Jayne Mansfield shares her experiences from her last trip around the world.Jayne Mansfield shares her experiences from her last trip around the world.Jayne Mansfield shares her experiences from her last trip around the world.
Jayne Mansfield
- Self
- (archive footage)
Mickey Hargitay
- Self - Jayne's Husband
- (archive footage)
Dick Randall
- Man on Via Veneto
- (as Bob Oliver)
- …
Robert Jason
- Narrator
- (voice)
Barbara Branch
- Self - Guitarist
- (as The Ladybirds)
Deborah Dayan
- Self - Keyboardist
- (as The Ladybirds)
- Directors
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaUnder the working title "Jayne Mansfield Reports Europe", actual footage of her in Paris and Rome was shot in the spring and summer of 1964, and edited with clips from other movies. On her return to America, additional filming in New York City and Hollywood was done later the same year. All segments were done in Mondo style. Following Mansfield's death in 1967 accident, portions of her narration for this film were recorded by an uncredited voice actress who sounds like her.
- Quotes
Jayne Mansfield: That night, we went to a nightclub, the Blue Bunny. The sign said it was a topless club. What could be inside, I wondered. Topless customers? Ooh, that girl - she was so lovely! But good thing they had her in a cage. The featured act came on, the Ladybirds. Ooh, they were good! I was surprised - they were all lovely girls! As for the girl in the cage: A little silicone will go a long, long way!
- Crazy creditsThe featured persons in the opening credits ends with «...and a cast of thousands of Jayne's friends all over the world». This is blatantly not true, as if the number of pedestrians do not reach one thousand if you count them all, and Jayne is shown in very few parts of the world. A crazy hype for the movie.
- Alternate versionsIn Italy, after the initial ban (July 30, 1968) the Distributor Patry Film got an approval for adults (over 18) but to copy cut to 2100 meters (76m33s).
- ConnectionsEdited from The Loves of Hercules (1960)
- SoundtracksThe Bird is The Word
Performed by Rocky Roberts and The Airdales(uncredited)
Featured review
About as Tasteless As You Can Get
The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield (1968)
BOMB (out of 4)
If you're looking for a documentary on the life and career of Jayne Mansfield then it's best you stay far away from this "film" which is really nothing more than an exploitation of the actress. What we basically get is a mondo movie that features footage of a vacation Mansfield took to Rome, Italy just months before her death. With a fake narrator pretending to be Mansfield, she talks about all sorts of dumb things but mostly about how she loves Italian men and wishes she could see a Roman orgy. Because there was so little footage of this vacation, we also get clips from some of her later movies edited in and there's footage of other people not even connected to Mansfield in her real life. This is an incredibly stupid, tasteless and downright waste of time that just proves that the actress was treated just as bad after her death as she was in the last few years of her life. We get several shots from her Playboy photos as well as clips from the notorious PROMISES....PROMISES! but this film here makes that stinker look like the work of Orson Welles. The silly thing is that there are three people credited with directing this movie but if any of them had any class they would have requested their names be removed. Again, there's no question that this thing was rushed into production to capitalize on Mansfield's death but the most sickening thing comes in the final ten minutes when we see a fake "crash" and then see death photos of Mansfield who of course died in a car crash. Even more tasteless is that we see her ex-husband Mickey Hargitay showing off the home they shared and then we get introduced to their two sons, both of whom were in the car when their mother died. The first portion of this film, as bad as it is, was apparently just trying to exploit the star and show off its X-rating but what happens at the end is just a disgrace and really vile. This film is just a complete bore that turns into something so tasteless that there's really no point in watching the film.
BOMB (out of 4)
If you're looking for a documentary on the life and career of Jayne Mansfield then it's best you stay far away from this "film" which is really nothing more than an exploitation of the actress. What we basically get is a mondo movie that features footage of a vacation Mansfield took to Rome, Italy just months before her death. With a fake narrator pretending to be Mansfield, she talks about all sorts of dumb things but mostly about how she loves Italian men and wishes she could see a Roman orgy. Because there was so little footage of this vacation, we also get clips from some of her later movies edited in and there's footage of other people not even connected to Mansfield in her real life. This is an incredibly stupid, tasteless and downright waste of time that just proves that the actress was treated just as bad after her death as she was in the last few years of her life. We get several shots from her Playboy photos as well as clips from the notorious PROMISES....PROMISES! but this film here makes that stinker look like the work of Orson Welles. The silly thing is that there are three people credited with directing this movie but if any of them had any class they would have requested their names be removed. Again, there's no question that this thing was rushed into production to capitalize on Mansfield's death but the most sickening thing comes in the final ten minutes when we see a fake "crash" and then see death photos of Mansfield who of course died in a car crash. Even more tasteless is that we see her ex-husband Mickey Hargitay showing off the home they shared and then we get introduced to their two sons, both of whom were in the car when their mother died. The first portion of this film, as bad as it is, was apparently just trying to exploit the star and show off its X-rating but what happens at the end is just a disgrace and really vile. This film is just a complete bore that turns into something so tasteless that there's really no point in watching the film.
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- Mar 8, 2012
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Jayne Mansfield Reports
- Filming locations
- Île du Levant, Hyères, Var, France(Jayne goes topless aboard the riverboat to the island, and visits its naturist beach and Le Bazar d'Heliopolis.)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was The Wild Wild World of Jayne Mansfield (1968) officially released in Canada in English?
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