Jayne Mansfield

 Jayne Mansfield, born Vera Jayne Palmer (April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967)

She was 20th Century Fox's alternative to Marilyn Monroe and came to be known as the Working Man's Monroe. She was also known for her well-publicized personal life and publicity stunts, such as wardrobe malfunctions. Mansfield became a major Broadway star in 1955, a major Hollywood star in 1956, and a leading celebrity in 1957. She was one of Hollywood's original blonde bombshells, and although many people have never seen her movies, Mansfield remains one of the most recognizable icons of 1950s celebrity culture. She died from a car accident on U.S. Hwy 90 in 1967, she was 34 years old. Reports that Mansfield was decapitated are untrue, although she suffered severe head trauma. The urban legend was spawned by the appearance in police photographs of a crashed car with its top virtually sheared off, and what resembled a blonde-haired head tangled in the car's smashed windshield. However, this was probably either a wig Mansfield was wearing or her actual hair and scalp.

She married and divorced three times and had five children, including Mariska Hargitay by then husband Mickey Hargitay. She is interred in Fairview Cemetery, southeast of Pen Argyl (PA), beside her father Herbert William Palmer. Mansfield also has a cenotaph marker at Hollywood Forever.