WashingtonPost.com: The Kennedys in Hollywood
WashingtonPost.com: The Kennedys in Hollywood Go to Chapter One Section • Go to Book World's Review The Kennedys in Hollywood By Lawrence J. Quirk Chapter One: Clowning Around with Jayne One of Jack Kennedy's sillier romantic involvements was with Jayne Mansfield, who had staked her life and career in the 1950s--and beyond--on becoming not only the poor man's Marilyn Monroe but Everyman's answer to Marilyn Monroe. That Jayne's plans did not work out as she had hoped was due not only to the poor management and promotion of her cause but to her own self-destructive obsession with becoming an almost caricaturial Monroe.
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