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How an In Memoriam Snub Led to a Stella Stevens Documentary with Quentin Tarantino
Snubs from the annual Oscars in memoriam segment are always uncomfortable, but 2023 was an especially awkward year for the Academy. Leslie Jordan, Anne Heche, Tom Sizemore, Paul Sorvino, and more celebrities who had recently passed were excluded from the ceremony. For the late Stella Stevens— a blonde bombshell known for decades of TV and film, and who at 83 had died just one month earlier from advanced Alzheimer’s disease — facing disrespect from the industry was always routine.
“I wrote letters to the Motion Picture Academy,” said filmmaker Andrew Stevens, Stella’s only son. With hundreds of credits to his name, the director, producer, and actor makes han själv as busy as his late mother but is best known for appearing in 1978’s “The Boys in Company C.” Speaking with IndieWireearlier this J
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Jayne Mansfield
American actress and Playmate (1933–1967)
For her daughter, see Jayne Marie Mansfield.
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Mansfield in 1957 | |
| Born | Vera Jayne Palmer (1933-04-19)April 19, 1933 Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | June 29, 1967(1967-06-29) (aged 34) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Resting place | Fairview Cemetery, Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania 40°51′42″N75°14′25″W / 40.861672°N 75.240244°W / 40.861672; -75.240244 |
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| Years active | 1954–1967 |
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| Children | 5, including Jayne and Mariska[1] |
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| Website | jaynemansfield.com |
Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – Ju
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Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer on April 19, 1933, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, to Herbert and Vera Palmer. Herbert, who was 30, died of an unexpected heart attack when she was three years old. After his death, Vera Palmer worked as a schoolteacher to support the family. In 1939, she met a sales engineer named Harry L. Peers, fell in love, and moved to Dallas, Texas. Mansfield had a middle-class upbringing and had piano, violin, and dance lessons.
When Jayne Mansfield was 17 she married Paul Mansfield, who was 21. They married on May 6, 1950, in Fort Worth, Texas. In June 1950, Mansfield graduated from Highland Park High School. She went on to give birth to her first child, Jayne Marie Mansfield, on November 8, 1950. Mansfield attended the University of Texas at Austin in 1951, and decided to become an actress. Her husband, Paul, was drafted the next year into the Korean War. During the two years he was in the army, she appeared in local television shows and plays and stu