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In 1964, with no decent film offers, Jayne embarks on summer stock and dinner theater, starring in Bus Stop and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (both formerly Marilyn Monroe films). She falls in love with director Matt Cimber, which ends her marriage to Mickey Hargitay. Jayne and Matt marry on September 24, 1964. Jayne and Matt move to New York, abandoning the Pink Palace.In August 1964 Jayne meets the Beatles who (except for Ringo) are cruel and dismissive toward her. Jayne also promotes her delightfully silly Jayne Mansfield for President campaign (\"The White House or Bust!\").

Jayne Mansfield (19331967) was driven not just to be an actress but to be a star.One of the most influential sex symbols of her time, she was known for her platinum blonde hair, hourglass figure, outrageously low necklines, and flamboyant lifestyle.

Jayne's legacy: the bizarre posthumous film The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield; the 1980 TV-movie with Loni Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger; Jayne's afterlife as a rock muse; the Mansfield Bar, which warns oncoming drivers to prevent the kind of accident that killed her; and what became of her husbands and children, including Mariska Hargitay's role on Law & Order: SVU. The book ends with the demolition of the Pink Palace in 2002.

Jayne and Sam tour Asia, and Jayne performs for troops in Vietnam, appearing in Saigon, the Mekong Delta and Da Nang. In the spring of 1967, Jayne and Sam make a nightclub tour of the British Isles, Jayne getting fired halfway through for being late, unprepared and bruised, as rumors of her drinking and Sam's domestic abuse are whispered about. In June 1967, Jayne Marie flees from the Pink palace to a police station, claiming that Sam Brody beat her.

The troubled childhood of Jayne's oldest daughter Jayne Marie, and Jayne's well-meaning but misguided parenting skills. Jayne's bizarre record Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me, and her very worst film, the Italian-made comedy Primitive Love (1964). Also discussed in this chapter is Jayne's recording career, which included varyingly successful rock songs, including one backed by Jimi Hendrix on guitar.

While Jayne Marie sues for emancipation from her mother, Jayne and Sam travel to Biloxi with Mickey, Jr., Zoltan and Mariska to fill a club date. Early in the morning of June 29, 1967, while driving to a New Orleans engagement, Jayne, Sam and driver Ronnie Harrison are killed in an auto crash.

Jayne is signed by 20th Century-Fox, and she (with daughter Jayne Marie and Mickey) move to Hollywood in 1956. This chapter will discuss 20th Century-Fox, and the most popular blonde bombshells of the mid-1950s (Monroe, Kim Novak, the Gabors, Diana Dors, etc.)