Happy Birthday Eleanor Donahue, Jayne Mansfield, Dudley Moore and Constance Talmadge.
I decided to watch Too Hot To Handle to celebrate Jayne Mansfield’s birthday. Jayne plays an entertainer Midnight (nicknamed 12 o’clock) at a London club Pink Flamingo. When performing she is a tantalizing enchantress with a baby like voice with a lot of skin showing in the costumes. When not entertaining she is a smart woman with a husky voice.
It is a strip club but there is very little stripping. It is more of what I would classify as exotic dancing. Skimpy costumes and dancing. There are a couple of costumes I am not sure how they stayed on. The music during the performances was very circus/carnival up beat music. The music during other times was very soft and melodramatic. Ian Fleming has a credit. I don’t know if I have ever seen a picture of him and could not figure out who he was.
Jayne is in love with the night club owner Solo. He gets caught up in an insurance scam and gets beaten up and the club ransacked. He finds out who has done this and beats up the leader. He finds out his assistant is involved with the scam and intends to take care of him. He hired a dancer, aged 16. He hooks the girl up with a patron who takes her back to his apartment. He comes on very strong and she resists. He ends up killing her. The police come to the club. Only one of the dancers will tell the truth about the girl. Jayne realizes that Solo was going to kill his assistant and possibly get killed himself that she decides to tell the police everything. As Solo is taken out by the police he takes off his carnation and throws it on the ground. I don’t quite get that but it must be a sign. As Jayne turns off the lights she sees the carnation on the ground. She picks it up and puts it up to her lips as she cries and leaves the club.
Jayne was probably more known for her curves but she has acting talent. She knows what the audience wants and gives it to them.
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