![]() ![]() These low-budget movies are both better than their reputation would have you believe, but they were not ‘A’ pictures and this was the start of a career decline – at least if you look at it in terms of mainstream Hollywood productions, which now became a thing of the past. That year, 20th Century Fox – who had her under contract – sent her to England to shoot a pair of crime movies, The Challenge and Too Hot to Handle, an early sign that the company no longer saw her as a big star and the replacement for Marilyn Monroe that they had hoped she would become. In 1959, she was still at the height of her fame – this was a couple of years after The Girl Can’t Help It and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, and while her career had already peaked and was quickly heading downhill, she was still seen as the very definition of a sex symbol and major Hollywood star by most people. ![]() ![]() We’ve previously reported on the unlikely appearance of Jayne Mansfield at Yorkshire’s Batley Variety Club, just months before her tragic death, but this wasn’t her first brush with the bright lights and glamour of Northern England. Hollywood’s greatest sex symbol puts some va-va-voom into the British seaside resort’s illuminations in 1959. ![]()
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