My Mom Jayne (2025)
Starring Jayne Mansfield, Mariska Hargitay, Jayne Marie Mansfield, Mickey Hargitay Jr., Zoltan Hargitay, Tony Cimber, Ellen Hargitay, Rusty Strait, Nelson Sardelli, Peter Hermann, Mickey Hargitay
IHBM8
IMDb8.3
RT100%
Trakt83%
TMDb8.0Very good
Through deeply personal interviews with her siblings and an examination of the photographs, letters, and belongings left behind, Mariska assembles a new portrait of her mother Jayne Mansfield, an extraordinary and complex woman.
My review · Reviewed 07/11/2025
I almost turned this off twenty minutes in, and I am so glad that I didn't. It wasn't that I thought it was bad - I just wasn't up for what seemed like it was going to be a family retrospective. Wow! What a story. I thought Ms. Hargitay did an incredible job telling it, especially an incredible final thirty minutes. What probably doesn't get enough discussion is the way that Mansfield was treated by Jack Paar and anyone else that could not stop objectifying her. Like so many other things in this doc, it was heartbreaking to see.