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10. Jayne Mansfield

Blonde and beautiful bombshell actress Jayne Mansfield was killed in 1967 when the car in which she was riding hit the rear of a trailer truck on Interstate-90 east of New Orleans, Louisiana.

She was on her way to New Orleans from Biloxi, Mississippi, where she was performing a standing engagement at a local nightclub. She had a television appearance scheduled the following day. Ronald B. Harrison, a driver for the Gus Stevens Dinner Club, was driving her and her lawyer and companion, Samuel S. Brody, along with three of Mansfield’s children with her ex-husband Mickey Hargitay, in Stevens’ 1966 Buick Electra.

On a dark part of road, the Electra hit the trailer-truck from behind. Mansfield, Harrison and Brody were all killed instantly in the accident. Eight-year old Mickey, six-year old Zoltan and three-year old Marie, or Mariska, have been sleeping on the rear seat. They were injured but survived.

While her screen career amounted to more than a dozen poor films, off screen she played the movie star role to perfection, and also became one of the most visible glamour girls of the time.

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