Captain Olivia Benson is able to clear up a brand new case— the dying of her mom, Jayne Mansfield. Mariska Hargitay introduced on Tuesday, April 8, that she has been engaged on a documentary, My Mother Jayne, in regards to the mother she by no means knew.
“Energy in vulnerability. A brand new HBO Authentic documentary, #MyMomJayne, directed by @TheRealMariskaHargitay, about embracing Hollywood icon Jayne Mansfield, the mom she by no means knew, is streaming on @StreamOnMax this June,” the HBO Instagram account posted, together with a photograph of Hargitay and her mother.
“This film is a labor of affection and longing. It’s a seek for the mom I by no means knew, an integration of part of myself I’d by no means owned, and a reclaiming of my mom’s story and my very own reality,” she mentioned in a press launch. “I’ve at all times believed there’s power in vulnerability, and the method of constructing this movie has confirmed that perception like by no means earlier than.” The documentary is produced by Hargitay and Trish Adlesic and govt produced by Lauran Bromley.
The documentary “follows Mariska as she seeks to know, perceive, and embrace her mom for the primary time. Via intimate interviews and a group of never-before-seen photographs and residential films, she grapples together with her mom’s private and non-private legacy and discovers the layers and depth of who Jayne was, not solely to her viewers however to those that had been closest to her.”
My Mother Jayne will premiere on HBO and stream on Max in June.
Hargitay was solely three years outdated when Mansfield died on the age of 34, so she directed this documentary to try to get to know her mother on her personal as an grownup. If nonetheless alive at present, Mansfield would have turned 92 on April 19. It will likely be Hargitay’s directorial debut and the primary time she talks about her mother’s dying in 57 years.
The actress, alongside together with her two older brothers, survived a automobile crash that killed her mother in 1967. On the time of her dying, Mansfield was divorced from her third husband, director Matt Cimber, to whom she was married from 1964 to 1966. The couple had a son, Antonio “Tony” Cimber, in 1965. Mansfield married Mariska’s father, Miklós “Mickey” Hargitay, a former Mr. Universe, in 1958. The couple had Mickey Jr. later that 12 months and a son, Zoltan, in 1960. They divorced in Might 1963. Her first marriage to Paul Mansfield in 1950 gave her her first daughter, Jayne, the identical 12 months. They break up in 1954.
School pupil Ron Harrison sped down Freeway 90 in Louisiana at 75 mph in his silver Buick Electra, driving Mansfield and her youngsters from Biloxi, Mississippi, to New Orleans after she carried out a gig on the Gus Stevens Supper Membership. He didn’t see the truck stopped on the street within the path of their accelerating automobile as a result of it was blocked by a cloud of insecticide from a metropolis council car, which was spraying a swamp for mosquitoes.
The automobile plowed into the bar of the truck, killing Harrison, Mansfield, and her lawyer, Samuel S. Brody. Mansfield’s youngsters and her 4 chihuahuas all survived with minor accidents. Her dying modified street security. It sparked a marketing campaign that has saved many lives since. The Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration proposed new requirements calling for the addition of underride prevention guards on giant vehicles, in accordance with Dan Doyle Regulation. The requirement wasn’t put into place till 1998, nonetheless. Earlier than it was enforced, greater than 300 deaths occurred annually resulting from underride crashes.
Mansfield was a magnificence queen, a stage actress, a Playboy Playmate, and a display screen actress. A few of her greatest roles included Observe the Solar, The Woman Can’t Assist It, The Burglar, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, 1956’s The Bachelor, and extra.
My Mother Jayne, HBO, stream on Max, June 2025