Femina Prize 2011

"In the early hours of June 29, 1967, on a stretch of U.S. Highway 90 that connects the city of Biloxi to New Orleans, a metallic blue '66 Buick Electra 225 was involved in a fatal collision."

Inside that crushed Buick was a woman, a "Hollywood movie star" thirty-four year old, nude dancer in Las Vegas, very famous sex symbol from the 50s.
Simon Liberait resurrects Jayne Mansfield, the world's most photographed underdog actress, lovingly delves into the darkest corners of her life, and retraces her final hours in the middle of the hippie summer, which also mark the twilight of Hollywood's golden age. On the agenda: pouf wigs, LSD 26, Satanism, chihuahuas, hard-hitting lovers, a deranged life, a James Dean-style death, five orphaned children, and a leap into the underground.
A funeral oration and morbid chic in the direct line of Truman Capote and Kenneth Anger.