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‘My Mom Jayne’ Review: Mariska Hargitay’s Emotional Journey To Discover Her Movie Star Mother And The Stunning Family Secret She Kept Hidden For 30 Years Until Now- Cannes Film Festival
A review of the HBO docu 'My Mom Jayne' premiering at Cannes and in which Mariska Hargitay goes on a journey to discover her mom, Jayne Mansfield
But before that riveting blockbuster reveal, and interviews with Nelson and his two daughters ( her up to then unknown half sisters), there is much to cover and tell including the details as tearfully remembered reluctantly and haltingly by Zoltan of that fatal car crash with their mother was on her way to performing a night club gig in Biloxi, Mississippi in June of ’67. Mansfield’s career is covered in biopic fashion for a bit from her desire to leave Pennsylvania and head to Hollywood to Playboy playmate, performer, Broadway star in the hit comedy Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, and later the film version in 1957 when she was under contract to 20th Century Fox which groomed her as their second tier version of Marilyn Monroe in movies like The Girl Can’t Help It, The Sheriff Of Fractured Jaw, and her rare dramatic role (she tried valiantly to be considered a serious actress) with another Fox contract player Joan Collins in The Wayward Bus before her short-lived major studio stardom gave way to cheaper indies with nude scenes like Promises Promises and then a nightclub act to keep her working as the lights dimmed a bit. But this film is less standard show biz bio, and more on Mariska’s effort to use the documentary format to uncover the past, to find her own place in her mother’s life, and to move on in what is essentially a journey to healing, and that includes a very happy ending that just might have you in tears.
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