Jayne Mansfield

Marilyn Monroe may have passed a few years earlier under still cloudy circumstances but her chief rival in the blonde star department, Jayne Mansfield, mother of Mariska Hargitay, remained a viable sex symbol even though her career was waning. Seen here is her March, '66 cover of MODERN MAN, a magazine she had adorned a number of times over the previous decade. Tragically, her life, too, was to be cut short the following year.