Jayne Mansfield Bombshell with Music Ability: Madeline’s Monthly Musical Tips Blog/Article & Radio Show for October 2024
October 2024 is the Seventeenth Anniversary of “Madeline’s One Minute Musical Radio Show” and the Eighteenth Anniversary of “Madeline’s Monthly Musical Tips Blog/Article”.
Our blog/article and Radio Show shares the life and work of Jayne Mansfield, Actress, & Musician.
Learning a musical instrument teaches discipline, cooperation, teamwork, motivation, concentration and self-esteem. Studying a musical instrument develops millions of new connections, synapses, between nerve cells in the brain. Many of the world’s actors, inventors, mathematicians, scientists, engineers, medical doctors, researchers, and teachers have studied and played musical instruments since they were children. These eminent individuals have integrated music into their thinking process.
Our article of the month is “PENNIES TODAY EQUALS PROSPERITY TOMORROW” by Madeline Frank, Ph.D.
Radio Show Feature Question for October 2024: How did classical music play a part of Jayne Mansfield’s life and what musical instruments did she play?
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Early Years:
Vera Jayne Palmer (stage name Jayne Mansfield) was born on April 19, 1933 to Herbert William Palmer and Vera Jeffrey Palmer in Bryn Mawr. Pennsylvania. They then moved to Phillipsburg, New Jersey, where her father, William Palmer was an attorney practicing with Robert B. Meyner, the future governor of New Jersey. Her father tragically died of a heart attack in 1936.
Jayne’s mother Vera Jeffrey Palmer married Harry Lawrence Peers, a sales engineer in 1939. They moved to Dallas, Texas when she was 6 years old. Her new name was Vera Jayne Peers.
At five years of age she enjoyed singing to anyone who would listen “including her gigantic collection of stuffed animals.” She studied violin and piano at a young age. When Jayne was “seven, she would stand in her driveway and play the violin for passers-by.”
Her teachers thought of her as a violin and piano prodigy and someday “she would
Conquer Carnegie Hall.” (Hollywood Reporter.com Jayne Mansfield)
When she was 12 she took lessons in ballroom dancing. Jayne was a very good student in school.
“She spoke five languages and boasted an IQ of 163. (Mensa smart) At one of three colleges Jayne attended, she studied chemistry, abnormal psychology, and drama- a seeming recipe for success in Hollywood.” (Hollywood Reporter.com Jayne Mansfield)
In high school she studied Spanish and German, played in the orchestra, and participated in the local theater. (Wikipedia Jayne Mansfield)
“Jayne spoke five languages fluently: English, German, Hungarian, Italian, and Spanish.” (The 3 M’s: Jayne Mansfield)
Studying acting: University:
When Jayne was 17, she married Paul Mansfield and they had a daughter, Jayne Marie Mansfield.
Jayne and Paul Mansfield enrolled to study acting at Southern Methodist University.
Jayne in 1951 traveled to Los Angeles to attend “a summer semester at UCLA.”
Then she and her husband moved to Austin, Texas to study drama at the University of Texas.
Jayne Mansfield’s work to pay for school and lodging:
She worked door to door selling books, was a receptionist at a dance studio, and was a model.
At the University of Texas, she “joined the Curtain Club, a theatrical society.” Some of its members were composer Harvey Schmidt, actors Rip Torn, Pat Hingle, and lyricist Tom Jones.
At the Austin Civil Theater, Jayne acted in many plays learning the craft.
Moving back to Dallas in 1953, she studied acting with Baruch Lumet , the father of director Sidney Lumet and founder of the Dallas Institute of Performing Arts. Lumet “called Mansfield and Rip Torn his “kids”.
*1951 -1953 “she acted in The Slaves of Demon Rum, Ten Nights in a Barroom, Macbeth, and Anything Goes.”
* “Her performance in an October 1953 production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman attracted Paramount Pictures to audition her. Baruch Lumet trained her for the audition.” (societytexas.com)
Jayne, Paul and Jayne Marie in 1954 moved to Los Angeles. (Jayne was 21 years old.)
During this time , she sold popcorn at the Stanley Warner Theatre, taught dance, sold candy at a movie theater, modeled at the Blue Book Model Agency, and worked at Esther Williams’ Trails Restaurant as a photographer .
*Her first film part was in “Female Jungle” was released in 1955. (Wikipedia Jayne Mansfield)
*Warner Brothers: 1955 ”Pete Kelly’s Blues” and “Illegal” opposite Edward G Robinson. A court room drama.
Mansfield’s agent, William Shiffrin, signed her to play film star Rita Marlowe in the Broadway play “Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?” with Walter Matthau and Orson Bean. “She accepted the part while working in producer Louis W. Kellman’s The Burglar (1957),”
She signed a six-year contract with Twentieth Century Fox on May 3, 1956. “Mansfield was still under contract to Broadway and continued playing Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? on stage until September 15, 1956.”
Her first starring film role was as Jerri Jordan in “The Girl Can’t Help It” (1956). The movie featured R&B and rock and roll musicians Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, and Fats Domino.
TV and Shows:
Kraft Mystery Theater, The Pat Boone Show, The Joey Bishop Show, The Bob Hope Show, What’s my Line? , The Ed Sullivan Show, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and many others. (Wikipedia Jayne Mansfield)
Jayne Mansfield married two more times and had four more children. (Wikipedia Jayne Mansfield)
Jayne Mansfield sang as a pop and country singer and played the violin in concert on the Ed Sullivan Show and on recordings (1954-1967) for labels 20th Century Fox Recordings, London Records, MGM Records, and Polydor Records.
She sang in English and in German for 7 of her films.
Jayne Mansfield plays “Concerto No. 6 in A Minor for violin and orchestra” on The Ed Sullivan Show:
https://youtu.be/rFEIOO8YIWY?si=zOsqJOrs59R21HYn
Jayne Mansfield died tragically in an auto accident on June 28, 1967 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was 34 years old. She was a wife, mother, actress, and lifelong musician.
PENNIES TODAY EQUALS PROSPERITY TOMORROW by Madeline Frank, Ph.D.
Developing the discipline of saving and investing is paying yourself first.
My friend Stewart taught his teenage daughter to save 40 cents out of each $1 she earned, beginning with her first job. She continued to do this through high school, college, and with her jobs as an adult. She now is the proud owner of two condos. Learn to save your money for your future car, house, condo, or other necessities and teach your family and friends to do this too.
My Momma, Romayne Leader Frank, taught me in high school to make a budget of my expenses, to keep a ledger of the money going into the bank and the money to be paid out for expenses. She also taught me to put my entire pay check in the bank, to pay all my bills, and to take out only the necessary amount for food and spending money. The remaining money went into my savings account. As a college student, I always had a job to help me pay my tuition, my apartment rent, utilities, and food.
So, start today to save your pennies and begin your prosperity for tomorrow. (C)2024, 2019 Madeline Frank
This article is the third of four articles on teaching you, to take hold of your finances.
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Wishing you and your family a happy October from Your Non-Invasive Medicine Music Expert, Madeline
For over 30 years, Dr. Madeline Frank has helped children and adults overcome problems through Classical music. Madeline Frank, Ph.D., DTM is an award-winning teacher, author, researcher, speaker, conductor, and concert artist. She has discovered a scientific link between studying a musical instrument and academic and societal success. Madeline Frank earned her Bachelor and Master’s degree from the Juilliard School of Music. Her education has included scholarships at the Juilliard School, Indiana University, and the University of Cincinnati and she has a violin performance diploma from the North Carolina School of the Arts. (C) 2024 Madeline Frank