Mariska Hargitay has only the most vague memories of her mother, Jayne Mansfield, who died in a car accident in 1967 when Hargitay was 3 years old.
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At the very beginning of My mom Jayne, The producer and director, Mariska Hargitay, exhibits the basic facts, as she knows them, about her parents, her brothers and sisters and her early childhood.
Hargitay has only the most vague memories of his mother, Jayne Mansfield, the movie star in sex symbol who died in a car accident of 1967, at 34, when Hargitay, one of his mother’s five children, was only 3 years old. Hargitay was raised by his father, who was also a celebrity of the 1950s: he was in Mickey Hargitay, a former mid-universe universe … and the only Marka parent.
A method used by Hargitay to unlock her family secrets is to do the research she had previously avoided. She reads biographies and articles from Celebrity magazine, and collects so many apparitions on existing television and cinema, and has recorded interviews.
Mansfield grew up in Texas, played the classic piano and the violin and spoke several languages. She married Young and convinced her husband of the time to move with her in Los Angeles, to continue her dream of a career in show business. It did not last long, and either their marriage either. But Mansfield persisted – although his plans to be a serious actor were affected by the way some people responded to his appearance, and especially his very winding figure.
In 1955, when she was only 22 years old, Mansfield became a feeling of Broadway as a comedy comedy co-star Will success spoil the rock hunter? The cinema roles followed quickly: first as the sexy star of the first rock and roll film The girl cannot help her, which also presented the little Richard and Fats Domino, then in the cinematographic version of Will success spoil the rock hunter? Groucho Marx was also in this film, which welcomed Mansfield in his television program, Say it in Groucho. At that time, she was trying to shake her image of a sexual symbol – even if her strongest supporters could not resist perpetuating it.
My mom Jayne is just as careful about looking for Mickey Hargitay’s past, and how he and Mansfield met and fell in love. But after having deepened the public record for films, television clips and vintage interviews, Mariska Hargitay takes an even deeper dive in the private record. She interviews her brothers and sisters, who share detailed memories with her for the first time – and who are invaluable contributors as sources and characters supporting the camera.
Hargitay also examines the vast content of a family storage locker which has not been open since 1969. And as the determined detective on which she played Law and order: Unit of special victims Since 1999, Hargitay has been following the clues wherever they lead. These clues include faces cut out in family photographs and stories about this fatal car accident – which, it turns out, survived by the children of the car, including the young Mariska. At the end of this documentary, the information she discovered upset and rewrite a large part of what Hargitay knew about her parents and herself.
The first half of My mom Jayne is a well -made biography somewhat standard, but the second half moves towards a mystery and emotional mystery story. Finally, there are a lot of hugs, and a lot of closure … And each piece arrived honestly. As a first documentary filmmaker, Hargitay did something special here. But as a girl, telling the unhappy truth about her parents, she did something more impressive.
