As much as I love Mariska Hargitay, I feel that Jayne Marie Mansfield gets short shrift. Granted, she has chosen a private life and good on her.
It just bugs me when I see photos of Jayne and a young girl on Facebook groups like
Tragic Hollywood: Beautiful, Glamorous and Dead and everyone says "That's Mariska!" Actually, most photos you see of Jayne with a young girl are of Jayne Marie, not Mariska. Mariska was 3 1/2 when Jayne died, and relatively speaking there are fewer photos of her with Jayne.
When Jayne was starring in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? on Broadway, she and Jayne Marie were pretty much all the other one had. By all accounts, they were very close. There was some distancing and difficulties when Jayne Marie became a teenager; Jayne was having financial difficulties and was embroiled in a relationship with that dirtbag, Sam Brody.
My little rant being over, here is a fairly rare current (November, 2013) photo of Jayne Marie Mansfield (with Mariska). Jayne Marie also favors her mother in some ways.
VCNJ~