Want to know the best Jayne Mansfield movies? How about the worst Jayne Mansfield movies? Curious about Jayne Mansfield box office grosses or which Jayne Mansfield movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Jayne Mansfield movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which ones got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place…. because we have all of that information and much more.
Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967) was an American actress and singer. She was a major Hollywood sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s and one of 20th Century Fox’s main sex symbol actresses Her IMDb page shows 34 acting credits from 1954-1967. This page will rank 19 Jayne Mansfield movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Uncredited roles, bit parts and short were not included in the rankings. This page comes from a request from Brit.
Jayne Mansfield Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Jayne Mansfield movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Jayne Mansfield movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Jayne Mansfield movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Jayne Mansfield movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and Oscar® wins each Jayne Mansfield movie received.
- Sort Jayne Mansfield movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Stats From The Above Jayne Mansfield Table
- Two Jayne Mansfield movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 10.53% of her movies listed. The Girl Can’t Help It (1956) was her biggest box office hit.
- An average Jayne Mansfield movie grosses $58.70 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 8 Jayne Mansfield movies are rated as good movies…or 42.10% of her movies. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) was her highest rated movie while The Fat Spy (1966) was her lowest rated movie.
- One Jayne Mansfield movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 5.26% of her movies.
- Zero Jayne Mansfield movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 0.00% of her movies.
- An “a good movie” Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 60.00. 7 Jayne Mansfield movies scored higher than that….or 36.84% of her movies. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) got the the highest UMR Movie Score while The Fat Spy (1966) got the lowest UMR Movie Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Jane Mansfield
1. Vera Jayne Palmer was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1933. So how did Vera Palmer become Jayne Mansfield? She used her middle name and the last name of her first husband, Paul Mansfield.
2. While attending The University of Texas at Austin, Jayne Mansfield won several beauty contests. Some of her winning titles: Miss Photoflash, Miss Magnesium Lamp, and Miss Fire Prevention Week.
3. Jayne Mansfield posed nude for the February 1955 issue of Playboy. She joined Marilyn Monroe, Bettie Page, and Anita Ekberg as one of the first ever Playboy Playmates.
4. Jayne Mansfield many beauty contest victories led her to signing a 7 year movie contract with Warner Brothers.
5. Dissatisfied with the her Warner contract, Jayne Mansfield, was released from her contract after only a few movies. She later was signed by 20th Century Fox in an effort to mold her as a successor to Marilyn Monroe.
6. Jayne Mansfield was married three times and had 5 children.
7. Jayne Mansfield’s daughter, Mariska Hargitay, has played Olivia Benson on Law & Order: Special Victim Unit since 1999. That show has run for an incredible 417 episodes.
8. Jayne Mansfield turned down the role of Ginger Grant on the television show Gilligan’s Island.
9. Though her film career seemed to have fallen from grace in the mid and late 1960s, Jayne Mansfield’s nightclub act was huge, earning her $8,000-$17,000 weekly.
10. Check out Jayne Mansfield’s movie career compared to current and classic stars on our Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time page.
Steve’s Jayne Mansfield You Tube video goes very well with this page.
This might be a first….Steve’s video has more movies listed than our UMR Mansfield page….20 for him….and 19 for us.
HI STEVE
Thanks for the feedback; the ratings explanations and the information about your new sources.
I hope things are ok for you abd despite the current restrictions you are enjoying your weekend.
MY TOP 12 BEST POSTER SETS
1/Female Jungle
2/Primitive Love
3/It Happened in Athens
4/Panic Button
5/Dog Eat Dog
6/Playgirl After Dark
7/Loves of Hercules
8/Single Room Furnished
9/two for It Takes a Thief
10/foreign language one for The Girl Can’t Help It
11/foreign language one for Rock Hunter
12/Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
STILLS I counted just 6 but I want to mention them all.
1/Jayne with the car
2/Jayne and Archie
3/Jayne and Joan Collins
4Jayne in just furs
5/Illegal
6/Guide for a Married Man.
TOP NOTCH STEVE with the only fly in the ointment for me being Sheriff of Fractured Jaw being ranked 5 by your sources. As I’ve already said I was a big Kenneth More fan but as you know Joel and I “tell it as it is” You will see from the tables above that WH is more realistic from my point of view placing it 10th when you press the Review button though he credits it with an adjusted gross of around $84 million which surprises me as Wikipedia says it lost money at the US box office; though maybe it had to do better than that to offset production and distribution costs.
I give the limited selections that I have listed [see part 3]a 99% personal satisfaction rating. It’s very short but I’ve rarely seen such an eye popping video! When Jayne was active back in the 1950s/60s never saw those types of raunchy posters around – where were they hiding? Definitely I rated the video too low [96%] the first time round. As the saying goes we live and learn.
You and WH agree on 3 of the Top 5. I support your inclusion of Eddie Robinson’s Illegal; but why on earth did you make the Sheriff of Fractured Jaw your No 5? I was a great Kenneth More fan in his heyday and I loved your poster which is in my pick of 12 but I thought that movie dire.
It was billed as a comedy but for my money the only thing less funny would have been an Al Leach screwball farce. ‘Sheriff’ was the 10th biggest box office hit in Britain in 1958 because Ken was still big there but was a huge flop in the States critically and financially and the whole point of putting American sex symbol Mansfield in it was to try to sell Ken in the States. It was actually one of the first westerns ever shot in Spain. Jayne’s singing voice in it was dubbed by Connie Francis – a lovely singer in my estimation and she is still alive and professionally active at 81.
Jayne was of course one of the 1950s “blonde bombshell” squad and indeed for a while was probably the most successful after Monroe with Mansfield getting into the Quigley Top 10 popularity poll in 1963.
Apart from hair colour the “bombshells” usually had two things in common from my perspective (1) a buxom figure and there Jayne struck me as the most generously proportioned of the tribe! (2) limited talent. I thought that even Monroe was overrated.
I first watched and commented on your Mansfield video in August 2017 and here is a copy of a few of my comments at the time:
“HI STEVE You certainly caught me by [albeit a pleasant] surprise today as I hadn’t thought about Jayne in years and had therefore obviously not expected a video from you about her.
Jayne had a relatively short career having been sadly killed in a car accident in 1967 at the age of 37 but her mainstream Hollywood career was in decline before that, so you’ve done well to create a profile of her. Few if any of your provocative POSTERS left much to the imagination and are worth an overall 96% rating from me.”
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating (ooh), info and triva, always appreciated. Glad you liked the posters, stills and lobby cards.
Looking at my files – Sheriff of Fractured Jaw had better than average ratings at a few sources including the Radio Times Movie Guide. The latter is British which might account for the high score (8 out of 10). I’ve added new sources since that video was published, the revised score for that film would be 6.4 which is still higher than Bruce’s 5.8 and which would place it at 6th position on the revised chart for Mansfield. I haven’t seen that film.
No.1 on her revised chart is still ‘Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?’ followed close behind by ‘The Girl Can’t Help It’ and Guide for the Married Man at no.3.
I was tempted to add the 1980 TV movie which starred Loni Anderson as Jayne Mansfield and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mickey Hargitay but thought it might spoil the video.
“Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands.”
“I like being a pin-up girl, there’s nothing wrong with it. I’ve got the strangest build. It’s big in the hips, small in the waist and I’ve got these enormous… shoulders.”
“Nothing risque, nothing gained.”