Customer Reviews

Jayne Mansfield: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts)

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This book is quite disappointing... only some meager pages of biography, a handful of rather bad pictures...the rest are boring lists of records, awards etc. I expected much more of this book! I was looking for a load of info along with beautiful pictures.

This book was entirely too exspensive for the content. There was a short dissappointing biography, lists of rather meaningless things, and only a few photos. The author should be ashamed for ignoring the image of Jayne Mansfield and her loving, intelligent personality...the very things that made her famous and keeps her alive in our hearts and minds. Jayne deserves more than a high priced assemblage of paper that offers little to the reader.

I disagree with the previous reviewers of the contents of this book. There are rare Jayne pictures. However, the bio-bibliography's purpose is to give a Jayne Mansfield collector a great reference source for collecting. Jocelyn Faris did an excellent job in her research. There are countless souces for newspaper collecting, album collecting, magazine collecting, and other surprises. I for one was able to prove that a dress I bought worn by Jayne Mansfield was the real mccoy by Faris's research. The book is a great tool for your collecting on Jayne Mansfield and a must if you are a Jayne fan. It is well worth every cent you pay for the book. Enjoy, you will not be disappointed. However, if you are looking for a 100 page picture book of Jayne, then you will be.