- She received her final film role in the horror slasher The Ice House (1969), as the go-go dancing victim Venus De Marco - via tragic circumstances. As announced in Variety (on May 31, 1967), Jayne Mansfield had just signed to star in the movie, with filming slated to begin in July in Mexico. Mansfield was killed in a car crash on the outskirts of New Orleans in the wee hours of June 29, 1967.
- In 1957, her 41-inch breasts were insured for £125,000.
- In 1954, her accent was changed with the help of an elocution teacher and her agent invented the story that she was born in Wales.
- Her family moved to Blackpool in 1949, where she acquired a strong Lancashire accent.
- Touted as Britain's answer to Marilyn Monroe.
- The daughter of an engineer, Walter Sykes, and a seamstress, Annie (née Haslam).
- Attended St. George's School in Heaviley, Cheshire from 1940-1949, where she won several medals for swimming.
- Retired, North Hollywood (West Toluca Lake) (May 2003)
- Suffered from chronic back problems through her adult life and had several unsuccessful operations. Latterly, she became a paraplegic.
- She was the Sabrina referred to in The Goon Show.
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