought to date back at least to Roman times, with coins from those times having been found there, as well as a villa. Later the early English royalty are said to have stayed there, the Mercian Kings having used it as a base for hunting in the nearby Sherwood Forest.
Mansfield has a large market square and around the market a large commercial centre including a museum, the Palace Theatre and numerous pubs, bars and night clubs. It has also a new indoor market which is nearing completion.
Mansfield was originally the home of Mansfield Brewery, once the largest independent brewer in the UK. The brewery was acquired by Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries for £253m in October 1999, with production of the Mansfield range of ales moving to other parts of the country. The brewery's assets were later sold to Pubmaster Ltd and the former site of the brewery is due for redevelopment. In the 1980s, Mansfield Bitter was advertised with a photograph of then US president Ronald Reagan and the tagline "He may be president of the most powerful nation on Earth but he's never had a pint of Mansfield"; "Not much matches Mansfield" was also used. Mansfield was also the location of an Irn-Bru factory, owned by the Scottish drinks company A. G. Barr, production ceased in January 2011 when A. G. Barr decided to close the factory. The brewery was demolished in late 2008 and the land is for sale.
Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American film, television and theater actress. In February 1955, she became one of the early Playmates. Keeping her first husband's last name, Mansfield worked in Hollywood and on Broadway. A leading sex symbol during the late 1950s, she was one of the original blonde bombshells. Mansfield starred in several popular Hollywood films which emphasized her platinum-blonde hair, hourglass figure and cleavage-revealing costumes. 20th Century Fox signed a six-year contact with Mansfield to replace Marilyn Monroe as their resident blonde sex symbol. Throughout her career, she was compared by the media to Monroe and another sex symbol, Mamie Van Doren. Mansfield was a Playboy Playmate of the Month and appeared in several issues of the magazine.
Although many people have never seen her movies, Jayne Mansfield remains, long after her death, one of the most recognizable icons of 1950s celebrity culture. Her statuesque figure (she claimed dimensions of 40-21-35), her unique sashaying walk, and her breathy baby talk made history. "From 1955 until the early 1960s, Mansfield reigned as Hollywood's gaudiest, boldest D-cupped B-grade actress" and was known as "the working man's Monroe".
Norma Jeane Mortensen Baker (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), professionally recognized as Marilyn Monroe, was an American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and early 1960s.
After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946 with Twentieth Century-Fox. Her early film appearances were minor, but her performances in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve (both 1950) drew attention to her. By 1953, Monroe had progressed to a leading role in Niagara (1953), a melodramatic film noir that dwelt on her seductiveness. Her "dumb blonde" persona was used to comic effect in subsequent films such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and The Seven Year Itch (1955). Limited by typecasting, Monroe studied at the Actors Studio to broaden her range. Her dramatic performance in Bus Stop (1956) was hailed by critics and garnered a Golden Globe nomination. Her production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, released The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination and won a David di Donatello award. She received a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Some Like It Hot (1959). Monroe's last completed film was The Misfits, co-starring Clark Gable with screenplay by her then-husband, Arthur Miller.
Actors: Frank Ferruccio (miscellaneous crew), Frank Ferruccio (producer), Frank Ferruccio (writer), Frank Ferruccio (producer), Frank Ferruccio (miscellaneous crew), Frank Ferruccio (miscellaneous crew), Frank Ferruccio (writer), Frank Ferruccio (producer), Frank Ferruccio (miscellaneous crew), Frank Ferruccio (actor), Mike Funk (actor), Brady Bryson (actor), Eric Santamaria (actor), Rob Villano (director), Rob Villano (producer),
Plot: In 1957, Golden Globe winner Jayne Mansfield would become one of the most iconic blond bombshells of the 20Th Century. She possessed an IQ of 163, played violin and piano at a concert level, had a degree in Science, spoke 5 languages fluently, and yet became a celebrity by portraying a 'dumb blond.' By the age of 23 she became the most publicized Hollywood star in the world, but her success was short lived. Five children, three ex-husbands, countless love affairs, and addictions to diet pills and booze took its toll on Mansfield, and in 1967 a grisly car accident ended her life. This film features many of Jayne Mansfield's personal items, and focuses on the turbulent final years of the troubled star's career.
Keywords: based-on-book, jayne-mansfieldActors: Jean-Claude Van Damme (actor), Charles Arthur Berg (producer), Clint Jung (actor), Mike Tristano (miscellaneous crew), Alfred Molina (actor), Carol A. Compton (miscellaneous crew), Mindy Robinson (actress), William Clark Coit III (miscellaneous crew), Laurent Boye-Guérin (miscellaneous crew), Matthew Wolf (producer), Lennie James (actor), Tree Adams (composer), Allison Andrade (miscellaneous crew), Vince Lozano (actor), Daniele Favilli (producer),
Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller,Actors: Corky Ehlers (editor), Lewis Arquette (actor), Alan Landsburg (producer), Dick Lowry (director), Warden Neil (costume designer), Charles Dennis (writer), Loni Anderson (actress), Buck Young (actor), Gwen Van Dam (actress), G.D. Spradlin (actor), Jimmie Haskell (composer), Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor), James Jeter (actor), J.P. Bumstead (actor), Joan Barnett (producer),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Carolyn De Fonseca (actress), Dick Randall (producer), Jayne Mansfield (actress), Marcello Gigante (composer), Mickey Hargitay (actor), Joel Holt (director), Ralph Zucker (producer), Arthur Knight (director), Rocky Roberts (actor), Charles Ross (writer), Bob Oliver (actor), Charles W. Broun Jr. (director), Charles W. Broun Jr. (producer), Robert Jason (actor), Lino Enner (actor),
Plot: Jayne takes us on a review of her last world tour. She takes us through Rome, shares a fantasy about Roman athletes, and then is off to Cannes. She takes a trip to the nudist colony on the Isle of Levant, where she almost kind of joins in. Then it's off to Paris, where she gets a beauty treatment from Fernand Aubrey, and attends some racy dance revues. In New York and Los Angeles, she visits some topless clubs and listens to a topless all-girl pop band. The film wraps up with some posthumous footage of her family in mourning.
Keywords: accident, actress, b-movie, bath, beauty-contest, character-name-in-title, cult-film, eiffel-tower-paris, erotica, exploitation