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[host] About an hour ago,
a big crowd
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walked in our stage door,
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and it was Jayne Mansfield.
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[applause]
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Here she is,
the lovely Jayne Mansfield.
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[applause continues]
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[unsettling tone resonating]
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- [applause intensifies]
- [shrill, punctuated droning]
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[cacophony ends abruptly]
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[birds chirping]
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[gentle, pensive instrumentals
playing]
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[projector clicks]
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[projector clicks]
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[projector clicks]
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[camera shutter
snapping rapidly]
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[music intensifies slightly]
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[Jayne] I feel like
Mother Goose
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I have so many children.
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[host] What are their names?
Who's that?
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This is Miklós.
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[host] Hi, Miklós.
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- [Mariska] Maria...
- [host] Pardon? Who are you?
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[giggles]
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[audience laughter]
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This little fella,
what's his name?
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What is your name?
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- Zolie!
- [host] What?
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[Mariska]
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[host] Get your own show,
kid, will ya?
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[audience laughter]
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[cohost] What's your name,
darling?
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[crowd marvels]
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[Mariska] Maria.
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[gentle, pensive piano melody
playing]
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[Jayne] I feel that
if you bear children,
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your first obligation
is to your children,
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whether you're a movie star
or whether you wash dishes.
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If anything ever happens
to my career,
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if I'm in an auto accident,
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if my face is scarred,
if I lose my legs...
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if any terrible mishap
happens,
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my children
will always be cared for.
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[gentle lilting melody joins,
builds]
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[music intensifies gently]
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[music softens abruptly]
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[music fades out]
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[traffic humming in distance]
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[gentle, solemn instrumentals
playing]
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[Mariska] I was three years
old when my mom died.
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And I don't really have
any memories of her.
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I can remember one time
eating a bowl of cereal...
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and I remember
her touching my hair.
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But I don't know
if that's a real memory
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or something that I made up
because I wished it happened.
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After she passed away,
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a moment that's always
stayed with me is when
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I found my baby book.
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All of my siblings had one,
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but when I looked through mine
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it was practically empty.
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So on top of having
no memories,
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I think it just gave me
a sense of more loss.
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It was like this little hole
in my heart.
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As I got older,
my dad would say to me,
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"Don't read the books
about your mother.
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Don't read the books.
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You don't need to read
those books."
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He said
that they were full of lies,
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full of sensational bullshit.
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Things that he didn't want me
to have to deal with.
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So I did everything he said
and I never read the books.
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[prolonged, sorrowful bass
note plays]
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At a certain point, I began
to carry a lot of shame
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about her image
as a sex symbol
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and all the choices
that came with that.
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So I pushed the idea of my mom
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further and further away
from my life.
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But as my career grew,
I started getting fan mail
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from people who knew I was
Jayne Mansfield's daughter.
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Maybe they knew her
or they had an interaction
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or they had a photo.
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And... it was just a lot.
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"Dear Ms. Hargitay,
I have a program
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from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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in which your mother starred."
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"Dear Mariska, I was a close
friend of your mom and dad."
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"Hello, Mariska.
Jayne lived next door
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and would practice
her violin every afternoon."
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"Dear Ms. Hargitay,
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you should have
this memorabilia of your mom.
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They include
your birth announcement
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and other stuff."
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[gentle, slowly plodding
piano melody playing]
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I kept everything
that was sent to me,
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and I think that was
sort of the beginning.
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My mom became someone
that I thought
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more and more about.
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During the pandemic,
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I even threw her
a birthday party.
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♪ Happy birthday ♪
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♪ Dear Jayne ♪
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Not a lot of people
throw birthday parties
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for their dead mothers,
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but there was
a sort of magic to it.
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[tinkling bell
instrumentals playing]
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It was around that time
that I began to feel like
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I actually wanted
to get to know her.
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Not as the sex symbol
Jayne Mansfield,
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but just as Jayne,
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my mom Jayne.
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My dad, who was my rock,
died in 2006.
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And there were
so many questions
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that I never asked him.
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I've also never really talked
to my siblings much
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about their experiences.
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But I want to understand
her now.
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Because it's a part
of my life,
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and a part of me,
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that's always felt
locked away.
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[instrumentals fade]
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[gentle, plucky instrumentals
playing]
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[indistinct crowd chatter]
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[beeping]
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[camera shutter clicks]
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[man] Sorry, let me
bring this in for a sec.
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I like the wood
on top of that. It's nice.
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- [man] Custom.
- Yeah.
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[Mariska] Ready?
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So we'll go over here. Careful.
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[woman] Okay.
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[Mariska] Let's kiss
like Danmama. Remember?
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That's how my grandmother
used to kiss.
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[Jayne Marie laughs]
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[Mariska] Ready?
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Okay.
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Are we good?
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I mean...
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- As good as we're gonna be.
- Good as we-- [laughs]
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I don't know how the hell you
got me to do this! [laughs]
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[Mariska laughs]
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Trying to make you a--
Trying to make you a big star
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with those baby blues.
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That's not gonna happen.
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[Mariska] So.
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[Mariska sighs]
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- Here we are.
- [Mariska] You ready?
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Yes, we are. [inhales]
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We're here.
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[Mariska] I've been waiting
for this day for a long time.
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And first of all,
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I just wanna say
thank you for doing this,
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and I feel like
I'm nervous now...
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[laughs] ...because I know
that you're not a fan
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of, um, you know,
talking about this stuff.
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So, we'll see where it goes
and see how we feel,
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and if you don't want to talk
about anything, don't.
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Thank you, Marish.
Thank you for asking me.
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It's an honor, definitely,
and anything you ask,
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you know I'm there for you.
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[Mariska] Thank you.
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I first want to talk about
our childhood a little bit.
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Because you have
all these memories,
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and I'm envious of that.
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I don't have memories.
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[sighs deeply]
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[Zoltan swallows,
breathes heavily]
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[exhales heavily]
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Well, you... your...
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Hmm.
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[swallows hard, inhales]
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Can you cut for a minute?
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[gentle, plinking piano
and flute melody playing]
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[Mickey Jr.] I guess,
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rather than have, like,
memories,
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it feels more like
I remember an essence.
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Like a nuance of the person,
if that makes sense.
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I remember her presence...
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[somber string melody joins]
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...and I remember some
of the feelings of that time.
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I have to kind of dig deep
to find them.
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But the general feeling
was good in those early days.
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[projector click echoes]
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[music slows, transitions]
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[gentle, fast-paced
ticking rhythm playing]
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[Jayne Marie] Back then,
we were living in Texas,
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and it was just me and her.
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I mean,
I can just picture her,
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'cause she was so young.
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My father,
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his name was Paul Mansfield.
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And at the time,
they were married.
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When I was a kid, I remember,
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she used to look
at all the movie stars
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and go to movies all the time.
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I mean, she shared that with me.
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[flash bulb snapping]
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She had her idols.
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And she wanted to be
one of those stars.
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Paul Mansfield was
a very churchgoing Texan,
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and not into that at all.
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But she was committed to it.
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She pursued it
in drama classes.
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She just had that desire
to be a serious actress.
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And she was totally
determined to do that.
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So, she decided, "Hey,
I'm coming to California.
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I'm gonna do it."
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Paul Mansfield
came out with us.
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But he realized that she wasn't
going to, um, leave.
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[laughs] So he left
and she and I stayed.
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[traffic humming]
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[bright, optimistic
instrumentals playing]
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In the beginning,
she'd show up for anything.
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- [flash bulb snapping]
- She would model.
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She taught dance.
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She'd sell candy
at The Wiltern Theatre.
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Anything, to be noticed.
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And, you know, she'd take me
with her everywhere.
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I have a lot of memories
of those days,
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because I had her to myself.
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But then, she got noticed
by an agent,
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and he got her some auditions.
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[music softens]
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[interviewer]
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[Jayne]
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[pensive, plodding melody
playing]
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[Jayne Marie]
At the time, we were living
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in an apartment
in Los Angeles,
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making ends meet.
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And then all of a sudden...
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she was getting roles.
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You're trouble, Al.
You always will be.
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But I've come along to give you
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a taste of your own medicine.
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[man] Who made the call?
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Ray Borden.
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- [crowd clamoring]
- [gavel banging]
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- [man] You sure of that?
- Absolutely.
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He told me his name.
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Besides, he was very insulting.
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We got to talking about this
and that
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and she tells me she's crazy
about John Facenda.
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- John Facenda?
- He's a news reporter.
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He's on television.
He's on every night.
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At 11 o'clock for 15 minutes.
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[music softens, slows]
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[traffic humming]
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[music fades]
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[Mariska] When did you realize
what was happening?
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[car horn honks]
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[Jayne Marie] I probably
started noticing it
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when I was around five or six.
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[gentle, glimmering notes
playing]
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She was 22
and she was on Broadway.
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[bright, cheery music playing]
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[applause]
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[crowd cheering]
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That play, Will Success
Spoil Rock Hunter?,
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that's what put her on the map.
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[music fades]
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I mean, I remember we lived
in The Plaza Hotel.
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One time, it was Easter
and it was just her and me,
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and she said,
"I got a surprise for you.
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Go into the bathroom."
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And I go in there
and open the door
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and there's hundreds
of little baby chicks
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and I remember us
just sitting down on the floor
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and laughing and giggling.
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I almost wanna cry
because I remember it.
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[gentle, poignant music playing]
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[Jayne Marie sniffles]
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[breathing heavily]
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[tearfully] Because I can
just feel her holding me
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and smiling and laughing.
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[exhales softly, sniffles]
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[music fades]
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[dog barks in distance]
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[Mariska] After my mom died
when she was 34,
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our family had to deal
with a lot of things.
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00:16:57,433 --> 00:17:01,270
One of those things was that
she didn't have a will.
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00:17:02,938 --> 00:17:06,233
So the state sold off
her belongings
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to pay her debts.
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And there were just
a handful of items
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00:17:10,946 --> 00:17:13,282
that my siblings and I
were able to keep.
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[Zoltan] I have her baby shoes.
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[Mariska] Oh my God.
286
00:17:19,621 --> 00:17:21,623
Yeah. And they're worn too.
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[whispering] Yeah. I love this.
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Look at these shoes.
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- They're gorgeous.
- Just to share.
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- That was beautiful.
- Yeah.
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[plastic crinkling]
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[Mariska]
For me, a lot of this
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is about reclaiming
what was lost.
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Even physical things.
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00:17:45,397 --> 00:17:47,941
So I decided
to finally go through
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our family storage unit
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because no one has opened
the boxes since 1969.
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[squeaking]
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[wood creaks]
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Hmm...
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[rustling loudly]
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[sudden quiet]
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00:18:09,171 --> 00:18:11,173
[rustling loudly]
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00:18:11,256 --> 00:18:13,592
[sudden quiet]
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00:18:13,675 --> 00:18:16,053
- [rustling loudly]
- [Mariska sighs]
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[sudden quiet]
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00:18:19,056 --> 00:18:20,390
[sighs]
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00:18:21,016 --> 00:18:24,561
I wish my siblings could
be here with me for this.
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00:18:24,686 --> 00:18:27,314
[inhales deeply, sighs]
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[door creaks]
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[metallic squeaking]
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[Mariska sighs]
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Oh my gosh.
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00:18:39,284 --> 00:18:41,453
That's her and Paul Mansfield.
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00:18:42,371 --> 00:18:43,539
He got cut out.
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00:18:48,043 --> 00:18:49,169
Wow.
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00:18:50,087 --> 00:18:51,797
There's a lot of this.
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Who did she cut out?
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[papers rustling]
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00:19:01,723 --> 00:19:03,183
[tuts] Oh.
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00:19:05,477 --> 00:19:07,020
[Mariska sighs]
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00:19:08,897 --> 00:19:10,357
[Mariska exhales softly]
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00:19:11,984 --> 00:19:15,487
[continues breathing softly]
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00:19:21,326 --> 00:19:24,872
[door opening, creaking]
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[woman] I don't remember
having this.
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00:19:28,125 --> 00:19:29,334
[Mariska] There's Dad.
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[woman] Mickey.
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00:19:36,842 --> 00:19:38,677
[Mariska] What do you
remember about it?
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I'm sure he was not over her
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00:19:41,930 --> 00:19:43,223
when we met.
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00:19:43,307 --> 00:19:48,604
Because she passed away
June 29th, 1967,
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00:19:48,687 --> 00:19:52,524
and Mickey and I got married
in April of 1968.
333
00:19:52,608 --> 00:19:53,984
But you always have them
with you.
334
00:19:54,109 --> 00:19:56,778
There's no way that,
once you love somebody,
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00:19:56,904 --> 00:19:59,072
that they ever leave your heart.
336
00:19:59,156 --> 00:20:01,283
I don't care who, I don't care
how angry you are,
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00:20:01,408 --> 00:20:02,826
I don't care anything.
338
00:20:02,951 --> 00:20:05,495
If you really love somebody,
they remain in there.
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00:20:06,496 --> 00:20:07,706
Come on, buds.
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00:20:09,541 --> 00:20:12,961
[gentle, intriguing music
playing]
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00:20:18,300 --> 00:20:19,885
[Ellen]
Mickey was from Hungary.
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00:20:23,305 --> 00:20:27,476
When he was 20, he was
a championship speed skater.
343
00:20:29,144 --> 00:20:31,605
He was on the national team
for soccer.
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00:20:33,523 --> 00:20:35,984
He was also an adagio dancer.
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00:20:38,237 --> 00:20:40,072
He came to the United States
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00:20:40,155 --> 00:20:42,449
with seven dollars
in his pocket,
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00:20:42,532 --> 00:20:45,202
and then he became a catcher
for the circus.
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00:20:47,746 --> 00:20:49,748
And I mean, that was before
he was working out
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00:20:49,831 --> 00:20:51,416
to become a bodybuilder.
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00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:53,877
[high-spirited orchestral
music playing]
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00:20:54,002 --> 00:20:55,379
He became Mr. Indianapolis,
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00:20:56,004 --> 00:20:57,089
Mr. Indiana,
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00:20:57,839 --> 00:20:59,049
Mr. Midwest America,
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00:20:59,925 --> 00:21:01,301
and finally Mr. Universe.
355
00:21:05,555 --> 00:21:07,391
Mickey would say,
356
00:21:07,516 --> 00:21:09,351
"If you can dream it,
you can do it."
357
00:21:10,185 --> 00:21:11,770
That's who Mickey was.
358
00:21:16,024 --> 00:21:17,943
So after being crowned
Mr. Universe
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00:21:18,026 --> 00:21:21,488
he got a job onstage
doing a show in New York
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00:21:21,571 --> 00:21:22,906
for Mae West.
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00:21:25,701 --> 00:21:26,868
And one night,
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00:21:27,536 --> 00:21:29,538
Jayne Mansfield
was in the audience.
363
00:21:30,539 --> 00:21:33,000
And after the show,
they met...
364
00:21:33,083 --> 00:21:35,502
[music softens, fades]
365
00:21:35,585 --> 00:21:37,879
...and that was
the beginning of...
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00:21:40,048 --> 00:21:41,717
a lovely time in their lives.
367
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:45,595
["More" by Bobby Darin playing]
368
00:21:48,932 --> 00:21:54,521
♪ More than the greatest love
the world has known... ♪
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00:21:55,230 --> 00:21:58,025
[Jayne Marie] It was love
at first sight with Mickey,
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00:21:58,108 --> 00:21:59,568
I think it really was.
371
00:22:01,153 --> 00:22:04,197
And he was just such a...
a nice man.
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00:22:04,781 --> 00:22:06,700
You could just see
that she was so happy.
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00:22:08,076 --> 00:22:10,078
♪ Longer than always ♪
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00:22:10,203 --> 00:22:14,249
♪ Is a long, long, long time ♪
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00:22:14,333 --> 00:22:17,294
♪ But far beyond forever ♪
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00:22:17,419 --> 00:22:20,422
♪ You'll be mine ♪
377
00:22:20,547 --> 00:22:24,259
♪ I know I never lived
before ♪
378
00:22:24,384 --> 00:22:27,429
♪ And my heart is very sure ♪
379
00:22:27,512 --> 00:22:30,432
♪ No one else ♪
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00:22:30,515 --> 00:22:34,770
♪ Could love you ♪
381
00:22:34,853 --> 00:22:37,481
♪ More ♪
382
00:22:39,316 --> 00:22:42,277
[song ends with flourish,
echoes]
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00:22:42,361 --> 00:22:44,529
[Jayne Marie] It was a big deal
when they got married.
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00:22:46,031 --> 00:22:47,240
Yeah, I was happy.
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00:22:49,785 --> 00:22:52,245
Things were already just
changing so much, you know.
386
00:22:54,373 --> 00:22:56,750
[dramatic piano melody playing]
387
00:22:56,833 --> 00:23:01,004
[airplane engine droning]
388
00:23:04,424 --> 00:23:06,593
[reporter 1] Jayne Mansfield
and Mickey Hargitay
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00:23:06,676 --> 00:23:10,430
have just left this
American Airlines plane.
390
00:23:11,473 --> 00:23:13,475
A huge crowd has gathered.
391
00:23:16,186 --> 00:23:19,398
[reporter 2]
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00:23:22,818 --> 00:23:24,945
[music intensifies]
393
00:23:25,654 --> 00:23:27,906
[reporter 3]
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00:23:31,326 --> 00:23:32,702
At the moment, she is also
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00:23:32,828 --> 00:23:34,746
the most photographed woman
in show business.
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00:23:37,541 --> 00:23:39,751
[interviewer]
Ms. Mansfield, in 1954,
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00:23:39,835 --> 00:23:41,128
not too many years ago,
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00:23:41,211 --> 00:23:43,588
you were selling candy
in a Hollywood theater.
399
00:23:44,172 --> 00:23:48,510
How do you account for
your meteoric rise to fame?
400
00:23:49,678 --> 00:23:53,014
[Jayne] Well, Joyce,
what I have done is this.
401
00:23:53,098 --> 00:23:55,517
I use my pinup-type publicity
402
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,520
to get my foot in the door,
so to speak,
403
00:23:58,603 --> 00:24:01,314
because it never
was really my ambition.
404
00:24:01,398 --> 00:24:03,275
[Davidson]
Do you like doing that?
405
00:24:03,358 --> 00:24:05,444
I use it as a means to an end.
[laughs]
406
00:24:05,527 --> 00:24:07,404
I don't know
if I should say I liked it.
407
00:24:07,529 --> 00:24:09,489
But I felt that it would do me
some good,
408
00:24:09,573 --> 00:24:12,534
being put into a position
where I could project myself
409
00:24:12,617 --> 00:24:14,578
to what I really wanted
to attain.
410
00:24:17,247 --> 00:24:19,499
[crowd cheering]
411
00:24:20,876 --> 00:24:23,587
This is Rita Marlowe,
star of stage, screen,
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00:24:23,712 --> 00:24:26,089
and now live television.
[squeals]
413
00:24:27,883 --> 00:24:29,885
I think it's
very, very bad taste.
414
00:24:30,010 --> 00:24:31,428
What's very bad taste?
415
00:24:31,553 --> 00:24:33,638
Telling your wife you love her
in front of me!
416
00:24:33,722 --> 00:24:36,808
[music builds]
417
00:24:36,892 --> 00:24:39,352
Jayne, how do you like it here
at Goose Air Base?
418
00:24:39,436 --> 00:24:42,397
Oh, I love it anywhere
there are men on the alert.
419
00:24:42,481 --> 00:24:44,316
- [laughter]
- [wolf whistle]
420
00:24:44,399 --> 00:24:45,525
She's not kidding either.
421
00:24:45,609 --> 00:24:47,819
The radar keeps going
ring-a-ding-ding.
422
00:24:47,903 --> 00:24:49,988
- [laughter]
- [applause]
423
00:24:50,071 --> 00:24:51,573
[flash bulbs snapping]
424
00:24:51,656 --> 00:24:54,409
[crowd whistling]
425
00:24:58,830 --> 00:25:00,957
[helicopters thrumming]
426
00:25:05,420 --> 00:25:07,589
[crowd cheering]
427
00:25:16,431 --> 00:25:18,141
[music ends abruptly, fades]
428
00:25:18,266 --> 00:25:19,684
[birds chirping]
429
00:25:26,358 --> 00:25:28,026
[interviewer]
I'm in the Beverly Hills home
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00:25:28,109 --> 00:25:30,779
of Jayne Mansfield and
her husband Mickey Hargitay.
431
00:25:30,862 --> 00:25:32,989
- Would you mind a little tour?
- Sure. Follow me, will you?
432
00:25:33,114 --> 00:25:35,492
- How about the living room?
- I'll show the living room.
433
00:25:36,493 --> 00:25:38,995
[interviewer] The plaque,
it's a painting of what?
434
00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:41,373
[Jayne] It's our crest.
J and M for Jayne and Mickey.
435
00:25:41,456 --> 00:25:43,708
[Mickey]
Glenn Holse painted this.
436
00:25:43,792 --> 00:25:45,877
[Jayne] Yes. He did the murals
on the piano as well,
437
00:25:45,961 --> 00:25:47,671
the cupids behind you.
438
00:25:47,796 --> 00:25:49,256
[interviewer] Now, you have
three children.
439
00:25:49,339 --> 00:25:51,716
- Yes. This is Mickey Jr.
- Hi, Mickey Jr.
440
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:53,134
Excuse me
for introducing him first.
441
00:25:53,218 --> 00:25:54,761
- Nice meeting you, sir.
- This is Jayne Marie,
442
00:25:54,844 --> 00:25:55,929
- our little daughter.
- Hi.
443
00:25:56,012 --> 00:25:57,138
Nice meeting you.
444
00:25:57,222 --> 00:25:59,641
That's our youngest son,
Zoltan Anthony.
445
00:25:59,724 --> 00:26:03,228
[bright, tender music playing]
446
00:26:07,899 --> 00:26:10,652
[Mariska] What do you remember
about that time?
447
00:26:11,778 --> 00:26:15,115
[Zoltan] I remember
her playing with us
448
00:26:15,198 --> 00:26:16,783
in the pool area.
449
00:26:16,866 --> 00:26:18,535
[projector clicks]
450
00:26:19,661 --> 00:26:20,954
It was a heart-shaped pool.
451
00:26:22,998 --> 00:26:25,083
And it was huge.
452
00:26:26,084 --> 00:26:27,377
[Mariska]
And that was normal to you.
453
00:26:27,502 --> 00:26:28,878
That was normal.
454
00:26:31,006 --> 00:26:33,425
We also had a lot of animals.
455
00:26:34,342 --> 00:26:36,303
She loved animals.
456
00:26:36,386 --> 00:26:37,887
Remember the ocelot?
There was an ocelot...
457
00:26:38,013 --> 00:26:39,264
- I don't.
- [Zoltan] ... in the back.
458
00:26:39,347 --> 00:26:40,932
It was in a big cage.
459
00:26:41,016 --> 00:26:42,392
We called it
the "jungle" back there.
460
00:26:44,227 --> 00:26:46,062
[Mariska]
So you had a zoo growing up.
461
00:26:46,187 --> 00:26:47,397
[Zoltan] We had a zoo.
462
00:26:47,522 --> 00:26:48,607
[Mariska] I say, "We had a zoo,"
463
00:26:48,690 --> 00:26:49,774
but I don't remember anything.
464
00:26:50,358 --> 00:26:51,484
Yeah.
465
00:26:51,568 --> 00:26:53,737
[music intensifies]
466
00:26:58,074 --> 00:27:00,994
[Mariska] God, I just...
I wonder what you felt
467
00:27:01,077 --> 00:27:02,621
seeing them so...
468
00:27:02,704 --> 00:27:04,789
Talk about larger than life.
469
00:27:12,047 --> 00:27:13,840
Did it ever get normalized?
470
00:27:14,633 --> 00:27:17,344
Marish, it's hard
because when you're a kid,
471
00:27:17,427 --> 00:27:19,054
you don't know anything else.
472
00:27:19,137 --> 00:27:21,473
There's no norm.
There's no... you know.
473
00:27:21,556 --> 00:27:22,807
- [Mariska] Yeah.
- You just,
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00:27:22,891 --> 00:27:25,060
"Okay, this is what it is.
475
00:27:25,185 --> 00:27:26,770
This is life. This is my life,"
476
00:27:26,895 --> 00:27:27,854
and that's all you know.
477
00:27:27,937 --> 00:27:29,731
[music softens]
478
00:27:31,650 --> 00:27:34,986
But I felt loved
and I felt safe.
479
00:27:36,237 --> 00:27:38,573
And that's what made
the biggest impression.
480
00:27:38,657 --> 00:27:42,327
[gentle, dreamy instrumentals
playing]
481
00:27:51,294 --> 00:27:53,838
[Zoltan] I remember her
coming in one time
482
00:27:53,922 --> 00:27:55,423
and she said good night.
483
00:27:58,343 --> 00:27:59,886
And, um...
484
00:28:00,970 --> 00:28:02,055
[Zoltan sniffles]
485
00:28:03,014 --> 00:28:05,392
...she came back
like ten minutes later...
486
00:28:05,475 --> 00:28:08,103
[snorts] ...she gave me
like, um,
487
00:28:08,186 --> 00:28:09,896
a beautiful hug.
488
00:28:11,439 --> 00:28:13,358
But I had my eye open,
489
00:28:13,441 --> 00:28:15,777
to where she-- I pretended
like I was asleep
490
00:28:15,860 --> 00:28:18,029
and then I fell asleep.
[sniffles]
491
00:28:18,113 --> 00:28:20,990
[somber chord resonates]
492
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:23,451
[Zoltan exhales softly]
493
00:28:24,369 --> 00:28:25,620
Yeah.
494
00:28:26,705 --> 00:28:28,373
[music fades]
495
00:28:30,458 --> 00:28:32,335
[birds chirping]
496
00:28:39,175 --> 00:28:40,719
- Oh, thanks.
- Yeah. For sure.
497
00:28:41,803 --> 00:28:43,972
No one believes
I'm as old as I am.
498
00:28:45,849 --> 00:28:47,600
I'll be 100 next year.
499
00:28:48,810 --> 00:28:51,604
[gentle, spirited music playing]
500
00:28:51,688 --> 00:28:54,149
So, do you go by Rusty or Ray?
501
00:28:54,232 --> 00:28:55,525
- Rusty.
- [Mariska] Rusty.
502
00:28:55,650 --> 00:28:56,818
Anything they call me,
503
00:28:56,901 --> 00:28:58,820
so long as they don't call me
late for dinner.
504
00:29:01,531 --> 00:29:03,575
[Mariska] And what year again
did you meet her?
505
00:29:03,658 --> 00:29:04,826
[Rusty] 1957.
506
00:29:05,869 --> 00:29:08,580
She hired me to help
with fan mail,
507
00:29:08,663 --> 00:29:10,832
but I eventually became
her press secretary.
508
00:29:12,167 --> 00:29:15,044
I'd do all the phone calls
and make appointments
509
00:29:15,170 --> 00:29:16,129
and that sort of thing.
510
00:29:16,212 --> 00:29:17,756
Set up publicity.
511
00:29:17,839 --> 00:29:19,549
You know what--
the publicity business.
512
00:29:21,342 --> 00:29:24,179
[crowd cheering, applauding]
513
00:29:24,262 --> 00:29:26,389
She was famous
for opening stores.
514
00:29:28,850 --> 00:29:30,310
But it was much more
than that.
515
00:29:31,895 --> 00:29:33,354
She was always on display.
516
00:29:35,190 --> 00:29:36,649
In front of fans.
517
00:29:37,442 --> 00:29:39,486
She said, "Never turn away
518
00:29:39,569 --> 00:29:40,987
somebody that wants an autograph
519
00:29:41,070 --> 00:29:43,740
because without them
there wouldn't be me."
520
00:29:45,617 --> 00:29:49,162
[interviewer]
521
00:29:56,044 --> 00:29:57,629
[Jayne]
522
00:30:10,558 --> 00:30:13,853
- [music intensifies]
- [flash bulbs snapping]
523
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,996
May I say, I'm sure
were he here tonight...
524
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,541
[crowd cheering, whistling]
525
00:30:34,624 --> 00:30:37,877
[flash bulbs snapping]
526
00:30:37,961 --> 00:30:39,546
[music further intensifies]
527
00:30:39,629 --> 00:30:42,715
[music ends abruptly, fades]
528
00:30:42,799 --> 00:30:44,968
[Mariska] So everything
that you were doing together
529
00:30:45,093 --> 00:30:46,553
was really working.
530
00:30:47,262 --> 00:30:48,555
[Rusty] Yeah. Oh, yeah.
531
00:30:50,014 --> 00:30:52,767
And I'll tell you,
she counted the paper clips.
532
00:30:52,851 --> 00:30:54,185
[Mariska] She was meticulous.
533
00:30:54,269 --> 00:30:55,770
[Rusty] Oh yes.
534
00:30:55,854 --> 00:30:57,522
"What happened to that one?
To this one?"
535
00:30:57,605 --> 00:30:59,524
- "I don't know!"
- She kept track of everything?
536
00:30:59,607 --> 00:31:00,733
She kept track of everything.
537
00:31:02,443 --> 00:31:05,655
[applause]
538
00:31:09,659 --> 00:31:11,077
[Groucho] Hello, Jayne.
539
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,289
I knew this before, when I did
that picture with you.
540
00:31:14,372 --> 00:31:16,207
Will Success
Spoil Rock Hunter?
541
00:31:16,291 --> 00:31:17,750
Yeah, that was
a pretty funny picture.
542
00:31:17,834 --> 00:31:19,878
You were the cutest
leading man I ever had yet.
543
00:31:19,961 --> 00:31:21,880
- And the oldest too, I think.
- [laughter]
544
00:31:21,963 --> 00:31:23,673
You know, you're actually,
545
00:31:23,798 --> 00:31:25,133
and I've told this
to other people,
546
00:31:25,216 --> 00:31:26,968
you're not the dumb blonde
that you pretend to be.
547
00:31:27,093 --> 00:31:28,887
And I think the people
ought to know
548
00:31:28,970 --> 00:31:31,347
that you're really
a bright, sentimental,
549
00:31:31,472 --> 00:31:33,266
and understanding person.
550
00:31:33,349 --> 00:31:34,350
Thank you.
551
00:31:34,475 --> 00:31:35,894
And this is a whole facade
of yours
552
00:31:35,977 --> 00:31:38,396
that isn't based on
what you actually are.
553
00:31:38,479 --> 00:31:40,857
Well, that's sweet of you.
Thank you so much.
554
00:31:40,982 --> 00:31:42,901
I think you're aware of that.
This is...
555
00:31:42,984 --> 00:31:45,528
This is a kind of an act
you do, isn't it?
556
00:31:45,653 --> 00:31:47,238
Oh, it's, uh...
557
00:31:47,322 --> 00:31:48,740
Most people
don't know that, though.
558
00:31:48,823 --> 00:31:50,867
I-I think that it's like this.
559
00:31:50,992 --> 00:31:54,787
The public pays money
at the box office
560
00:31:54,871 --> 00:31:57,707
to see me a certain way,
and, uh...
561
00:31:57,832 --> 00:31:59,667
And they get
their money's worth too.
562
00:31:59,751 --> 00:32:00,877
[laughter]
563
00:32:01,002 --> 00:32:02,879
So I think it's just
all part of the role
564
00:32:03,004 --> 00:32:04,923
- I'm playing as an actress.
- Uh-huh.
565
00:32:05,006 --> 00:32:07,133
[gentle, intriguing music
playing]
566
00:32:07,216 --> 00:32:09,469
[Mariska] Can you talk to me
about the role
567
00:32:09,552 --> 00:32:12,055
that she was playing,
the persona?
568
00:32:13,556 --> 00:32:15,516
Where do you think
that came from?
569
00:32:16,392 --> 00:32:17,852
[Rusty] That's what
the studios wanted.
570
00:32:20,188 --> 00:32:23,232
And so she sorta copied
Marilyn Monroe.
571
00:32:23,358 --> 00:32:26,277
That's me, right there
on the beach.
572
00:32:27,737 --> 00:32:30,281
My hair was a little longer
then. Did you notice?
573
00:32:30,365 --> 00:32:32,742
Oh, Rock Huntington!
574
00:32:32,867 --> 00:32:35,995
[squeals]
I know I'm oh-so-kissable,
575
00:32:36,079 --> 00:32:38,247
but why don't you pour
the champagne first,
576
00:32:38,373 --> 00:32:40,041
lover doll.
577
00:32:41,376 --> 00:32:44,671
[Mariska] So I have had
a very complicated relationship
578
00:32:44,754 --> 00:32:47,131
with that voice,
579
00:32:47,215 --> 00:32:49,592
because I didn't understand
what that voice was,
580
00:32:49,717 --> 00:32:51,260
and it used to upset me.
581
00:32:51,970 --> 00:32:54,180
I don't think Jayne liked it,
582
00:32:54,263 --> 00:32:56,391
but she... that's what got her
where she was,
583
00:32:56,474 --> 00:32:57,684
and so she was not gonna--
584
00:32:57,767 --> 00:32:59,602
You know,
you go where it gets you.
585
00:32:59,727 --> 00:33:01,145
What else do we have at home?
586
00:33:01,229 --> 00:33:03,481
Oh, we have an ocelot
587
00:33:03,564 --> 00:33:05,608
- and a myna bird.
- An ocelot?
588
00:33:05,733 --> 00:33:07,443
- One of those baby tigers?
- Yes.
589
00:33:08,111 --> 00:33:09,487
[imitating Jayne]
"I have an ocelot
590
00:33:09,570 --> 00:33:11,197
and a myna bird,
591
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,282
and we also have
an elephant and..."
592
00:33:13,408 --> 00:33:15,034
That's her.
593
00:33:15,118 --> 00:33:16,786
[Mariska] But she didn't
always talk like that.
594
00:33:16,911 --> 00:33:19,455
- That's a character, almost.
- Yeah.
595
00:33:19,580 --> 00:33:21,082
It's a character.
596
00:33:21,165 --> 00:33:22,834
- That's the character Jayne.
- Mm-hmm.
597
00:33:24,585 --> 00:33:27,005
[Mariska] Did she ever talk to
you about what she was doing?
598
00:33:28,423 --> 00:33:29,882
[Jayne Marie]
Well, we didn't discuss it.
599
00:33:29,966 --> 00:33:32,051
It was just... we lived it.
600
00:33:32,135 --> 00:33:33,511
[flash bulb snaps]
601
00:33:33,594 --> 00:33:37,348
But she didn't put on
those weird airs at home.
602
00:33:38,182 --> 00:33:40,643
She had her hair up in a scarf
and she'd sit in the sun
603
00:33:40,768 --> 00:33:43,896
and no makeup
or any of that stuff at home.
604
00:33:43,980 --> 00:33:46,983
And she was, you know,
just Jayne.
605
00:33:47,108 --> 00:33:49,485
[gentle, pensive music playing]
606
00:33:50,111 --> 00:33:52,321
She had a great sense of humor.
607
00:33:53,448 --> 00:33:55,658
We had intercoms
throughout the house,
608
00:33:55,783 --> 00:33:58,703
and whenever
I'd have a friend visit,
609
00:33:58,786 --> 00:34:00,246
she would yell through them
610
00:34:00,329 --> 00:34:03,458
and make these weird noises.
[laughs]
611
00:34:04,876 --> 00:34:06,961
But she was also
very eloquent.
612
00:34:07,712 --> 00:34:11,090
She spoke French, Italian,
Spanish, Hungarian.
613
00:34:12,300 --> 00:34:16,220
And she wanted us
to be exposed
614
00:34:16,971 --> 00:34:19,474
to more.
615
00:34:20,975 --> 00:34:23,394
So she took me
to Walter Reed hospital
616
00:34:23,478 --> 00:34:26,022
to go visit the soldiers
coming back from the war.
617
00:34:28,024 --> 00:34:30,359
She had such compassion
for them.
618
00:34:31,986 --> 00:34:36,574
And she wanted to show me
the other part of life.
619
00:34:36,657 --> 00:34:38,618
[solemn music playing]
620
00:34:39,869 --> 00:34:42,246
[Jayne]
621
00:35:08,022 --> 00:35:10,191
[Jayne Marie]
That wasn't a personality
622
00:35:10,274 --> 00:35:12,860
pretending to be
somebody else.
623
00:35:12,944 --> 00:35:14,445
That was her.
624
00:35:16,531 --> 00:35:18,908
[Mariska] I just wonder
how it made you feel
625
00:35:19,867 --> 00:35:21,994
knowing who she was
626
00:35:22,078 --> 00:35:25,623
and how different she sounded
in public.
627
00:35:25,706 --> 00:35:27,625
[music darkens]
628
00:35:27,708 --> 00:35:29,127
[Mickey Jr.]
It didn't feel natural.
629
00:35:29,210 --> 00:35:31,420
It didn't feel right to me.
630
00:35:31,546 --> 00:35:32,964
[crowd cheering]
631
00:35:33,047 --> 00:35:35,800
So I think I kind of looked
the other way
632
00:35:35,883 --> 00:35:38,636
when I heard the, you know,
the public voice,
633
00:35:40,221 --> 00:35:43,933
because I knew
she was really, really smart.
634
00:35:44,058 --> 00:35:46,769
[music fades]
635
00:35:46,894 --> 00:35:52,024
[Vivaldi's "Concerto No. 6
in A Minor" plays]
636
00:36:44,452 --> 00:36:46,662
- [music ends]
- [applause]
637
00:36:50,041 --> 00:36:52,126
My playing the violin
and now the piano
638
00:36:52,251 --> 00:36:53,753
may remind you of a famous story
639
00:36:53,836 --> 00:36:56,047
about Dr. Samuel Johnson.
640
00:36:56,130 --> 00:36:57,632
Once, when he saw a little puppy
641
00:36:57,715 --> 00:36:59,508
walking on its hind legs,
642
00:36:59,634 --> 00:37:02,053
he said, "It's not that you
expect him to do it perfectly,
643
00:37:02,136 --> 00:37:05,264
it's just that you're surprised
the puppy does it at all."
644
00:37:05,348 --> 00:37:07,683
Which just goes to prove
that I not only
645
00:37:07,808 --> 00:37:09,060
play the violin and the piano,
646
00:37:09,143 --> 00:37:12,480
but I also know
who Dr. Samuel Johnson is.
647
00:37:15,650 --> 00:37:20,696
[playing "Malagueña"]
648
00:37:44,929 --> 00:37:46,389
[song pauses]
649
00:37:46,514 --> 00:37:49,141
[song resumes]
650
00:37:50,893 --> 00:37:52,853
[interviewer] You gave her
singing and dancing lessons,
651
00:37:52,937 --> 00:37:54,188
I believe, Ms. Peers. Right?
652
00:37:54,313 --> 00:37:55,815
[Vera] Yes, I did, Ralph.
653
00:37:55,898 --> 00:37:58,276
And then as she grew older,
654
00:37:58,359 --> 00:38:01,654
she had piano
and violin lessons.
655
00:38:01,737 --> 00:38:06,659
And in fact, Philip Williams
from SMU taught Jaynie
656
00:38:06,742 --> 00:38:10,371
and he had hopes of seeing her
in Carnegie Hall.
657
00:38:10,454 --> 00:38:11,789
She was that gifted.
658
00:38:11,872 --> 00:38:15,251
[continues playing "Malagueña"]
659
00:38:28,639 --> 00:38:32,351
[ending note echoes, fades]
660
00:38:32,435 --> 00:38:35,187
[Mariska] Do you know
why piano and violin
661
00:38:35,271 --> 00:38:39,025
didn't play more of a role
in what she ended up doing?
662
00:38:40,568 --> 00:38:43,404
Oh, I don't know
'cause I can't speak for her.
663
00:38:45,740 --> 00:38:48,576
But I just know that her goal
664
00:38:48,659 --> 00:38:51,245
was that she wanted to be
a serious actress.
665
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,624
She did tell me that
from the beginning,
666
00:38:56,792 --> 00:38:58,210
and she did try.
667
00:38:59,670 --> 00:39:01,922
None of my business, but mind
if I tell you what I did
668
00:39:02,006 --> 00:39:03,799
to a guy I was
in love with once?
669
00:39:05,259 --> 00:39:06,552
Broke a chair over his head
670
00:39:06,635 --> 00:39:09,180
after I caught him kissing
some dame at a party.
671
00:39:09,263 --> 00:39:12,266
[gentle, dramatic music playing]
672
00:39:12,350 --> 00:39:14,226
Bet he never tried that again.
673
00:39:15,102 --> 00:39:17,438
Don't know.
Never saw him after that.
674
00:39:18,481 --> 00:39:21,359
But he's married.
Happily married.
675
00:39:23,110 --> 00:39:24,695
And I make a living.
676
00:39:26,530 --> 00:39:28,699
Believe me, breaking a chair
over a guy's head
677
00:39:28,783 --> 00:39:30,534
can sure work miracles.
678
00:39:31,452 --> 00:39:35,247
The kind of miracles
that louse up your whole life.
679
00:39:36,540 --> 00:39:38,834
[solemn, tense music playing]
680
00:39:38,959 --> 00:39:41,670
[Mariska] Why didn't she do
more of those roles?
681
00:39:43,506 --> 00:39:45,883
Because the parts
didn't come in.
682
00:39:47,968 --> 00:39:49,929
So she did what she had to do.
683
00:39:55,393 --> 00:39:57,144
[projector clicking]
684
00:39:57,228 --> 00:39:58,813
[reporter 1]
Marilyn Monroe played out
685
00:39:58,896 --> 00:40:00,439
her wonderful tragic life
686
00:40:00,523 --> 00:40:02,900
to a dramatic end at 36.
687
00:40:03,818 --> 00:40:06,320
Her famous body is wheeled
from her Hollywood home
688
00:40:06,404 --> 00:40:08,114
where she was found
beside an empty bottle
689
00:40:08,197 --> 00:40:09,323
of sleeping pills.
690
00:40:10,116 --> 00:40:11,742
[reporter 2] The sex symbol
she enjoyed being,
691
00:40:11,826 --> 00:40:14,203
the dumb blonde
she certainly wasn't,
692
00:40:14,328 --> 00:40:16,288
the actress
with an underestimated ambition
693
00:40:16,372 --> 00:40:17,665
to act.
694
00:40:22,378 --> 00:40:24,797
[Jayne Marie] Mom had
great admiration for Marilyn,
695
00:40:26,882 --> 00:40:29,718
but I think she realized
696
00:40:29,844 --> 00:40:34,640
that whole blonde persona
was a box.
697
00:40:36,892 --> 00:40:41,272
And around that time,
she did tell me
698
00:40:41,355 --> 00:40:44,358
she wanted to reverse
that image.
699
00:40:47,570 --> 00:40:51,365
[interviewer]
700
00:40:52,283 --> 00:40:55,578
Yes. I... I don't like
to be asked too much
701
00:40:55,703 --> 00:40:57,580
about my measurements
702
00:40:57,705 --> 00:41:00,249
because people have asked me
about that before
703
00:41:00,374 --> 00:41:02,793
and I don't like
to be asked that.
704
00:41:02,877 --> 00:41:06,547
I feel that my figure
has been publicized
705
00:41:06,630 --> 00:41:09,091
much more than my intellect,
706
00:41:09,216 --> 00:41:11,051
and I would like to change that.
707
00:41:11,135 --> 00:41:15,473
[music intensifies]
708
00:41:17,099 --> 00:41:19,894
[host] Jayne, you are another
beautiful but dumb blonde.
709
00:41:19,977 --> 00:41:22,313
You are a publicity seeker.
710
00:41:22,396 --> 00:41:25,608
How do you feel
about such images?
711
00:41:25,733 --> 00:41:27,860
Well, they're not accurate.
712
00:41:27,943 --> 00:41:29,069
In the very beginning,
713
00:41:29,153 --> 00:41:31,113
I was quite cooperative
publicity-wise,
714
00:41:31,739 --> 00:41:34,033
but lately
I haven't been able to
715
00:41:34,116 --> 00:41:35,701
because of the momentum
716
00:41:35,784 --> 00:41:39,079
in which my career
is moving at this time.
717
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,001
[music fades]
718
00:41:44,084 --> 00:41:46,045
Jayne, we just talked informally
719
00:41:46,128 --> 00:41:48,297
without rehearsal.
But, um, I'm concerned.
720
00:41:48,422 --> 00:41:50,341
You know,
not seriously concerned.
721
00:41:50,424 --> 00:41:52,051
But what is this
new Jayne Mansfield thing?
722
00:41:52,134 --> 00:41:53,219
Well, I mean, why?
723
00:41:53,302 --> 00:41:54,345
- Well...
- Are you serious?
724
00:41:54,428 --> 00:41:55,721
Yes, I am quite serious.
725
00:41:55,804 --> 00:41:57,973
I have been very fortunate
726
00:41:58,098 --> 00:42:00,893
in being exposed
as a glamor girl
727
00:42:00,976 --> 00:42:01,977
for quite a few years.
728
00:42:02,102 --> 00:42:03,437
[Paar] Yes, I'd say that.
729
00:42:03,521 --> 00:42:05,064
And...
730
00:42:05,147 --> 00:42:06,857
[laughter]
731
00:42:06,941 --> 00:42:08,817
Dear me. I'm sorry.
732
00:42:08,943 --> 00:42:10,236
There goes my new image.
733
00:42:10,319 --> 00:42:11,946
[laughter]
734
00:42:12,029 --> 00:42:13,155
No, but how can you change?
735
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:14,532
It's like trying to hide
a parachute.
736
00:42:14,615 --> 00:42:15,991
You know, I mean...
737
00:42:16,116 --> 00:42:19,662
- [laughter]
- [scattered applause]
738
00:42:19,787 --> 00:42:21,080
Well, you did all right.
739
00:42:21,163 --> 00:42:22,831
There's a point at which
you don't go beyond...
740
00:42:22,957 --> 00:42:24,375
Well, I think
that's the situation.
741
00:42:24,458 --> 00:42:26,293
I think that it has been done
742
00:42:26,418 --> 00:42:28,254
and I'm ready to be myself now.
743
00:42:28,337 --> 00:42:30,297
I've been someone else
for a few years
744
00:42:30,381 --> 00:42:31,882
and I'm ready to be myself.
745
00:42:32,967 --> 00:42:34,635
[Paar] You're serious
about this violin?
746
00:42:34,718 --> 00:42:37,429
I'll play a couple of bars
for you, okay?
747
00:42:38,806 --> 00:42:39,974
Are you a good player?
748
00:42:40,057 --> 00:42:41,559
I play.
749
00:42:41,642 --> 00:42:44,311
[laughter]
750
00:42:44,395 --> 00:42:45,813
[shrill notes resonate]
751
00:42:45,896 --> 00:42:47,273
I think it has to be loosened.
752
00:42:47,356 --> 00:42:48,816
My bow is too tight.
753
00:42:48,899 --> 00:42:50,734
[laughter]
754
00:42:50,818 --> 00:42:52,778
- I would say that it is.
- What was funny about that?
755
00:42:52,861 --> 00:42:54,697
Well, don't press your luck.
756
00:42:54,822 --> 00:42:57,700
[laughter]
757
00:42:57,825 --> 00:43:00,286
[plays hesitant warm-up]
758
00:43:00,369 --> 00:43:05,624
[plays "Concerto No. 6
in A Minor"]
759
00:43:08,377 --> 00:43:09,712
[Paar] Who cares? Kiss me.
760
00:43:09,837 --> 00:43:11,839
[laughter]
761
00:43:11,922 --> 00:43:14,425
[applause]
762
00:43:14,508 --> 00:43:16,552
We'll be back soon,
but first we have a message
763
00:43:16,677 --> 00:43:18,429
from Mogen David wine.
764
00:43:18,512 --> 00:43:20,514
[applause echoes, fades]
765
00:43:28,772 --> 00:43:33,444
[gentle, pensive piano melody
playing]
766
00:43:33,527 --> 00:43:36,405
[Mariska] Maybe even more
than her acting,
767
00:43:36,530 --> 00:43:40,284
her music is this symbol to me
768
00:43:40,367 --> 00:43:43,412
of the Jayne that I've been
aching to know.
769
00:43:45,873 --> 00:43:49,043
So a few years ago,
I tracked down a violin
770
00:43:49,126 --> 00:43:51,170
that I thought was hers.
771
00:43:52,546 --> 00:43:55,090
And it turned out
that it probably wasn't.
772
00:43:58,260 --> 00:44:00,596
But I also reached out
to the person
773
00:44:00,721 --> 00:44:04,892
who bought my mom's house
ten years after she died,
774
00:44:04,975 --> 00:44:08,062
the singer-songwriter
Engelbert Humperdinck.
775
00:44:09,897 --> 00:44:11,982
He sold the house in 2002,
776
00:44:12,066 --> 00:44:13,817
and after that
it was demolished.
777
00:44:15,069 --> 00:44:19,531
But he kept some things,
including my mom's piano,
778
00:44:20,991 --> 00:44:22,951
and I've been hoping for years
779
00:44:23,077 --> 00:44:25,537
that he'd be willing
to part with it.
780
00:44:27,081 --> 00:44:29,208
[phone ringing]
781
00:44:29,750 --> 00:44:31,543
[Mariska]
Hi, John. It's Mariska.
782
00:44:31,627 --> 00:44:33,837
[John]
783
00:44:33,921 --> 00:44:35,881
[Mariska] Are you still
friends with Louise?
784
00:44:35,964 --> 00:44:37,007
[John]
785
00:44:37,091 --> 00:44:38,676
[Mariska]
She had shared with me
786
00:44:38,759 --> 00:44:42,346
that Engelbert
wanted to sell the piano,
787
00:44:42,429 --> 00:44:45,974
and then I just haven't heard
from her in a month.
788
00:44:46,100 --> 00:44:48,227
[John]
789
00:44:48,310 --> 00:44:50,145
Oh, John, that'd be so amazing.
790
00:44:50,270 --> 00:44:51,689
Thank you so much.
791
00:44:51,772 --> 00:44:54,775
[solemn, tender instrumentals
playing]
792
00:44:57,486 --> 00:45:00,489
I mean, I think the thing
that I keep coming back to is,
793
00:45:01,323 --> 00:45:04,785
do you think that she could
have done it a different way?
794
00:45:06,704 --> 00:45:08,080
[Jayne Marie]
She was a 21-year-old kid
795
00:45:08,163 --> 00:45:09,665
when she started,
796
00:45:10,958 --> 00:45:13,752
and she was being molded
by everybody around her.
797
00:45:13,836 --> 00:45:17,131
And, unfortunately, she had
the wrong people around her.
798
00:45:19,133 --> 00:45:20,843
Except for Mickey.
799
00:45:24,388 --> 00:45:25,806
[Mariska]
So I have a question for you.
800
00:45:25,889 --> 00:45:27,474
[Jayne Marie] Mm-hmm.
801
00:45:28,308 --> 00:45:29,768
[Mariska] When I was
going through photos
802
00:45:29,852 --> 00:45:31,145
that I found
in the storage unit...
803
00:45:32,479 --> 00:45:33,647
I found this.
804
00:45:36,191 --> 00:45:37,568
[Jayne Marie] Uh-huh.
805
00:45:39,153 --> 00:45:41,071
[Mariska]
I found all these pictures.
806
00:45:45,033 --> 00:45:46,118
[Jayne Marie] It's Mickey.
807
00:45:48,162 --> 00:45:49,663
I remember going in there
808
00:45:49,747 --> 00:45:52,166
and seeing her
cutting up pictures.
809
00:45:52,249 --> 00:45:54,168
[Mariska] Did she say why?
810
00:45:54,251 --> 00:45:55,586
I don't remember.
811
00:45:55,669 --> 00:45:58,005
If she was in a bad mood,
I kept my distance.
812
00:46:00,340 --> 00:46:02,342
I'm so curious
about what happened.
813
00:46:14,855 --> 00:46:18,066
I'm wondering when things
got difficult for them.
814
00:46:19,067 --> 00:46:20,569
Do you know what was going on?
815
00:46:23,197 --> 00:46:25,574
[Ellen] I know they were
having disagreements
816
00:46:25,699 --> 00:46:27,910
about how they
were raising the children.
817
00:46:30,370 --> 00:46:34,082
But also, her career
wasn't going well.
818
00:46:34,208 --> 00:46:36,919
[dramatic, persistent
instrumentals playing]
819
00:46:38,712 --> 00:46:41,548
So she went back to
these parts for dumb blondes.
820
00:46:47,638 --> 00:46:49,640
I don't think it was easy
for her.
821
00:46:50,641 --> 00:46:53,977
But I don't think it was easy
for Mickey either.
822
00:46:55,312 --> 00:46:58,273
She was completely absorbed
in negativity.
823
00:46:59,775 --> 00:47:01,902
Because she wasn't doing
the kind of work
824
00:47:01,985 --> 00:47:03,862
that she dreamed of doing.
825
00:47:05,447 --> 00:47:09,743
And I believe she became
a victim of...
826
00:47:10,953 --> 00:47:12,496
depression.
827
00:47:14,665 --> 00:47:17,543
You're never yourself
when you're depressed.
828
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,923
But Mickey said that
it just started to get
829
00:47:23,590 --> 00:47:24,967
to be really difficult
830
00:47:26,260 --> 00:47:27,594
because Jayne...
831
00:47:28,762 --> 00:47:31,431
Jayne... Jayne really liked
to be out there.
832
00:47:32,266 --> 00:47:34,309
She liked to be out there.
833
00:47:34,434 --> 00:47:35,894
And she met other people.
834
00:47:35,978 --> 00:47:40,858
She met other men, you know,
and the marriage fell apart.
835
00:47:44,111 --> 00:47:48,115
I think that Mickey
was hurt deeply by Jayne.
836
00:47:49,825 --> 00:47:51,285
I think she...
837
00:47:53,287 --> 00:47:56,039
I think she blew it
when she divorced Mickey.
838
00:47:58,959 --> 00:48:01,837
Mickey was the most positive
influence in her life.
839
00:48:03,797 --> 00:48:07,259
And even though he might've
felt a lot of pain,
840
00:48:08,635 --> 00:48:09,803
he loved her.
841
00:48:10,679 --> 00:48:12,389
He always loved her
842
00:48:12,973 --> 00:48:14,766
even after they were divorced.
843
00:48:17,060 --> 00:48:19,229
[Mariska] And what happened
after they got divorced?
844
00:48:21,565 --> 00:48:23,525
[Ellen]
She did come back to Mickey
845
00:48:23,650 --> 00:48:24,943
many times after that.
846
00:48:26,737 --> 00:48:31,491
And they were together again
for a few months
847
00:48:31,575 --> 00:48:33,994
around the time Jayne
was pregnant with you.
848
00:48:36,246 --> 00:48:38,081
[music fades]
849
00:48:38,165 --> 00:48:41,084
[water trickling]
850
00:48:44,796 --> 00:48:47,090
[interviewer] Jayne and Mickey,
welcome to California.
851
00:48:47,174 --> 00:48:48,926
How does it feel to be home?
852
00:48:50,218 --> 00:48:53,263
[Mickey]
Well... feels wonderful.
853
00:48:53,347 --> 00:48:55,223
It's just great. It really is.
854
00:48:55,349 --> 00:48:58,352
I haven't been home myself
since last March.
855
00:48:58,435 --> 00:49:01,229
I've been in every place
in the world, I guess.
856
00:49:01,355 --> 00:49:03,482
I just finished a picture
called Dog Eat Dog
857
00:49:03,565 --> 00:49:05,192
in Yugoslavia and Rome.
858
00:49:05,275 --> 00:49:07,778
And now we're back here
for Mickey to continue
859
00:49:07,861 --> 00:49:09,696
on his television work
860
00:49:10,447 --> 00:49:12,157
and to have a baby. [laughs]
861
00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:14,242
- That's right.
- In January,
862
00:49:14,368 --> 00:49:15,494
or the end of December,
863
00:49:15,577 --> 00:49:17,788
we're having our fourth child.
864
00:49:18,705 --> 00:49:21,124
[crackling, buzzing]
865
00:49:21,208 --> 00:49:24,962
[gentle, solemn music playing]
866
00:49:29,549 --> 00:49:31,551
[Mariska] I'm baby number four.
867
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:35,639
And by the time I came along,
868
00:49:36,723 --> 00:49:39,726
I think
there was a lot going on.
869
00:49:43,730 --> 00:49:45,649
And so there's a sense to me,
870
00:49:45,732 --> 00:49:47,693
in some of the photos,
871
00:49:48,902 --> 00:49:51,571
it just seemed like
she wasn't holding me a lot.
872
00:49:53,907 --> 00:49:55,993
Like she was off
doing something else
873
00:49:57,661 --> 00:49:59,162
and I just had to handle it.
874
00:50:00,914 --> 00:50:04,751
So I don't know if I had
that attachment time with her.
875
00:50:07,004 --> 00:50:08,380
I don't know if I had that.
876
00:50:12,759 --> 00:50:15,220
[solemn music continues]
877
00:50:32,988 --> 00:50:34,698
[music softens]
878
00:50:38,702 --> 00:50:42,873
[dramatic, pensive
instrumentals playing]
879
00:50:44,458 --> 00:50:45,834
[Jayne]
880
00:50:46,626 --> 00:50:48,253
[interviewer]
881
00:50:49,629 --> 00:50:50,964
[Jayne]
882
00:50:54,843 --> 00:50:56,678
[interviewer] The Maria.
883
00:50:56,803 --> 00:50:59,181
[dramatic music continues]
884
00:51:03,810 --> 00:51:05,896
[Mariska] Can I ask you
a question about my name?
885
00:51:05,979 --> 00:51:07,564
- [Zoltan] Yeah.
- On my birth certificate
886
00:51:07,647 --> 00:51:10,317
everywhere it says
"Mariska Magdolna."
887
00:51:10,442 --> 00:51:11,902
- [Zoltan] Yeah.
- [Mariska] Right?
888
00:51:11,985 --> 00:51:14,780
But then you guys
called me Maria.
889
00:51:14,863 --> 00:51:16,364
[Zoltan] That's right.
890
00:51:17,365 --> 00:51:19,451
Your name was Maria
in the beginning.
891
00:51:19,534 --> 00:51:21,161
- [Mariska] Always Maria?
- Yeah.
892
00:51:21,244 --> 00:51:22,662
- In the beginning.
- [Mariska] Uh-huh.
893
00:51:22,788 --> 00:51:24,956
On The Merv Griffin Show,
she calls me Maria.
894
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,751
- Yeah.
- What's your name, darling?
895
00:51:29,211 --> 00:51:31,421
- See, when I talk to the--
- [Griffin] Maureen?
896
00:51:31,505 --> 00:51:32,672
This is Maria.
897
00:51:36,343 --> 00:51:39,304
[Rusty] She had a real thing
about your name.
898
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:42,224
We were somewhere
899
00:51:42,349 --> 00:51:45,102
and the press
was interviewing her
900
00:51:45,185 --> 00:51:47,813
and the reporter said, um,
901
00:51:48,396 --> 00:51:50,482
"Well, how's little Mariska?"
902
00:51:50,565 --> 00:51:52,776
Jayne says, "Her name is Maria.
903
00:51:52,859 --> 00:51:56,530
I'll spell it for you.
M-A-R-I-A. Maria."
904
00:51:58,865 --> 00:52:00,325
[music fades]
905
00:52:00,408 --> 00:52:02,285
You know, you mentioned
that my husband
906
00:52:02,369 --> 00:52:03,453
was going to come on.
907
00:52:03,537 --> 00:52:04,955
He just stepped out
for a minute.
908
00:52:05,038 --> 00:52:07,124
Maybe he's back now.
Think we could beckon him?
909
00:52:07,207 --> 00:52:09,000
- Matt!
- [laughs]
910
00:52:09,084 --> 00:52:10,836
Might as well bring the gang on.
911
00:52:10,919 --> 00:52:12,129
Matt Cimber!
912
00:52:12,212 --> 00:52:13,588
[cheery tune plays]
913
00:52:13,713 --> 00:52:15,423
- Hello, Matt.
- Hi.
914
00:52:15,549 --> 00:52:18,343
[indistinct conversation]
915
00:52:18,426 --> 00:52:19,678
You know him.
916
00:52:20,720 --> 00:52:22,389
Ms. Jayne Mansfield.
917
00:52:22,472 --> 00:52:24,641
I know you. How are you?
918
00:52:26,393 --> 00:52:29,938
I remember him
coming into our life
919
00:52:31,148 --> 00:52:34,776
and mostly it being like,
you know, devastating,
920
00:52:34,901 --> 00:52:36,194
that like, "Where's my dad?"
921
00:52:38,405 --> 00:52:40,574
And then all of a sudden
we became Italian.
922
00:52:40,699 --> 00:52:42,159
[laughs] And it was like,
923
00:52:42,242 --> 00:52:45,120
"You call me 'Mama'
and you call him 'Papa.'"
924
00:52:45,245 --> 00:52:47,664
And I'm like, what the fuck?
It's like...
925
00:52:47,747 --> 00:52:49,374
- [Mariska] Oh, really?
- It was weird. Yeah.
926
00:52:51,418 --> 00:52:53,628
[Mickey Jr.]
And then, the family life
927
00:52:53,753 --> 00:52:56,173
started getting
really sketchy.
928
00:52:57,757 --> 00:53:00,051
They fought like wildcats.
Always fighting.
929
00:53:02,762 --> 00:53:04,306
Matt had a bad temper,
930
00:53:05,098 --> 00:53:07,184
but Jayne would never admit
931
00:53:07,267 --> 00:53:08,643
if somebody
had the better of her.
932
00:53:08,768 --> 00:53:10,687
She'd say,
"Oh, everything's all right."
933
00:53:11,771 --> 00:53:12,981
I ask her about it.
934
00:53:13,106 --> 00:53:16,610
"Oh, we-we have our battles.
We're alright."
935
00:53:20,238 --> 00:53:23,950
But, you know,
she would have bruises.
936
00:53:25,785 --> 00:53:27,621
[Mariska] Why do you think
she married him?
937
00:53:27,704 --> 00:53:30,165
Because he was a director.
938
00:53:30,290 --> 00:53:32,876
[applause, cheering]
939
00:53:32,959 --> 00:53:36,630
But it didn't do anything
for her career.
940
00:53:40,467 --> 00:53:43,386
Things were changing for her
in the '60s,
941
00:53:45,347 --> 00:53:49,100
and so she had to turn
to doing nightclubs.
942
00:53:49,184 --> 00:53:53,605
[scattered applause]
943
00:53:53,688 --> 00:53:56,566
[interviewer]
944
00:53:57,317 --> 00:53:59,110
I sing, do a little dancing,
945
00:53:59,194 --> 00:54:01,238
tell some jokes,
have a lot of fun generally.
946
00:54:02,864 --> 00:54:05,450
[Jayne]
947
00:54:12,832 --> 00:54:16,044
[applause and cheering continue]
948
00:54:18,171 --> 00:54:19,756
[music softens]
949
00:54:19,839 --> 00:54:23,051
[Ellen] At that time,
alcohol came in.
950
00:54:25,387 --> 00:54:28,306
And so did pills.
951
00:54:29,015 --> 00:54:31,685
And so I would
take it upon myself
952
00:54:31,768 --> 00:54:35,522
to hide the bourbon
and-and, uh...
953
00:54:37,065 --> 00:54:40,151
empty the pills out,
that kind of thing.
954
00:54:41,528 --> 00:54:44,531
So, I was a caretaker.
955
00:54:47,784 --> 00:54:51,454
I think Matt was the worst thing
that ever happened to her.
956
00:54:54,416 --> 00:54:56,793
The only thing good came out
of that was Tony.
957
00:54:56,876 --> 00:55:00,672
[reporters clamoring]
958
00:55:00,755 --> 00:55:02,966
[flash bulb snaps, echoes]
959
00:55:03,049 --> 00:55:05,760
[host] Now the introduction
of a new baby
960
00:55:05,885 --> 00:55:08,680
whose mother
is star Jayne Mansfield.
961
00:55:08,763 --> 00:55:10,598
Well, that's something special.
962
00:55:10,724 --> 00:55:12,559
So let's go Hollywood Backstage
963
00:55:12,642 --> 00:55:14,436
and meet this bright
new addition.
964
00:55:15,562 --> 00:55:17,647
[gentle ambient instrumentals
playing]
965
00:55:17,731 --> 00:55:22,068
[Tony] My father, Matt,
never really talked about her.
966
00:55:24,070 --> 00:55:26,531
I guess that's kind of
unfortunate
967
00:55:26,614 --> 00:55:30,660
because I never asked,
and I don't know why.
968
00:55:31,828 --> 00:55:34,497
[Mariska]
But your dad and our mother,
969
00:55:35,665 --> 00:55:38,793
there are things that
I've heard that I'm always...
970
00:55:40,170 --> 00:55:43,089
fearful to bring up with you.
971
00:55:43,173 --> 00:55:44,841
I know.
972
00:55:44,924 --> 00:55:47,218
Things that are,
um, really ugly.
973
00:55:47,802 --> 00:55:48,845
Yes.
974
00:55:50,263 --> 00:55:52,390
- About their relationship.
- And I'm sure.
975
00:55:52,474 --> 00:55:53,516
And I'm sure.
976
00:55:55,769 --> 00:55:57,103
But...
977
00:55:58,104 --> 00:56:00,607
I don't know those ugly things.
978
00:56:00,690 --> 00:56:03,318
I don't know
that I want to know.
979
00:56:04,569 --> 00:56:08,448
Because I don't want to carry it
980
00:56:10,533 --> 00:56:12,827
because I don't know
what good it does.
981
00:56:12,952 --> 00:56:17,123
[gentle, hesitant notes
resonate]
982
00:56:17,207 --> 00:56:21,461
[music intensifies suddenly,
turns dramatic]
983
00:56:40,063 --> 00:56:42,565
[microfiche reader crackling]
984
00:56:47,654 --> 00:56:51,282
[Mariska] "April 11th, 1936.
985
00:56:51,991 --> 00:56:56,329
Herbert W. Palmer, 32,
Phillipsburg lawyer
986
00:56:56,413 --> 00:56:59,249
and a native
of Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania,
987
00:56:59,332 --> 00:57:01,876
died suddenly
in his automobile
988
00:57:02,001 --> 00:57:05,422
while driving up the Morris
street hill, Phillipsburg,
989
00:57:05,505 --> 00:57:07,215
on Saturday evening.
990
00:57:08,842 --> 00:57:12,345
While driving up the hill,
he collapsed.
991
00:57:12,429 --> 00:57:14,639
His wife stopped the car
at once.
992
00:57:15,723 --> 00:57:18,893
The physician pronounced
Mr. Palmer dead,
993
00:57:19,018 --> 00:57:20,437
victim of a heart attack.
994
00:57:22,021 --> 00:57:25,108
He's survived by his wife,
Mrs. Vera Palmer,
995
00:57:26,025 --> 00:57:29,195
and a daughter, Vera Jayne."
996
00:57:29,279 --> 00:57:34,909
[gentle, solemn instrumentals
playing]
997
00:57:37,287 --> 00:57:39,372
I think that's
where I start now,
998
00:57:40,248 --> 00:57:42,792
is looking, that here
is our mother,
999
00:57:44,252 --> 00:57:47,172
this little girl
whose father died
1000
00:57:47,255 --> 00:57:50,008
when she was three years old
1001
00:57:51,092 --> 00:57:53,219
and she was in the car
with him.
1002
00:57:56,389 --> 00:57:58,516
We start there with Jayne.
1003
00:57:59,309 --> 00:58:01,686
We start there with loss.
1004
00:58:03,062 --> 00:58:04,564
And I go,
1005
00:58:04,647 --> 00:58:06,733
- "I know that one."
- [echoed] "I know that one."
1006
00:58:09,235 --> 00:58:13,239
[Mariska] So did she talk to you
about her childhood at all?
1007
00:58:15,283 --> 00:58:17,285
[Jayne Marie] She never told me
about her childhood.
1008
00:58:19,913 --> 00:58:22,999
But I do know losing her dad,
1009
00:58:24,459 --> 00:58:26,669
that's something she carried
around with her
1010
00:58:26,753 --> 00:58:28,379
her whole life.
1011
00:58:28,463 --> 00:58:31,299
I mean, I caught her crying
looking at his picture
1012
00:58:31,424 --> 00:58:32,717
several times.
1013
00:58:35,178 --> 00:58:37,305
[Rusty] People don't know
the whole story.
1014
00:58:37,430 --> 00:58:39,766
They only know what they see.
1015
00:58:41,643 --> 00:58:45,063
She didn't always make
good choices with men.
1016
00:58:46,439 --> 00:58:49,442
But you know something,
I think...
1017
00:58:50,318 --> 00:58:53,112
her miseries all stem back
to when her father died.
1018
00:58:55,031 --> 00:58:57,700
She spent the rest of her life
looking for her father,
1019
00:58:57,784 --> 00:58:59,619
being a young girl
looking for her father.
1020
00:59:00,620 --> 00:59:03,331
- [reporters clamoring]
- [camera shutter snapping]
1021
00:59:03,456 --> 00:59:06,251
[gentle, solemn music playing]
1022
00:59:06,334 --> 00:59:08,836
[Ellen] So in 1966,
1023
00:59:09,837 --> 00:59:14,342
Jayne finally wanted to get
a divorce from Matt Cimber.
1024
00:59:17,053 --> 00:59:19,639
And during that time,
1025
00:59:20,306 --> 00:59:23,393
she started dating
her divorce attorney,
1026
00:59:23,977 --> 00:59:26,062
this guy named Sam Brody.
1027
00:59:26,145 --> 00:59:28,898
[music darkens]
1028
00:59:31,484 --> 00:59:33,486
[Mickey Jr.]
I didn't like him at all.
1029
00:59:33,570 --> 00:59:34,946
There was a lot of fighting.
1030
00:59:37,365 --> 00:59:41,202
I remember one time going
into Mom's room in the morning
1031
00:59:41,327 --> 00:59:44,539
and I remember
her wearing sunglasses,
1032
00:59:44,664 --> 00:59:46,749
and I was like, you know,
1033
00:59:46,833 --> 00:59:49,877
taken aback by that,
you know, a little boy,
1034
00:59:50,003 --> 00:59:52,880
why would your mom
be wearing sunglasses?
1035
00:59:53,006 --> 00:59:55,341
But then at some point,
she took 'em off
1036
00:59:55,425 --> 00:59:59,554
and she had black eyes,
and I remember that hurt.
1037
01:00:03,391 --> 01:00:04,809
I knew he was a bad man.
1038
01:00:04,892 --> 01:00:07,270
I knew, you know, right away.
1039
01:00:10,398 --> 01:00:12,275
[Mickey] It was, um...
1040
01:00:12,358 --> 01:00:14,694
She felt she don't have much,
1041
01:00:16,362 --> 01:00:18,031
but, uh...
1042
01:00:20,074 --> 01:00:22,035
she don't realize one thing,
1043
01:00:22,118 --> 01:00:23,953
that she had herself.
1044
01:00:25,788 --> 01:00:28,291
And when a person
loses themselves,
1045
01:00:29,417 --> 01:00:32,378
you know, you lose everything.
1046
01:00:35,048 --> 01:00:37,967
And I tried to tell her that,
"You have you.
1047
01:00:38,051 --> 01:00:39,844
That is
the most important thing."
1048
01:00:41,554 --> 01:00:42,680
Because she always had me.
1049
01:00:42,764 --> 01:00:44,390
She knew that.
1050
01:00:44,474 --> 01:00:46,976
But seems like, at times,
it wasn't enough.
1051
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:55,401
[Ellen]
There was one night in 1967,
1052
01:00:55,485 --> 01:00:58,071
Jayne was in New York
with Sam Brody
1053
01:00:59,072 --> 01:01:02,575
and she called Mickey
to come into the city.
1054
01:01:04,285 --> 01:01:07,330
At that time, Mickey and I
were already dating.
1055
01:01:08,498 --> 01:01:10,625
So, we went together.
1056
01:01:12,460 --> 01:01:15,296
And she was all roughed up
or something,
1057
01:01:15,421 --> 01:01:17,382
but she was not herself.
1058
01:01:18,841 --> 01:01:21,594
So she and Mickey
went out to dinner,
1059
01:01:21,678 --> 01:01:24,972
because he was trying
to help her with Sam.
1060
01:01:27,266 --> 01:01:30,186
And then two weeks later,
1061
01:01:30,269 --> 01:01:32,146
she went to Biloxi, Mississippi,
1062
01:01:32,271 --> 01:01:33,898
to do a show.
1063
01:01:35,191 --> 01:01:37,026
And at midnight
1064
01:01:37,110 --> 01:01:39,237
they were scheduled
to go to New Orleans.
1065
01:01:40,947 --> 01:01:44,492
You, Mickey, and Zolie
were in the car with Jayne,
1066
01:01:44,617 --> 01:01:47,620
the driver, and Sam Brody.
1067
01:01:47,704 --> 01:01:49,872
[music fades quickly]
1068
01:01:49,956 --> 01:01:51,708
And that's when it happened.
1069
01:01:51,791 --> 01:01:55,378
[prolonged silence]
1070
01:02:01,008 --> 01:02:02,760
[tearfully]
I wanna say something
1071
01:02:02,844 --> 01:02:04,262
but I'm not gonna talk about it
1072
01:02:04,345 --> 01:02:07,223
'cause it was the last minutes
of her life. [sniffles]
1073
01:02:09,183 --> 01:02:10,852
Just so deep.
1074
01:02:18,568 --> 01:02:20,111
My mother. [sniffles]
1075
01:02:21,195 --> 01:02:22,530
Yeah...
1076
01:02:24,824 --> 01:02:26,868
[sighs heavily]
1077
01:02:28,369 --> 01:02:31,372
So, Mom was arguing
1078
01:02:31,497 --> 01:02:33,291
with the person
in the front of the car.
1079
01:02:35,168 --> 01:02:36,461
It was Sam.
1080
01:02:37,336 --> 01:02:39,213
She wanted to get away from Sam.
1081
01:02:41,048 --> 01:02:43,634
And I remember
she went in the back seat.
1082
01:02:43,718 --> 01:02:45,303
And she went to the gas station.
1083
01:02:45,386 --> 01:02:46,679
I think she called Dad
1084
01:02:46,763 --> 01:02:50,725
'cause Dad said that, um,
she had called him.
1085
01:02:53,519 --> 01:02:55,938
[Mickey] I talked to her
an hour before.
1086
01:02:57,774 --> 01:03:00,276
She told me on the phone
1087
01:03:00,359 --> 01:03:03,446
that, "We have
just another hour,
1088
01:03:03,529 --> 01:03:05,448
an hour and a half ride.
1089
01:03:06,407 --> 01:03:08,117
It's late.
1090
01:03:10,203 --> 01:03:12,872
I'm going to get the kids
in the back seat
1091
01:03:12,955 --> 01:03:14,415
and let them sleep."
1092
01:03:15,458 --> 01:03:18,878
And then she went
in the front seat of the car.
1093
01:03:20,838 --> 01:03:23,466
And I oft-- I often think about
1094
01:03:23,549 --> 01:03:26,552
why she didn't just stay
in the back seat with us.
1095
01:03:28,387 --> 01:03:30,598
But I remember her
comforting me...
1096
01:03:31,974 --> 01:03:33,643
telling me
I was going to be fine.
1097
01:03:33,726 --> 01:03:34,852
[inhales sharply]
1098
01:03:34,936 --> 01:03:36,479
Twenty minutes later,
1099
01:03:36,562 --> 01:03:37,939
or half an hour, whatever,
1100
01:03:39,065 --> 01:03:40,733
I heard her scream so loud.
1101
01:03:40,817 --> 01:03:42,693
[breathing heavily]
1102
01:03:43,945 --> 01:03:47,281
And that was it. That just--
It was just silence.
1103
01:03:50,409 --> 01:03:53,079
[breathing heavily, tearfully]
1104
01:03:59,794 --> 01:04:03,297
[Mickey Jr.] My hands,
my arms were all crusty...
1105
01:04:04,841 --> 01:04:06,801
and it felt like my skin
didn't move
1106
01:04:06,926 --> 01:04:09,387
because it was bloody all over.
1107
01:04:09,470 --> 01:04:12,265
And then I looked up
and I saw my, um...
1108
01:04:13,850 --> 01:04:16,602
I thought I saw my mom
in the front seat.
1109
01:04:16,686 --> 01:04:18,729
[swallows forcefully]
1110
01:04:18,813 --> 01:04:20,940
And it was a blonde lady
1111
01:04:21,023 --> 01:04:23,734
and she turned back
and looked at us,
1112
01:04:23,818 --> 01:04:25,695
and it wasn't my mom, you know,
1113
01:04:25,778 --> 01:04:27,446
it was somebody else
who had found us
1114
01:04:27,530 --> 01:04:28,990
on the side of the road.
1115
01:04:29,115 --> 01:04:33,202
[sorrowful piano melody playing]
1116
01:04:33,286 --> 01:04:34,662
[Mariska] Do you remember
what happened
1117
01:04:34,787 --> 01:04:36,622
after they came and got you?
1118
01:04:38,457 --> 01:04:39,876
[Zoltan] I fell asleep.
1119
01:04:41,460 --> 01:04:43,337
We were going to a hospital.
1120
01:04:44,964 --> 01:04:47,425
But at some point I woke up.
1121
01:04:49,302 --> 01:04:51,220
And I'm kind of like
looking around
1122
01:04:51,304 --> 01:04:53,097
and I didn't see you.
1123
01:04:54,807 --> 01:04:57,310
And I said, "Where's Maria?"
1124
01:04:59,020 --> 01:05:00,897
And they said, "Who's Maria?"
1125
01:05:02,648 --> 01:05:04,901
So, uh...
1126
01:05:04,984 --> 01:05:06,611
then we doubled back.
1127
01:05:09,864 --> 01:05:11,240
[Ellen] You were lodged
underneath
1128
01:05:11,324 --> 01:05:12,575
the passenger's seat.
1129
01:05:14,076 --> 01:05:15,620
With a head injury.
1130
01:05:17,997 --> 01:05:19,498
And, um...
1131
01:05:22,335 --> 01:05:23,794
Thank God.
1132
01:05:28,841 --> 01:05:30,843
Thank God Zolie woke up.
1133
01:05:30,927 --> 01:05:33,679
[sorrowful music continues]
1134
01:05:33,763 --> 01:05:35,306
[Zoltan] Oh...
1135
01:05:44,023 --> 01:05:48,527
[mournful, pensive
string melody layers in]
1136
01:06:14,261 --> 01:06:16,389
[string melody fades]
1137
01:06:16,472 --> 01:06:19,767
[sorrowful melody resumes]
1138
01:06:26,273 --> 01:06:29,402
[music fades]
1139
01:06:35,074 --> 01:06:38,577
[gentle, solemn note resonates]
1140
01:06:38,661 --> 01:06:42,832
[hushed, indistinct chatter]
1141
01:06:43,833 --> 01:06:45,626
[Ellen]
After everything happened,
1142
01:06:47,420 --> 01:06:48,587
Mickey called...
1143
01:06:51,090 --> 01:06:54,468
and he said for me
to come to the hospital.
1144
01:06:55,678 --> 01:06:58,597
[gentle, hesitant
instrumentals playing]
1145
01:07:08,524 --> 01:07:11,152
When God took Jayne from us,
1146
01:07:12,278 --> 01:07:13,863
I had a dream about her.
1147
01:07:15,781 --> 01:07:17,324
We were on a...
1148
01:07:18,451 --> 01:07:21,037
We were on a football field...
1149
01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:25,875
and there was a stage
and this limousine pulled up.
1150
01:07:28,169 --> 01:07:30,254
The door opens
to the limousine,
1151
01:07:30,337 --> 01:07:33,799
and she walks
completely across the field,
1152
01:07:36,677 --> 01:07:39,263
and she came up to me
and she said...
1153
01:07:40,890 --> 01:07:44,477
"I'm so glad that you're
taking care of the children.
1154
01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:46,353
You're doing a great job."
1155
01:07:49,398 --> 01:07:51,067
It's a dream.
1156
01:07:51,984 --> 01:07:53,778
But it meant a lot.
1157
01:07:55,196 --> 01:07:57,865
It meant a lot to me.
It was the silliest thing.
1158
01:08:01,243 --> 01:08:03,454
But I do think
that Mickey and I
1159
01:08:03,537 --> 01:08:06,832
provided a very loving home.
1160
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:10,628
[projector clicking]
1161
01:08:10,711 --> 01:08:13,798
[Mariska] Our family was
trying to build a new life,
1162
01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:17,384
so Jayne Marie left
to go live with her uncle,
1163
01:08:18,511 --> 01:08:20,846
Tony went with his dad,
1164
01:08:20,930 --> 01:08:23,349
and we moved into a new house.
1165
01:08:25,684 --> 01:08:28,145
Those are the first memories
that I have.
1166
01:08:30,189 --> 01:08:33,359
I remember being
around our kitchen table.
1167
01:08:34,193 --> 01:08:35,611
I used to play a game
with my dad.
1168
01:08:35,694 --> 01:08:37,446
If I didn't want to eat
something on my plate,
1169
01:08:37,530 --> 01:08:39,448
I would sneak it around
and my dad would eat it.
1170
01:08:41,367 --> 01:08:42,785
We laughed so hard
1171
01:08:42,868 --> 01:08:45,454
and those were just
the best times.
1172
01:08:48,374 --> 01:08:53,045
But in the summertime,
my family would go to Europe.
1173
01:08:54,380 --> 01:08:56,340
And sometimes
they would send me
1174
01:08:56,423 --> 01:08:58,717
to my grandmother's house
by myself.
1175
01:08:58,801 --> 01:09:01,303
[music turns solemn]
1176
01:09:01,387 --> 01:09:05,724
And I used to get sad
because it made me feel like
1177
01:09:05,808 --> 01:09:08,811
I was separate
from the family.
1178
01:09:12,231 --> 01:09:15,317
And then one time
when I was 12,
1179
01:09:16,902 --> 01:09:18,445
I was there
1180
01:09:19,446 --> 01:09:23,534
and I was talking about
my dad so reverently,
1181
01:09:23,617 --> 01:09:25,161
like I always did...
1182
01:09:26,245 --> 01:09:28,038
and she looked at me
1183
01:09:28,122 --> 01:09:30,499
with the strangest expression
and said...
1184
01:09:32,084 --> 01:09:33,669
"I'm all you have."
1185
01:09:35,504 --> 01:09:37,923
And I knew it meant something,
1186
01:09:39,633 --> 01:09:41,302
but I didn't know what.
1187
01:09:41,427 --> 01:09:45,389
[music fades into one
prolonged solemn note]
1188
01:09:48,976 --> 01:09:52,605
[gentle, tinkling melody begins]
1189
01:09:54,773 --> 01:09:57,151
So when I was 21,
1190
01:09:58,485 --> 01:10:00,154
this guy named Sabin Gray,
1191
01:10:00,279 --> 01:10:02,656
who was head of
the Jayne Mansfield Fan Club,
1192
01:10:02,781 --> 01:10:05,618
kept calling me up
and inviting me over.
1193
01:10:06,952 --> 01:10:08,329
He kept saying,
"Oh, we're gonna have
1194
01:10:08,454 --> 01:10:10,497
like a Valentine's party."
1195
01:10:11,957 --> 01:10:14,043
And Sabin was very persistent.
He said, you know,
1196
01:10:14,126 --> 01:10:16,503
"It just really would mean
the world to us if you came by."
1197
01:10:16,629 --> 01:10:18,172
So I was like, "Oh, okay."
1198
01:10:18,297 --> 01:10:20,507
[gentle, pensive music playing]
1199
01:10:20,633 --> 01:10:22,301
When I got there,
1200
01:10:22,384 --> 01:10:25,221
they had movie posters
of her on the wall
1201
01:10:25,304 --> 01:10:27,681
and life-size cutouts
1202
01:10:27,806 --> 01:10:30,517
and all kinds of, um,
things he'd collected.
1203
01:10:32,019 --> 01:10:34,605
It was a little weird for me.
1204
01:10:35,648 --> 01:10:40,194
But then, a few years
after that, when I was 25,
1205
01:10:41,320 --> 01:10:43,697
I was invited
to Sabin's house again,
1206
01:10:44,823 --> 01:10:46,283
and we were alone.
1207
01:10:48,035 --> 01:10:49,995
And then he says to me,
1208
01:10:50,829 --> 01:10:53,040
"Do you want to see
a picture of Nelson?"
1209
01:11:00,172 --> 01:11:03,842
[music intensifies slightly]
1210
01:11:03,926 --> 01:11:06,387
And I said, "Who's Nelson?"
1211
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:09,848
And that's when, like,
1212
01:11:09,932 --> 01:11:12,226
I think the blood
just drained out of his face
1213
01:11:12,351 --> 01:11:15,312
and he sort of went
white as a ghost,
1214
01:11:15,396 --> 01:11:18,774
and he looked at me panicked,
and he said,
1215
01:11:18,857 --> 01:11:21,068
"Well, it's probably not true.
Probably not true."
1216
01:11:21,193 --> 01:11:22,903
And I said, "What's not true?"
1217
01:11:25,531 --> 01:11:28,826
And we went around the corner
and he pulled out this book...
1218
01:11:30,369 --> 01:11:33,831
and he opened the page
and he showed it to me,
1219
01:11:36,208 --> 01:11:38,752
and I just, like,
1220
01:11:38,877 --> 01:11:40,671
couldn't believe
what I was seeing...
1221
01:11:43,382 --> 01:11:45,968
'cause it looked like
the male version of me.
1222
01:11:46,885 --> 01:11:48,345
[music darkens, intensifies]
1223
01:11:48,429 --> 01:11:51,932
- [piercing tone resonating]
- [camera shutter snapping]
1224
01:11:52,057 --> 01:11:54,101
[snapping quickens]
1225
01:11:54,226 --> 01:11:56,937
[tone intensifies,
becomes more shrill]
1226
01:11:57,062 --> 01:11:59,189
[cacophony ends abruptly]
1227
01:11:59,273 --> 01:12:02,067
[quiet, uneasy feedback squeals]
1228
01:12:04,445 --> 01:12:06,322
And it was like the...
1229
01:12:07,823 --> 01:12:10,701
It was like the floor fell out
from underneath me.
1230
01:12:10,784 --> 01:12:13,787
[solemn, dramatic music playing]
1231
01:12:13,912 --> 01:12:15,622
It was, um...
1232
01:12:15,748 --> 01:12:17,082
[inhales deeply]
1233
01:12:17,166 --> 01:12:19,710
...just the bottom
dropped out of everything.
1234
01:12:20,919 --> 01:12:23,547
It was like my infrastructure
dissolved.
1235
01:12:24,256 --> 01:12:25,424
And, uh...
1236
01:12:26,091 --> 01:12:29,386
life as I knew it
was irrevocably changed.
1237
01:12:29,470 --> 01:12:31,513
[music fades]
1238
01:12:31,597 --> 01:12:33,349
[sorrowful melody begins]
1239
01:12:33,432 --> 01:12:36,727
So then I drove up
to see my dad.
1240
01:12:39,104 --> 01:12:41,106
And I walked in,
1241
01:12:41,190 --> 01:12:46,862
I was, um, crying pretty hard,
and I said,
1242
01:12:48,113 --> 01:12:50,866
"Why didn't you tell me
you're not my father?
1243
01:12:50,949 --> 01:12:52,368
You lied to me."
1244
01:12:53,994 --> 01:12:56,955
And he...
1245
01:12:59,458 --> 01:13:02,628
came back at me with,
"What are you talking about?
1246
01:13:02,753 --> 01:13:05,881
I love you. You are my daughter.
1247
01:13:05,964 --> 01:13:08,550
Where did you hear this?
It's all bullshit."
1248
01:13:10,844 --> 01:13:13,806
And he got more upset
than I was.
1249
01:13:15,808 --> 01:13:18,352
More convincing than I was.
1250
01:13:20,312 --> 01:13:22,856
I was in so much pain,
1251
01:13:24,525 --> 01:13:30,239
but I could see his pain
was almost worse.
1252
01:13:33,158 --> 01:13:37,454
So I decided I wouldn't talk
about it again...
1253
01:13:39,164 --> 01:13:42,042
and I would never
bring it up to him again.
1254
01:13:43,877 --> 01:13:46,839
And I never did.
1255
01:13:46,922 --> 01:13:49,967
[music fades]
1256
01:13:50,050 --> 01:13:54,138
[gentle, melancholy music
playing]
1257
01:13:56,682 --> 01:13:58,100
But the fact is,
1258
01:13:59,351 --> 01:14:01,270
I had bad years after that.
1259
01:14:03,188 --> 01:14:04,815
I didn't tell anyone.
1260
01:14:06,442 --> 01:14:09,361
And I would just go to bed
every night crying because...
1261
01:14:10,529 --> 01:14:13,323
I felt lost.
1262
01:14:14,575 --> 01:14:17,327
I had an identity crisis.
1263
01:14:19,037 --> 01:14:21,582
Was I Mariska or Maria?
1264
01:14:22,875 --> 01:14:25,627
Was I Hungarian or Italian?
1265
01:14:26,879 --> 01:14:29,673
I mean, who was I related to?
Who did I belong to?
1266
01:14:30,924 --> 01:14:34,636
And then on top of it,
I was born out of some affair,
1267
01:14:34,720 --> 01:14:39,099
like some illegitimate,
sinful mistake?
1268
01:14:41,059 --> 01:14:42,728
I was so...
1269
01:14:42,811 --> 01:14:43,937
[inhales deeply]
1270
01:14:44,062 --> 01:14:45,522
...angry at my mother
1271
01:14:46,773 --> 01:14:48,817
for leaving me in this mess.
1272
01:14:51,069 --> 01:14:53,739
And for hurting my father.
1273
01:14:55,407 --> 01:14:59,870
And leaving me feeling
so alone and untethered.
1274
01:15:03,248 --> 01:15:06,168
And so for me to survive,
1275
01:15:07,419 --> 01:15:10,172
I excised, disowned
1276
01:15:11,089 --> 01:15:14,218
the part of myself that was
my mother's daughter.
1277
01:15:14,301 --> 01:15:18,180
[melancholy music continues]
1278
01:15:20,807 --> 01:15:23,977
But then I realized
there's this other person.
1279
01:15:24,102 --> 01:15:25,854
Who was this other person?
1280
01:15:26,772 --> 01:15:28,398
Does he not know about me?
1281
01:15:28,482 --> 01:15:30,442
Was he not thinking about me?
1282
01:15:31,527 --> 01:15:34,446
He must have known.
Why didn't he claim me?
1283
01:15:36,490 --> 01:15:39,326
He was an entertainer.
1284
01:15:40,494 --> 01:15:44,998
And so, five years later,
when I was 30 years old,
1285
01:15:45,123 --> 01:15:47,543
my friend and I
went to Atlantic City
1286
01:15:48,669 --> 01:15:50,337
and we went to his show.
1287
01:15:51,547 --> 01:15:55,842
And after the show,
he came out and I said,
1288
01:15:55,968 --> 01:15:57,386
"Hi, Nelson.
1289
01:15:57,469 --> 01:16:00,013
My name is Mariska Hargitay.
1290
01:16:00,138 --> 01:16:02,015
I understand
you knew my mother."
1291
01:16:02,975 --> 01:16:04,685
And he...
1292
01:16:05,852 --> 01:16:10,357
looked at me and basically
burst into tears,
1293
01:16:10,482 --> 01:16:12,276
and he grabbed my ear...
1294
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:15,696
and he said, "I've been waiting
1295
01:16:15,821 --> 01:16:18,031
30 years for this moment."
1296
01:16:23,328 --> 01:16:27,583
And I think we stayed up
until five in the morning
1297
01:16:27,666 --> 01:16:28,917
just talking.
1298
01:16:30,586 --> 01:16:33,005
He said I had two sisters
1299
01:16:35,007 --> 01:16:37,050
and he told me
the whole story.
1300
01:16:39,511 --> 01:16:41,179
That was 30 years ago.
1301
01:16:42,347 --> 01:16:44,433
And I've kept it a secret
ever since.
1302
01:16:44,516 --> 01:16:48,812
[gentle, solemn instrumentals
playing]
1303
01:16:52,024 --> 01:16:53,775
[music fades]
1304
01:16:55,694 --> 01:16:57,946
[Mariska inhales deeply, sighs]
1305
01:16:59,197 --> 01:17:00,657
[Mariska] So here we are.
1306
01:17:00,741 --> 01:17:02,326
[Nelson] Here we are.
1307
01:17:06,288 --> 01:17:07,998
[Mariska] I was up, um...
1308
01:17:09,207 --> 01:17:11,585
all night, pretty much,
last night...
1309
01:17:11,710 --> 01:17:13,670
- [Nelson] Yeah.
- ...thinking about
1310
01:17:13,754 --> 01:17:16,465
you and I have been living
with this secret
1311
01:17:16,548 --> 01:17:17,924
since I was 25.
1312
01:17:18,050 --> 01:17:19,217
Yeah.
1313
01:17:20,052 --> 01:17:23,597
I waited for a long time
to have this.
1314
01:17:24,389 --> 01:17:25,807
[Mariska]
Thank you for your patience.
1315
01:17:25,891 --> 01:17:27,225
[Nelson] Are you kidding?
1316
01:17:27,309 --> 01:17:29,895
When I came to Vegas in '65,
1317
01:17:29,978 --> 01:17:31,355
the columnist asked,
1318
01:17:31,438 --> 01:17:33,774
"Are you the Nelson Sardelli
1319
01:17:34,608 --> 01:17:37,903
that had an affair
with Jayne Mansfield?"
1320
01:17:39,112 --> 01:17:41,907
I said, "You're going
to do me a favor."
1321
01:17:43,241 --> 01:17:44,826
He said, "What?"
1322
01:17:44,910 --> 01:17:46,244
"See my show.
1323
01:17:46,953 --> 01:17:49,539
If I suck, crucify me.
1324
01:17:50,457 --> 01:17:52,042
Put an end to my career.
1325
01:17:53,001 --> 01:17:57,631
But do not mention
our relationship."
1326
01:17:59,591 --> 01:18:02,469
[host] Nelson Sardelli.
Let's give him a nice welcome.
1327
01:18:02,594 --> 01:18:06,390
- [rhythmic tapping]
- [tambourine rattling]
1328
01:18:08,100 --> 01:18:11,520
["Quando, Quando, Quando"
playing]
1329
01:18:12,771 --> 01:18:15,399
♪ Dimmi quando tu verrai ♪
1330
01:18:18,485 --> 01:18:21,321
♪ Dimmi quando tu verrai ♪
1331
01:18:21,446 --> 01:18:24,157
♪ Dimmi quando,
quando, quando ♪
1332
01:18:24,282 --> 01:18:26,910
♪ L'anno, il giorno
e l'ora in cui ♪
1333
01:18:26,993 --> 01:18:28,912
♪ Forse tu mi bacerai ♪
1334
01:18:29,955 --> 01:18:31,415
[song pauses with echo]
1335
01:18:31,498 --> 01:18:34,376
[song resumes]
1336
01:18:41,341 --> 01:18:42,801
[song pauses, then resumes]
1337
01:18:42,926 --> 01:18:44,678
[Nelson] I was
in the beginning of my career
1338
01:18:45,637 --> 01:18:48,432
and I did a show in Atlanta,
1339
01:18:48,515 --> 01:18:52,018
and this particular night,
I decided to go for a walk.
1340
01:18:52,144 --> 01:18:54,730
[song continues]
1341
01:18:54,813 --> 01:18:57,232
And all of a sudden
I see a commotion
1342
01:18:57,315 --> 01:18:58,567
in front of the club.
1343
01:18:59,484 --> 01:19:01,236
And I enter the club.
1344
01:19:01,319 --> 01:19:02,863
The waitress came running to me.
1345
01:19:02,988 --> 01:19:05,031
She says,
"Jayne Mansfield is here."
1346
01:19:05,157 --> 01:19:06,867
[song pauses, then resumes]
1347
01:19:06,992 --> 01:19:08,618
And I approached Jayne,
1348
01:19:09,661 --> 01:19:11,288
and, uh...
1349
01:19:11,371 --> 01:19:13,915
Jayne looked at me
and she spoke Italian,
1350
01:19:13,999 --> 01:19:15,917
you know, she says,
"Buona sera."
1351
01:19:16,001 --> 01:19:18,044
[song pauses with flourish]
1352
01:19:18,170 --> 01:19:19,921
Then she says,
"Come and see my show."
1353
01:19:20,005 --> 01:19:21,673
[song resumes]
1354
01:19:21,757 --> 01:19:22,883
So I went,
1355
01:19:24,217 --> 01:19:26,136
and when the show finished,
1356
01:19:26,219 --> 01:19:28,138
she says, "We go in your car."
1357
01:19:29,431 --> 01:19:30,766
I said, "Whoa-ah."
1358
01:19:31,516 --> 01:19:33,351
[song continues]
1359
01:19:33,435 --> 01:19:39,191
♪ "Non ci lasceremo mai" ♪
1360
01:19:40,942 --> 01:19:42,068
Whee!
1361
01:19:42,194 --> 01:19:44,696
[song ends with flourish]
1362
01:19:44,780 --> 01:19:47,449
[applause]
1363
01:19:50,619 --> 01:19:52,704
[Mariska] Where was my dad
during all of this?
1364
01:19:52,788 --> 01:19:54,998
[solemn music playing]
1365
01:19:55,081 --> 01:19:59,127
[Nelson] There was
some family friction there...
1366
01:20:00,629 --> 01:20:02,798
so they were not talking
to each other.
1367
01:20:04,216 --> 01:20:05,926
[Mariska] So she was separated?
1368
01:20:06,051 --> 01:20:08,178
Or what was the deal
with my dad? Just so I can--
1369
01:20:08,261 --> 01:20:10,180
They were separate--
They were having trouble.
1370
01:20:10,263 --> 01:20:12,390
[Mariska] But if you're going
in public places together.
1371
01:20:12,474 --> 01:20:13,934
Very much so.
1372
01:20:16,144 --> 01:20:18,438
We went every place together.
1373
01:20:20,732 --> 01:20:23,026
Then we start performing
together.
1374
01:20:26,154 --> 01:20:29,074
Then I start being introduced
to the kids.
1375
01:20:32,577 --> 01:20:35,914
And I went to Juárez
for her divorce.
1376
01:20:36,623 --> 01:20:38,083
I was there with her.
1377
01:20:44,172 --> 01:20:47,717
After that, we went
to make a movie in Germany.
1378
01:20:50,303 --> 01:20:51,805
And then we rented a car,
1379
01:20:53,473 --> 01:20:55,934
and we drove all over Europe.
1380
01:20:56,017 --> 01:20:58,270
[gentle, dramatic music playing]
1381
01:21:02,691 --> 01:21:04,401
[Mariska] Where are
these beautiful photos?
1382
01:21:04,484 --> 01:21:05,902
[Nelson] This is in the Alps.
1383
01:21:07,779 --> 01:21:09,281
Tell me about this.
1384
01:21:11,658 --> 01:21:14,077
This is as we entered Italy.
1385
01:21:18,498 --> 01:21:20,876
[Mariska] When did you find out
that she was pregnant?
1386
01:21:21,793 --> 01:21:22,878
[Nelson] Germany.
1387
01:21:24,129 --> 01:21:25,380
[Mariska] Oh...
1388
01:21:25,463 --> 01:21:27,632
Wow. I didn't know that.
That's...
1389
01:21:27,716 --> 01:21:29,968
- Wow. That's...
- Oh yes. Oh yes.
1390
01:21:32,470 --> 01:21:35,307
"Father's Day, 1963.
1391
01:21:36,016 --> 01:21:37,517
To Nelson.
1392
01:21:37,642 --> 01:21:41,855
This special day is even more
special to each of us.
1393
01:21:41,980 --> 01:21:45,066
The seed
of our eternal love grows
1394
01:21:45,150 --> 01:21:49,696
as the sapling that one day
must be a strong oak.
1395
01:21:50,697 --> 01:21:54,367
Te amo al di la, Jayne."
1396
01:21:54,492 --> 01:21:56,411
"Al di la" means...
1397
01:21:58,246 --> 01:21:59,789
"far beyond," you know?
1398
01:22:02,542 --> 01:22:03,668
[Mariska] "Dearest Mama,
1399
01:22:04,669 --> 01:22:06,046
I am going through perhaps
1400
01:22:06,171 --> 01:22:09,049
the most trying time
of my life now,
1401
01:22:09,174 --> 01:22:11,760
indecision regarding
Mickey and Nelson.
1402
01:22:13,011 --> 01:22:14,930
I have the love of two men,
1403
01:22:16,056 --> 01:22:18,350
a very deep love
from each of them.
1404
01:22:19,267 --> 01:22:22,437
I hope God shows me
the way soon,
1405
01:22:23,563 --> 01:22:26,149
because I have really been
depressed of late."
1406
01:22:26,232 --> 01:22:28,193
[music fades]
1407
01:22:28,276 --> 01:22:31,029
[tender, melancholy
instrumentals playing]
1408
01:22:37,160 --> 01:22:39,996
[Nelson] So at the end
of the trip,
1409
01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:42,540
we went to
the St. Peter cathedral.
1410
01:22:44,751 --> 01:22:46,836
And she says,
"Let's make some vows."
1411
01:22:49,297 --> 01:22:50,715
It was beautiful.
1412
01:22:52,634 --> 01:22:55,512
And then she look at me
and she says, "Nelson,
1413
01:22:56,429 --> 01:22:58,682
suppose if we get married
1414
01:23:01,101 --> 01:23:03,728
and I get pregnant
by another man...
1415
01:23:06,982 --> 01:23:08,942
would you take me back?"
1416
01:23:11,403 --> 01:23:15,156
I couldn't believe it.
I say, "How dare you to ask me
1417
01:23:15,240 --> 01:23:17,575
such a... [grunts] ...question?"
1418
01:23:17,659 --> 01:23:18,994
You understand?
1419
01:23:19,786 --> 01:23:20,996
It just...
1420
01:23:21,913 --> 01:23:24,082
It... it was a crash.
1421
01:23:25,834 --> 01:23:28,044
And I...
That, I couldn't take it.
1422
01:23:29,421 --> 01:23:30,964
It was too much.
1423
01:23:32,007 --> 01:23:34,050
I said, "Jayne, tomorrow,
1424
01:23:34,801 --> 01:23:36,928
you go back to America, I stay,
1425
01:23:38,513 --> 01:23:42,600
and then you and I will
never see each other again."
1426
01:23:46,062 --> 01:23:49,566
[Mariska] You knew that she
was pregnant with your child?
1427
01:23:50,734 --> 01:23:51,776
[Nelson] Yes.
1428
01:23:53,319 --> 01:23:55,405
Mariska, I am not denying it.
1429
01:23:57,115 --> 01:24:00,285
And I say this was
the biggest shame in my life.
1430
01:24:01,953 --> 01:24:03,204
I was wrong.
1431
01:24:06,124 --> 01:24:07,625
Did you ever talk to her again?
1432
01:24:07,709 --> 01:24:10,670
[prolonged tense note plays]
1433
01:24:12,380 --> 01:24:16,176
[tender, somber instrumentals
playing]
1434
01:24:16,301 --> 01:24:19,179
[Nelson] It eats me up
that I assumed that position
1435
01:24:19,304 --> 01:24:20,889
of never talking to her
1436
01:24:23,016 --> 01:24:27,103
because a lot of people
paid the price
1437
01:24:27,187 --> 01:24:29,606
for this love affair we had.
1438
01:24:35,945 --> 01:24:38,198
[interviewer] Jayne and Mickey,
welcome to California.
1439
01:24:38,323 --> 01:24:39,866
How does it feel to be home?
1440
01:24:40,658 --> 01:24:42,952
[Jayne] It's just great.
It really is.
1441
01:24:43,036 --> 01:24:46,706
I haven't been home myself
since last March.
1442
01:24:46,831 --> 01:24:48,708
And now we're back here
for Mickey
1443
01:24:48,833 --> 01:24:51,044
to continue
on his television work
1444
01:24:52,003 --> 01:24:54,130
and to have a baby. [laughs]
1445
01:24:54,214 --> 01:24:55,507
That's right.
1446
01:24:59,344 --> 01:25:02,347
[music intensifies]
1447
01:25:03,848 --> 01:25:06,810
[Nelson] I can't imagine
what your father felt.
1448
01:25:06,893 --> 01:25:09,354
[music softens]
1449
01:25:11,606 --> 01:25:13,566
But I am grateful to him.
1450
01:25:18,196 --> 01:25:20,782
[Mariska] Why didn't you ever
reach out after I was born?
1451
01:25:23,284 --> 01:25:25,203
[Nelson] When your mother died,
1452
01:25:26,204 --> 01:25:30,750
your grandmother Vera
wanted me to rock the boat
1453
01:25:32,210 --> 01:25:35,713
and claim you or something.
1454
01:25:37,132 --> 01:25:40,677
But by that time,
Mickey was the father you knew.
1455
01:25:42,303 --> 01:25:46,850
And your siblings,
they were your siblings.
1456
01:25:48,393 --> 01:25:50,353
What would I be accomplishing
1457
01:25:50,436 --> 01:25:53,982
that would be beneficial to you?
1458
01:25:55,775 --> 01:25:57,277
And as the years went by,
1459
01:25:58,570 --> 01:26:02,991
I had a chance to talk
to Mickey Hargitay one time.
1460
01:26:04,742 --> 01:26:05,827
And he said to me,
1461
01:26:07,162 --> 01:26:08,329
"Nelson,
1462
01:26:09,080 --> 01:26:10,915
nobody has to tell me
1463
01:26:12,167 --> 01:26:14,502
who's the father of my child."
1464
01:26:15,962 --> 01:26:17,547
And I said to him,
1465
01:26:19,007 --> 01:26:21,467
"I will not embarrass you
in any way.
1466
01:26:23,303 --> 01:26:24,387
Never."
1467
01:26:24,470 --> 01:26:27,473
[somber music continues]
1468
01:26:32,270 --> 01:26:37,317
[solemn, lilting
bell melody plays]
1469
01:26:37,859 --> 01:26:39,861
Jayne Mansfield
had three children
1470
01:26:39,944 --> 01:26:41,446
by her second husband,
Mickey Hargitay.
1471
01:26:41,529 --> 01:26:43,489
Miklós, and I hope I'm saying
these names properly,
1472
01:26:43,615 --> 01:26:45,241
Zoltan, and Mariska Hargitay
1473
01:26:45,325 --> 01:26:47,410
were all raised
by their father and...
1474
01:26:47,493 --> 01:26:48,745
after their mother died.
1475
01:26:48,828 --> 01:26:49,996
- Nice to meet you.
- Good morning.
1476
01:26:50,121 --> 01:26:51,623
- Nice to meet you.
- Good to see you.
1477
01:26:51,706 --> 01:26:53,208
Good morning, David.
Nice to see you.
1478
01:26:53,291 --> 01:26:54,626
[David] Thank you.
1479
01:26:54,709 --> 01:26:57,503
How much has your dad told you
about your mom?
1480
01:26:57,629 --> 01:26:59,505
What kind of things
has he told you?
1481
01:26:59,631 --> 01:27:03,343
Well, I mean, it just kind of
comes up in conversation
1482
01:27:03,468 --> 01:27:04,844
and we talk about everything,
1483
01:27:04,969 --> 01:27:08,514
I mean, I think,
just whenever it comes up.
1484
01:27:12,727 --> 01:27:14,979
[Mariska] Before I found out,
1485
01:27:15,063 --> 01:27:17,106
did you and Dad ever talk
about Nelson?
1486
01:27:17,190 --> 01:27:19,442
I mean, it must have come up.
1487
01:27:20,985 --> 01:27:23,029
[Ellen] If it came up,
1488
01:27:23,154 --> 01:27:26,616
he would say, "I'm her father.
1489
01:27:26,699 --> 01:27:30,161
[firmly] I'm her father."
Period.
1490
01:27:32,497 --> 01:27:37,085
And no matter what question
I had about it,
1491
01:27:38,086 --> 01:27:42,423
I wanted to give Mickey
the respect of being the one
1492
01:27:42,507 --> 01:27:45,969
who actually said
whatever he knew.
1493
01:27:47,762 --> 01:27:49,514
[Mickey] When Mariska was born,
1494
01:27:50,306 --> 01:27:53,017
her mother Jayne Mansfield
and I went to Hungary
1495
01:27:53,101 --> 01:27:55,979
and we announced it
to my parents
1496
01:27:56,062 --> 01:28:00,566
and my mother wanted to
name her, so much, Mariska.
1497
01:28:00,692 --> 01:28:02,193
And that's when
she become Mariska.
1498
01:28:02,277 --> 01:28:04,070
She's a real Hungarian.
1499
01:28:05,029 --> 01:28:07,573
[somber music continues]
1500
01:28:10,451 --> 01:28:12,537
[Ellen]
Mickey was a great father,
1501
01:28:14,122 --> 01:28:16,374
and he was so full of love
for you.
1502
01:28:19,210 --> 01:28:25,216
But I think Mickey was quite
capable of shutting out pain.
1503
01:28:26,759 --> 01:28:29,387
Which I think he did a lot
with Jayne.
1504
01:28:32,223 --> 01:28:36,185
So he said,
"Mariska's my daughter."
1505
01:28:38,604 --> 01:28:41,774
And he said that
until the day he passed.
1506
01:28:52,577 --> 01:28:56,164
[music settles into solemn
ambient instrumentals]
1507
01:29:02,337 --> 01:29:05,089
[Mariska] "She nudged me,
'Get me that Italian.'
1508
01:29:06,132 --> 01:29:07,467
I spoke with the owner,
1509
01:29:07,592 --> 01:29:10,011
and soon, Irwin
approached Jayne's table,
1510
01:29:10,094 --> 01:29:11,971
the handsome Italian in tow.
1511
01:29:12,680 --> 01:29:16,017
He introduced the Italian
as Nelson Sardelli,
1512
01:29:16,100 --> 01:29:17,393
a performer who was appearing
1513
01:29:17,477 --> 01:29:19,979
at another club
down the street.
1514
01:29:20,104 --> 01:29:22,231
Although nothing of great
consequence was said,
1515
01:29:22,315 --> 01:29:25,568
it was a significant
first meeting to Jayne.
1516
01:29:25,651 --> 01:29:28,237
'That,' she said,
as we left the club,
1517
01:29:28,321 --> 01:29:31,532
'is going to be the father
of my bambino.
1518
01:29:31,616 --> 01:29:34,619
My beautiful little
Italian baby
1519
01:29:34,702 --> 01:29:36,371
I've always wanted.'"
1520
01:29:39,874 --> 01:29:42,752
What do you think
she would think of your book?
1521
01:29:43,669 --> 01:29:45,671
Well, she would've had
some questions about it.
1522
01:29:45,797 --> 01:29:48,716
"Why did you have to say that?
You should've left that out."
1523
01:29:50,468 --> 01:29:53,346
[Mariska] Do you think the story
of my biological father
1524
01:29:53,471 --> 01:29:55,181
was yours to tell?
1525
01:29:56,891 --> 01:29:59,143
What I knew of it, yes.
1526
01:30:01,979 --> 01:30:03,189
[Mariska] When you wrote it,
1527
01:30:04,148 --> 01:30:08,152
did you think about how
it would impact my family?
1528
01:30:09,821 --> 01:30:11,114
No.
1529
01:30:15,743 --> 01:30:18,746
I am sorry if people
were hurt by the book,
1530
01:30:20,373 --> 01:30:22,917
but it was truthful
to the knowledge that I had.
1531
01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:25,169
But I never set out
to hurt anybody,
1532
01:30:25,253 --> 01:30:27,338
and I'm sorry if I did.
1533
01:30:28,756 --> 01:30:31,384
[somber music continues]
1534
01:30:33,761 --> 01:30:36,097
[Mariska]
Reclaiming my own story,
1535
01:30:37,432 --> 01:30:39,809
that is what this
is about for me.
1536
01:30:41,561 --> 01:30:44,689
I'd spent 35 years
trying to hide that story
1537
01:30:46,065 --> 01:30:47,525
to honor my dad.
1538
01:30:48,526 --> 01:30:50,862
But something
that I've also realized
1539
01:30:51,779 --> 01:30:54,157
is that sometimes
keeping a secret
1540
01:30:54,240 --> 01:30:55,533
doesn't honor anyone.
1541
01:30:57,201 --> 01:30:59,328
And it's taken me a long time
to figure that out.
1542
01:31:03,916 --> 01:31:07,003
[music fades]
1543
01:31:07,086 --> 01:31:08,713
I've been thinking about...
1544
01:31:11,215 --> 01:31:14,093
our journey,
our very long journey.
1545
01:31:14,760 --> 01:31:15,803
[woman] Yeah.
1546
01:31:17,054 --> 01:31:19,348
And the ups and downs
of it and the complications
1547
01:31:19,432 --> 01:31:20,808
and the joys of it
1548
01:31:20,892 --> 01:31:22,643
and the sadness and everything.
1549
01:31:23,394 --> 01:31:24,770
And, um...
1550
01:31:25,771 --> 01:31:29,567
I would say you've waited
a long time for this day.
1551
01:31:29,650 --> 01:31:30,985
Yeah.
1552
01:31:31,819 --> 01:31:34,822
I remember when I found out
that I had a sister.
1553
01:31:35,615 --> 01:31:39,285
I think it was
junior high school.
1554
01:31:40,244 --> 01:31:42,079
We were a super open family,
1555
01:31:42,163 --> 01:31:46,584
but there was one
locked drawer in his desk.
1556
01:31:46,667 --> 01:31:51,172
I mean, the truth is,
you kind of always know
1557
01:31:51,255 --> 01:31:52,840
when there's a truth,
1558
01:31:52,924 --> 01:31:54,634
because anything
that's not the truth
1559
01:31:54,759 --> 01:31:56,636
is what you're doing around it.
1560
01:31:56,761 --> 01:32:01,140
And so even when I was little
I just knew... I don't know.
1561
01:32:01,265 --> 01:32:03,142
I mean, there was something.
1562
01:32:04,268 --> 01:32:08,105
So one day I get the lock open,
1563
01:32:08,189 --> 01:32:09,857
and I pull the drawer out
1564
01:32:10,650 --> 01:32:13,361
and I see one envelope
in the back
1565
01:32:14,737 --> 01:32:16,739
and it was from your grandmother
1566
01:32:16,822 --> 01:32:19,033
right after your mom had died.
1567
01:32:19,116 --> 01:32:21,786
And it said, "Dear Nelson..."
1568
01:32:21,869 --> 01:32:23,996
I'm going to tell you what
11-year-old me thinks it said.
1569
01:32:24,121 --> 01:32:25,164
[Mariska] Yeah, yeah.
1570
01:32:25,289 --> 01:32:27,375
Uh, was basically,
"Dear Nelson,"
1571
01:32:27,458 --> 01:32:30,044
um, "I know you have children.
1572
01:32:31,295 --> 01:32:33,130
I'm sure they're fine,
1573
01:32:33,214 --> 01:32:37,426
but there's this amazing child
who is yours.
1574
01:32:37,510 --> 01:32:40,972
She's better than your
other children..." [laughs]
1575
01:32:41,681 --> 01:32:44,225
And that's what I mean by
I know it doesn't say that
1576
01:32:44,308 --> 01:32:48,062
but I was reading and it said,
"She is your family."
1577
01:32:49,230 --> 01:32:53,150
And so I storm
into the kitchen with the letter
1578
01:32:53,234 --> 01:32:56,862
and I'm crying and I say,
"What is this?"
1579
01:32:57,530 --> 01:33:00,533
And he gets really serious
and he says,
1580
01:33:01,367 --> 01:33:03,411
"I don't know this little girl.
1581
01:33:03,494 --> 01:33:06,372
This little girl..."
I'm gonna cry now.
1582
01:33:06,497 --> 01:33:08,916
He says, "This little girl
has a father
1583
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:10,793
who loves her like I love you.
1584
01:33:10,876 --> 01:33:13,713
This little girl is safe."
1585
01:33:13,838 --> 01:33:17,174
"And if she is okay,
she has just lost her mother,
1586
01:33:17,258 --> 01:33:20,303
you cannot take
the only family she knows."
1587
01:33:20,386 --> 01:33:21,721
And that was their decision
1588
01:33:21,846 --> 01:33:23,306
and that's why
they stayed quiet.
1589
01:33:24,432 --> 01:33:26,684
[Giovanna]
And that made sense to me,
1590
01:33:26,767 --> 01:33:30,229
and so I kind of
tucked that away.
1591
01:33:31,522 --> 01:33:34,191
And then, many years later,
I met you.
1592
01:33:35,526 --> 01:33:38,154
And I remember,
it was your birthday party,
1593
01:33:38,237 --> 01:33:39,739
Dad and I were there
1594
01:33:39,864 --> 01:33:42,658
and Katie Couric was there
and she kept going,
1595
01:33:42,742 --> 01:33:45,202
"So you're related
to Mariska how?"
1596
01:33:45,286 --> 01:33:47,538
and we would go,
"No, we're family friends."
1597
01:33:47,622 --> 01:33:52,043
She'd walk around, come back,
"I missed how you're related."
1598
01:33:52,126 --> 01:33:54,170
[laughter]
1599
01:33:54,253 --> 01:33:56,088
And I remember calling you,
going,
1600
01:33:56,797 --> 01:33:58,799
- "So..."
- "So we need to talk."
1601
01:33:58,883 --> 01:34:02,345
"How do we manage
our worlds colliding?
1602
01:34:02,428 --> 01:34:04,472
And how do we manage that?"
1603
01:34:04,555 --> 01:34:07,224
But I... That's something
that's so, um...
1604
01:34:08,059 --> 01:34:12,772
That's so hard, like,
that I didn't have the, um...
1605
01:34:12,897 --> 01:34:14,357
wisdom, I guess, at the time,
1606
01:34:14,440 --> 01:34:18,110
to say,
"This is not yours to carry."
1607
01:34:19,070 --> 01:34:20,738
My need was so big,
1608
01:34:20,821 --> 01:34:23,949
my need for this
to honor Mickey was so huge.
1609
01:34:24,909 --> 01:34:28,079
But the fact is, I was wrong.
1610
01:34:28,162 --> 01:34:29,997
[tender, solemn music playing]
1611
01:34:30,081 --> 01:34:32,708
Because you guys
had to live all these years
1612
01:34:32,792 --> 01:34:35,544
with the secret,
and you were so generous,
1613
01:34:35,628 --> 01:34:37,296
so generous to me.
1614
01:34:38,964 --> 01:34:41,384
So... thank you.
1615
01:34:43,260 --> 01:34:45,638
[solemn music continues]
1616
01:34:56,482 --> 01:34:58,109
[Pietra] I have a question.
1617
01:34:59,151 --> 01:35:02,655
How do you feel about the fact
1618
01:35:02,780 --> 01:35:05,449
that we're coming clean
with the whole story?
1619
01:35:06,325 --> 01:35:07,785
Like, this is going to...
1620
01:35:07,868 --> 01:35:09,995
Now it's out there.
There's no more secrets.
1621
01:35:11,288 --> 01:35:13,499
All this that is happening now,
1622
01:35:14,709 --> 01:35:16,836
all this, to me,
is like as if...
1623
01:35:18,170 --> 01:35:21,090
a stronger and higher power
1624
01:35:21,173 --> 01:35:23,759
is forgiving me
1625
01:35:23,843 --> 01:35:25,428
for whatever mistakes I made.
1626
01:35:25,511 --> 01:35:27,596
- [Mariska] Hmm.
- [exhales sharply]
1627
01:35:28,639 --> 01:35:30,391
There's nothing I can change,
1628
01:35:31,308 --> 01:35:35,271
but I regret having
extricated myself
1629
01:35:35,354 --> 01:35:37,022
from your mother's life.
1630
01:35:37,690 --> 01:35:40,234
Because I think
1631
01:35:40,317 --> 01:35:43,154
certain things would not have
happened to her.
1632
01:35:44,071 --> 01:35:46,282
Yeah. Yeah.
1633
01:35:48,242 --> 01:35:50,369
But, you know, one more thing
I have to say.
1634
01:35:50,995 --> 01:35:54,290
I would love to have had
one more conversation
1635
01:35:54,373 --> 01:35:56,375
with your father
before he passed away,
1636
01:35:57,001 --> 01:36:00,463
because I also would like
to apologize to him.
1637
01:36:02,381 --> 01:36:04,341
Because I'm sure
1638
01:36:04,925 --> 01:36:09,889
I was also part
of his suffering.
1639
01:36:10,014 --> 01:36:11,474
Thank you for saying that.
1640
01:36:11,557 --> 01:36:14,059
Well, it's-it's... I'm-I'm...
1641
01:36:15,352 --> 01:36:17,980
I'm so happy that I have
the chance to...
1642
01:36:18,063 --> 01:36:20,566
have been given a chance
to say those things.
1643
01:36:22,276 --> 01:36:25,279
Well, you're 89, so you'll get
to tell him soon enough.
1644
01:36:25,362 --> 01:36:28,199
[laughter]
1645
01:36:28,282 --> 01:36:31,368
[spluttering]
What is-- What is my obituary?
1646
01:36:31,494 --> 01:36:32,620
[Mariska] You are the greatest!
1647
01:36:32,703 --> 01:36:34,789
[laughter continues]
1648
01:36:34,872 --> 01:36:36,373
In person!
1649
01:36:36,457 --> 01:36:38,459
- Yep!
- Oh, of course!
1650
01:36:38,542 --> 01:36:39,794
Of course.
1651
01:36:39,877 --> 01:36:41,796
- No, because--
- Oh my God!
1652
01:36:41,879 --> 01:36:45,257
Oh my God. Oh my God.
You're so much!
1653
01:36:45,382 --> 01:36:47,051
Okay. Oh yeah.
1654
01:36:51,388 --> 01:36:52,973
Alright, babe.
1655
01:36:53,057 --> 01:36:54,850
- [clears throat]
- I'll call you tomorrow.
1656
01:36:54,934 --> 01:36:56,393
- Got it.
- Okay.
1657
01:36:56,477 --> 01:36:59,563
[gentle, pensive instrumentals
playing]
1658
01:37:06,570 --> 01:37:09,532
[Mariska] What I keep thinking
about is...
1659
01:37:10,157 --> 01:37:11,408
we lost our mother,
1660
01:37:12,910 --> 01:37:14,370
but...
1661
01:37:15,246 --> 01:37:16,956
by making this movie,
1662
01:37:17,832 --> 01:37:19,750
we're breathing new life.
1663
01:37:20,751 --> 01:37:26,090
And so she feels so alive now
to me in such a beautiful way.
1664
01:37:26,841 --> 01:37:29,760
Yeah.
I was actually asking Alexa,
1665
01:37:29,844 --> 01:37:34,306
I was going, saying,
"Alexa, does a soul ever die?"
1666
01:37:35,349 --> 01:37:37,560
And Alexa-- Want to hear it?
1667
01:37:37,643 --> 01:37:39,228
- Watch.
- Like Alexa Alexa?
1668
01:37:39,311 --> 01:37:41,897
Yeah.
Alexa, does a soul ever die?
1669
01:37:41,981 --> 01:37:44,108
[Alexa]
From reginameredith.com.
1670
01:37:44,191 --> 01:37:45,401
The soul does not die.
1671
01:37:45,484 --> 01:37:47,444
- It returns to the universe.
- Yeah.
1672
01:37:47,528 --> 01:37:49,196
It returns to the universe.
1673
01:37:49,280 --> 01:37:51,323
The soul never dies.
1674
01:37:55,119 --> 01:37:56,871
[Mariska]
So I made something for you
1675
01:37:56,954 --> 01:37:59,915
from some of the things
in the storage unit.
1676
01:37:59,999 --> 01:38:01,667
And I wanted to give it to you.
1677
01:38:03,335 --> 01:38:06,213
You put this together
like this? Aw...
1678
01:38:06,797 --> 01:38:08,090
Is that me?
1679
01:38:08,173 --> 01:38:10,259
[Mariska]
This whole book is you.
1680
01:38:10,342 --> 01:38:12,011
[Jayne Marie] Oh my God.
1681
01:38:12,136 --> 01:38:13,178
Wow.
1682
01:38:14,221 --> 01:38:16,765
I look like
the Grey Gardens lady.
1683
01:38:16,849 --> 01:38:19,018
- [Mariska] Yeah!
- [Jayne Marie laughs]
1684
01:38:21,312 --> 01:38:23,147
- You know who I mean?
- Yes.
1685
01:38:23,230 --> 01:38:26,108
I also found some cards
that you wrote to Mom.
1686
01:38:26,817 --> 01:38:28,652
[Jayne Marie]
"To the most wonderful mommy
1687
01:38:28,736 --> 01:38:29,987
in the whole world.
1688
01:38:30,112 --> 01:38:32,698
Your loving child, Jayne Marie."
1689
01:38:32,823 --> 01:38:36,702
God, who thought this existed
all these decades?
1690
01:38:38,037 --> 01:38:39,914
[Mariska]
Let me read this one to you.
1691
01:38:40,915 --> 01:38:44,627
"Dear Mommy, I love you
in the daytime
1692
01:38:44,710 --> 01:38:47,212
and I love you in the night,
1693
01:38:47,338 --> 01:38:51,550
but what am I gonna do
when you get out of my sight?
1694
01:38:52,176 --> 01:38:55,137
I love you in the a.m.
and p.m. too.
1695
01:38:55,220 --> 01:38:58,515
And if you're where
I think you are...
1696
01:38:58,599 --> 01:39:01,310
[laughs softly]
1697
01:39:01,393 --> 01:39:05,272
...I hope not out
with that old Jack Paar."
1698
01:39:05,356 --> 01:39:07,650
- I-- You're kidding me!
- [Mariska laughs]
1699
01:39:07,733 --> 01:39:08,859
You're kidding me!
1700
01:39:08,943 --> 01:39:10,611
[both] "I hope you're not out
1701
01:39:10,694 --> 01:39:12,696
with that old Jack Paar."
1702
01:39:12,780 --> 01:39:14,031
[Jayne Marie laughs]
1703
01:39:14,114 --> 01:39:15,866
[Mariska] Okay, this is some
of your best work.
1704
01:39:15,950 --> 01:39:18,369
[tender, gentle instrumentals
playing]
1705
01:39:26,043 --> 01:39:28,087
[Mariska] I'm so happy
that you guys are here today
1706
01:39:28,212 --> 01:39:30,297
because I hated doing it
without you.
1707
01:39:30,881 --> 01:39:33,217
- [Jayne Marie] These boxes?
- [Zoltan] Oh my goodness.
1708
01:39:33,300 --> 01:39:35,219
- [Mariska] Okay. Hold on.
- [Zoltan] Here.
1709
01:39:35,302 --> 01:39:36,845
[Mariska] Oh...
1710
01:39:38,389 --> 01:39:40,432
[Jayne Marie] Oh my God.
It's the press books.
1711
01:39:43,519 --> 01:39:45,729
[Mariska] "Making like Marilyn."
1712
01:39:45,813 --> 01:39:46,897
Wow.
1713
01:39:48,399 --> 01:39:49,942
[Zoltan] Sliding...
1714
01:39:51,568 --> 01:39:53,445
- Oh my goodness.
- [Mickey Jr.] Look at that.
1715
01:39:53,570 --> 01:39:55,280
So sweet. Oh.
1716
01:39:56,115 --> 01:39:58,742
Look. Santa Claus
is freaking me out over here.
1717
01:39:58,826 --> 01:40:00,703
[laughter]
1718
01:40:00,786 --> 01:40:02,997
- That is so creepy.
- Creepy Santa Claus.
1719
01:40:03,080 --> 01:40:05,499
[Jayne Marie] Every kid
hates Santa Claus at that age.
1720
01:40:05,582 --> 01:40:06,917
[Zoltan]
What's that on your leg?
1721
01:40:07,001 --> 01:40:08,669
- [Jayne Marie] Some blanket.
- [Zoltan] On your leg?
1722
01:40:08,752 --> 01:40:11,255
[Jayne Marie screams]
Oh, you shit...
1723
01:40:11,338 --> 01:40:13,966
[Zoltan]
Mickey wanted me to do that.
1724
01:40:14,091 --> 01:40:15,759
He found it in the box.
1725
01:40:15,843 --> 01:40:17,428
- We got her.
- It's just like old times.
1726
01:40:17,511 --> 01:40:19,346
- And he's got it on camera.
- You guys...
1727
01:40:19,430 --> 01:40:22,808
Back to being my little bros.
1728
01:40:22,933 --> 01:40:25,394
Oh, come, come, come.
1729
01:40:25,936 --> 01:40:27,271
Oh my God.
1730
01:40:27,396 --> 01:40:29,690
- This is a Golden Globe.
- [Jayne Marie] It is?
1731
01:40:29,773 --> 01:40:31,692
[Mariska] Hollywood
Foreign Press Association.
1732
01:40:31,775 --> 01:40:33,527
Look. Hold it, guys.
1733
01:40:34,945 --> 01:40:36,447
[Jayne Marie] "Jayne Mansfield.
1734
01:40:36,530 --> 01:40:38,574
International Stardom Award.
1735
01:40:38,657 --> 01:40:41,201
- 20th Century Fox."
- [Mariska] Significant.
1736
01:40:41,285 --> 01:40:43,495
You know what?
You could put this with yours.
1737
01:40:43,620 --> 01:40:46,248
- Yeah.
- If you let me, I'd love to.
1738
01:40:46,331 --> 01:40:48,959
- You earned it. [laughs]
- [Mickey Jr.] Mm-hmm.
1739
01:40:49,043 --> 01:40:51,462
- [Mickey Jr. chuckles]
- You made it.
1740
01:40:53,088 --> 01:40:57,259
[bright, hopeful music playing]
1741
01:40:57,342 --> 01:41:01,722
[metallic rattling, squeaking]
1742
01:41:23,035 --> 01:41:24,453
[quietly] Oh my God...
1743
01:41:25,496 --> 01:41:27,164
Do we own it?
1744
01:41:28,207 --> 01:41:30,084
Yeah. Happy birthday.
1745
01:41:34,755 --> 01:41:35,881
[Mariska] Thank you.
1746
01:41:38,342 --> 01:41:40,552
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
1747
01:41:45,432 --> 01:41:48,519
[bright music continues]
1748
01:42:09,915 --> 01:42:12,334
[music softens]
1749
01:42:12,417 --> 01:42:13,961
[Mariska]
I've spent most of my life
1750
01:42:14,044 --> 01:42:15,879
feeling ashamed of my mother.
1751
01:42:17,464 --> 01:42:20,217
A person that I had
no memory of.
1752
01:42:21,385 --> 01:42:24,638
A person whose voice
I didn't want to hear.
1753
01:42:26,098 --> 01:42:30,519
A person whose career made me
want to do it differently.
1754
01:42:33,063 --> 01:42:37,109
A person who made her share
of problematic choices
1755
01:42:38,068 --> 01:42:42,197
and left me
with loss and secrets.
1756
01:42:44,241 --> 01:42:48,662
But at 60 years old,
I feel different.
1757
01:42:50,080 --> 01:42:54,126
I see myself in you
for the first time.
1758
01:42:55,794 --> 01:42:57,379
The way you smile.
1759
01:42:58,755 --> 01:43:00,507
The way you laugh.
1760
01:43:02,926 --> 01:43:08,515
I also have such maternal
feelings for you now.
1761
01:43:08,599 --> 01:43:11,935
You were 16 years old
when you got pregnant.
1762
01:43:12,603 --> 01:43:15,898
You were a baby
when you started this career.
1763
01:43:17,649 --> 01:43:18,984
I so get it.
1764
01:43:19,985 --> 01:43:23,614
I get how hurt
you must have been.
1765
01:43:23,697 --> 01:43:27,159
Looking for something
that you never found.
1766
01:43:27,284 --> 01:43:29,244
You in some sort of trouble?
1767
01:43:30,537 --> 01:43:33,582
[Mariska] But you had so much
inside of you.
1768
01:43:34,166 --> 01:43:35,500
I'll beat it before she shows.
1769
01:43:35,626 --> 01:43:37,878
[Mariska]
And that's who I see now.
1770
01:43:39,463 --> 01:43:42,257
I see you, Jayne.
1771
01:43:43,842 --> 01:43:46,428
My mom Jayne.
1772
01:43:48,472 --> 01:43:49,598
I love you.
1773
01:43:52,142 --> 01:43:53,560
And I miss you.
1774
01:43:54,811 --> 01:43:58,482
[tender, dramatic
instrumentals playing]
1775
01:43:58,565 --> 01:44:03,779
[music ends abruptly, fades]
1776
01:44:03,862 --> 01:44:07,991
["Just Plain Jayne"
by Jayne Mansfield playing]
1777
01:44:08,116 --> 01:44:11,828
♪ Our president said
and I agree ♪
1778
01:44:11,912 --> 01:44:15,207
♪ That we must balance
our economy ♪
1779
01:44:15,332 --> 01:44:18,835
♪ There are problems
that we all must face ♪
1780
01:44:18,961 --> 01:44:22,673
♪ And luxuries
are out of place ♪
1781
01:44:23,465 --> 01:44:26,635
♪ JFK, you're right ♪
1782
01:44:26,718 --> 01:44:30,389
♪ I'm joining in the fight ♪
1783
01:44:31,181 --> 01:44:34,351
♪ I don't want
expensive treasures ♪
1784
01:44:34,476 --> 01:44:37,521
♪ I prefer
the simple pleasures ♪
1785
01:44:37,646 --> 01:44:41,525
♪ Like a Longfellow poem
A Cadillac vroom ♪
1786
01:44:41,608 --> 01:44:44,361
♪ A villa in Rome
or in Spain ♪
1787
01:44:44,486 --> 01:44:45,862
♪ I'm just ♪
1788
01:44:47,823 --> 01:44:49,408
♪ Plain Jayne ♪
1789
01:44:49,533 --> 01:44:51,868
[man] Oh, Jaynie,
you're just too marvelous!
1790
01:44:51,994 --> 01:44:55,497
♪ I'm not rich
I have a few chips ♪
1791
01:44:55,580 --> 01:44:58,875
♪ All my stocks
are strictly blue chips ♪
1792
01:44:59,001 --> 01:45:02,379
♪ Like AT&T and General E ♪
1793
01:45:02,504 --> 01:45:05,382
♪ I bought me the A&P chain ♪
1794
01:45:05,507 --> 01:45:09,386
♪ My kids play catch
with diamond rocks ♪
1795
01:45:09,511 --> 01:45:12,889
♪ And I hold the mortgage
on Fort Knox ♪
1796
01:45:13,015 --> 01:45:15,892
♪ In gold I trust
because I'm just ♪
1797
01:45:16,018 --> 01:45:21,857
♪ Plain, plain Jayne ♪
1798
01:45:21,940 --> 01:45:25,861
[man] Oh, Jaynie,
I'm simply exhausted!
1799
01:45:25,944 --> 01:45:29,906
[applause]