Jayne Mansfield Gravesite

Jayne Mansfield's Grave

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  Pen Argyl,   Pennsylvania  

A heart-shaped headstone marks the final resting place of actress Jayne Mansfield, born Vera Jane Palmer in the town of Bryn Mawr, PA in 1933. Young Jane won a beauty contest before she was famous and was crowned "Miss Magnesium Lamp." She nearly unseated Marilyn Monroe as the reigning blond bombshell in the late 1950s, but always ended up as the B-team Monroe (though higher on the bombshell food chain than her B-movie pal Mamie Van Doren, or Dixie Evans, the "Marilyn Monroe of Burlesque"). Like all the bleach-blonde sex goddesses, Jayne's career was waning in the wake of Marilyn's death -- when she met her own untimely end at the age of 34.