JAYNE MANSFIELD JOAN COLLINS The WAYWARD BUS Original WINDOW CARD POSTER 1957

This is an ORIGINAL Window Card Movie Poster measuring 14” x 22” withsome aging tape on the back and aging of paper. This original Poster is OVER55 years old. It was used to promote the Twentieth Century Fox Cinemascope 1957 Drama,The Wayward Bus Alice Chicoy (Collins) is the wife of driver Johnny (Jason). He owns a small and rundown little bus that makes side trips. Alice is the owner of a little restaurant and likes liquor a bit too much.Unhappy with what has become of her life, she decides to "surprise" her husband mid-way through his bus trip. Among the passengers, Camille Oakes (Mansfield) is a shamed burlesque dancer on the way to a well-paying job in San Juan. Camille gets caught up in a flirtation with traveling salesman Ernest Horton (Dailey).Most of the story takes place on the charter bus. Slowly making their way through a treacherous California mountain region, the passengers undergo a variety of life-altering experiences. The journey has its most profound effects upon the iconoclastic salesman and the lonely stripper.Director:Victor Vicas Writers:Ivan Moffat, John Steinbeck (novel) Stars:Joan Collins, Jayne Mansfield, Dan Dailey Cast Joan Collins ... Alice Chicoy Jayne Mansfield ... Camille Oakes Dan Dailey ... Ernest Horton Rick Jason ... Johnny Chicoy Betty Lou Keim ... Norma , the counter girl Dolores Michaels ... Mildred Pritchard Larry Keating ... Elliott Pritchard Robert Bray ... Morse Kathryn Givney ... Mrs. Elliott (Bernice) Pritchard Dee Pollack ... Ed 'Pimples' Carson Will Wright ... Van Brunt These window cards had a place on top to write what was coming soon….They were used in theatres that could not hold large size movie posters. This one is a nice colorful example if you liked this film or Adventure dramas.Shop with confidence! This is part of our in-store inventory from our shop which is has been located in the heart of Hollywood where we have been in business for OVER40 years!MORE INFO ON JAYNE MANSFIELD: Jayne Mansfield burst on the Hollywood scene like a rocket in 1955. One of the biggest sex symbol stars of the 1950s and 1960s, Jayne was second only to Marilyn Monroe and personified the era of the Blonde Bombshell. Known for her love of children and animals, Jayne also possessed an IQ of 163 and was known as one of the most friendliest, as well as publicity loving, stars of the era. She was one of the first sex symbols to ever own a sexual image as well as have a family. She was the first American motion picture actress to ever appear nude in a legitimate major motion picture. Known for having one of the most sensational hourglass figures ever. 40D-17-36.Jayne married Paul Mansfield at the age of 16 and by 17 she was a mother. She and Paul and baby Jayne Marie moved to California in early 1954 where Jayne set out with one goal: to become a movie star. She was a brunette at the time and upon meeting Milton Lewis, a Paramount executive, she was told she was wasting her "obvious talents" and should go blonde. She did. Though nothing panned out at Paramount, she did manage to film a featured role in an independent film called _Female Jungle (1954)_. The film would not be officially released until 1957 to capitalize on Jayne's then super-stardom. After "Female Jungle", Jayne became a contract player at Warner Brothers and landed a small but sexy role in the Jack Webb/Peggy Lee drama Pete Kelly's Blues (1955). By this time, Paul Mansfield had become tired of Jayne's ambition and went back to Texas (where Jayne had moved as a child when she was 6) and from here on out it was Jayne and Jayne Marie. Jayne filmed a very small role in the Alan Ladd drama Hell on Frisco Bay (1955). Finally, it seemed Jayne hit pay dirt when she filmed a featured and major role in the Edward G. Robinson courtroom drama Illegal (1955). Jayne stole the show and even got her name on a few marquees and received good notices as well. Yet, Warner Brothers at this time dropped her contract... something they would regret. While in Pennsylvania in the summer of 1955 to film another indie called The Burglar (1957), Jayne auditioned for a Broadway play called "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?". The role called for a beautiful blonde sex symbol and she fitted the bill. Jayne landed the role and overnight a media and public sensation was born. Once seen as a "threat" to Marilyn Monroe, Jayne already proved herself as a hot commodity and gained respect as a legitimate Broadway actress and was no longer a threat but a proven force. 20th Century Fox, also Marilyn Monroe's studio, bought the play just to get Jayne. Returning to Hollywood, along with beau Mickey Hargitay (a sex symbol in his own right as a former Mr. Universe), Jayne filmed three back to back hits, The Girl Can't Help It (1956), The Wayward Bus (1957), and the film version of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957). She rounded out the year of 1957 with Kiss Them for Me (1957), co-starring Cary Grant. While "Kiss Them For Me" was not the blockbuster it was meant to be, Jayne realized one of her dreams by working with Cary Grant who she adored as a child. Grant was quoted as saying of Jayne, "A potential Mae West". Jayne received the honor of being the most photographed woman of 1957 and while Monroe's career waned after the box office disappointment of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), Jayne's prospered. She won a 1957 Golden Globe as Most Promising Female Newcomer.Jayne and Hargitay married in a lavish, huge wedding on January 13, 1958. A month later Jayne and Mickey performed in a spectacular Vegas show where Jayne received $25,000 per week, becoming one of the most highly paid entertainers of that era. She moved into a lavish pink mansion once owned by Rudy Vallee. That same year, Jayne filmed what many fans agree to be one of her shining moments, a western called The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958). Jayne proved herself a capable comedic actress. She continued work at Fox though it seemed they were at a loss with what to do with this extravagant star. Brassy, wild, and in no need of a press agent, Fox just didn't know how to promote her as Jayne did plenty of promoting herself. They began loaning her out for which they received a quarter of a million dollars while Jayne only received her weekly salary.Jayne and Mickey had their first child together in 1958. In all, Jayne gave birth to 5 children: Jayne Marie born in 1950, Mickey Jr., born in 1958, Zoltan born in 1960, Mariska born in 1964 and Tony born in 1965. Tony was the offspring of Jayne's union with her third and final husband, Matt Cimber (Mickey and Jayne divorced in 1964).After the death of Marilyn Monroe, interest in the blonde bombshells began fading. But the public still loved Jayne. They came out in droves to see her plays, nightclub acts, store appearances, and even her home. Though her film career began to appear to have fallen out of favor in the mid-1960s, Jayne still commanded a weekly salary of $8,000-25,000 per week for her nightclub act and she traveled all over the world with it. She was as one fan puts it, "The Madonna of the 1960s".En route to New Orleans for a talk show appearance, Jayne and then companion Sam Brody, driver Ronnie Harrison, and 3 of her children slammed into the back of a tractor trailer truck early in the morning of June 29, 1967. The children, asleep in the backseat of the car, survived while all three passengers up front, Jayne, Sam, and driver Ronnie were instantly killed. The impact of the crash so was severe that Jayne was virtually scalped. A picture of the accident site falsely created a rumor that Jayne had been decapitated when what appeared to be her head was laying on the dash. In fact, what was on the dash was one of many blonde wigs that Jayne had been wearing at that time.Jayne is remembered as an icon of the 1950s. A symbol of "sex on the rocks" as Life Magazine put it... as well as an actress, a loving mother, and a true star.MORE INFO ON JOAN COLLINS: Joan Henrietta Collins, OBE (born 23 May 1933) is an English actress, author, and columnist.Collins was born in Paddington, London, the daughter of Elsa (née Bessant), a dance teacher and nightclub hostess, and Joseph William Collins, an agent whose clients would later include Shirley Bassey, The Beatles and Tom Jones. Collins' South African-born father was Jewish and her British mother was Anglican. She has one sister, the author Jackie Collins, nd a brother, Bill Collins. Collins was educated at the Francis Holland School and then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).Collins's childhood was spent in and around Maida Vale and was, according to Collins, an idyllic one with plenty of love, comfort and security. Her father, however, was also a strict disciplinarian and exerted a strong hold over her gentle mother, an attitude which came to irritate her daughters who sought to rebel against it. Collins has said of her father that "He was detached, cold, hard, critical, difficult, acerbic and everyone had to please him."He said himself in his 1986 autobiography, A Touch of Collins: "I love my daughters but I am not the kind of parent who deludes himself that his children are superior to everyone else's. I did not think of them as particularly outstanding in any way."At the age of 17, Collins was signed to the J. Arthur Rank Film Company, a highly profitable British studio.In 1951, she made her feature debut as a beauty contest entrant in Lady Godiva Rides Again, and in 1952, she made her film debut in I Believe in You, which was based on the book Court Circular by Sewell Stokes. She was next signed by 20th Century Fox in 1954 as their answer to MGM's Elizabeth Taylor. According to a September 11, 1954 article in Picture Post, Collins was frustrated by her time at Rank. Collins told the popular Hulton Press Weekly, "They’re always carrying on about there being no women of star material in England. They don’t bother to build us up. They concentrate on building the men.