What Sophia Loren really saw in Jayne Mansfield's cleavage
This photograph is called the perfect embodiment of female envy. Italian movie star Sophia Loren looks with some strange feeling at the deep neckline of American actress Jayne Mansfield. But in fact, not everything is so simple. We will tell you the story of the famous photograph.
So, the photo refers to 1957, when the young Sophia Loren decided to conquer Hollywood. And she personally arrived in America in order to consider all current proposals, and take part in screen tests.
Here, the 20th Century Fox film studio arranged a chic reception in honor of the iconic Italian in one of the best restaurants in Los Angeles of that time - Romanoff.
And it all started so well...
Almost all the Hollywood stars of the 1950s came to the party on April 12, 1957. Including the seductive Jayne Mansfield!
Jayne Mansfield was considered as the main rival (or imitation) of Marilyn Monroe.
At that time, Jayne was considered as one of the main bombs of Hollywood – a possible successor to Marilyn Monroe herself.
Mansfield shone on Broadway and in the pages of Playboy magazine. And she actively attracted the attention of photojournalists. For example, somehow, as if on purpose, losing the top of a swimsuit at a pool party ...
...Jayne was very late for the dinner party. But she appeared extremely effectively - in a tight-fitting satin pink dress with that very huge neckline. She immediately went to Sophia Loren, boldly taking a seat next to her.
Jayne Mansfield – was a Hollywood Barbie with tragic fate.
But in fact, the reason here is not envy at all. Sophie herself is not deprived of a bust. The reason was different, as they say. Let's give the floor to Signora Lauren herself.
“I was afraid that her breasts would jump out of the dress, fall into my plate, and a scandal would begin”, - the Italian woman recalled already in 2015 in an interview. – “I was afraid that all her dress was booming now - and it would burst, scatter ... I would never wear such a revealing dress.”
Two of the most beautiful women of their time...
This photo has become classic. And it quickly scattered throughout the American tabloids of that era. But in more conservative Europe, especially in Italy, Jayne's photographs were simply not published without retouching...
After the famous shot with Sophia Loren, Jayne Mansfield lived another ten years. Although her film career began to decline quickly, the fashion for luxurious blondes began to disappear gradually from the beginning of the 1960s in Hollywood.
Jayne managed to star in twenty films. Including, in the 1963 film “Promises! Promises!” – the first Hollywood film in history, where the main character appears in the frame completely without any clothes on.
Our heroine died in a car accident in 1967, at the age of 37. Accidentally – due to speeding in the fog leaving five children behind.
