After a June 28, 1967 evening engagement, actress Jayne Mansfield and the occupants of her car were traveling down a winding, narrow stretch of US Hwy 90 in rural Louisiana when the car would plow into the back of a stopped big rig. By her own account, the only title she refused was Miss Roquefort Cheese, because she believed it "just didn't sound right". She was in a series of nude scenes, which were replayed in dream sequences in the film Promises, Promises. Columbia Pictures offered her a part opposite James Stewart and Jack Lemmon in the romantic comedy Bell, Book and Candle (1958), but she turned it down because she was pregnant.

On February 14, 2006, VCI Video released the film on DVD with extras such as original trailers and a gallery of stills from the Playboy issue along with never before released lobby cards.

Debris from the Jayne Mansfield Crash scene, including one of her 4 chihuahuas that were along for the ride, and what appears to be a fairly sizeable bottle of whiskey (as well as blood stains on the side of the car. After two appearances on the evening of June 28, Mansfield, Sam Brody (her attorney and companion), their driver Ronnie Harrison (age 20), and three of her children – Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska – left Biloxi (Mississippi) after midnight in a 1966 Buick Electra 225.

After her death, truck manufacturers started installing extensions on semi-trailers, coined “Mansfield bars. The February 1955 cover is hilariously unprovocative, but Mansfield’s photos certainly made up for that.were used in a series of photographs that were published in a Playboy pictorial (titled The Nudest Jayne Mansfield). Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions.