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Jayne Mansfield

Hollywood actress Jayne Mansfield, in North Carolina for a nightclub engagement in Greensboro, appeared in the pace car for the race at Orange Speedway near Hillsborough on March 10, 1963, one of the track's highlights for local residents.

Source: NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register nomination, Occoneechee Speedway (OR1542, 2002)

1933–1967 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

1 indexed work is connected with this person.

Jayne Mansfield, 1957
Jayne Mansfield, 1957

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Jock Lauterer photographic collection, circa 1964-1968.

Lauterer, Jock · 1964

Photographs made by Jock Lauterer in and around Chapel Hill from about 1964 to 1968, some 3,522 items in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Subjects include the Speaker Ban Law, Ku Klux Klan activity in North Carolina, Tar Heel basketball and football, the Jubilee festival, the Old Well, and visitors including Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Bob Hope and Jayne Mansfield.

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Life and Orange County connections

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  1. Jayne Mansfield rides in the pace car at Orange Speedway Film star Jayne Mansfield, in North Carolina for a nightclub date in Greensboro, rode in the pace car to start the 150-mile race at Orange Speedway. Orange County sheriff's deputies Will Gilmore and Avery Maddry acted as her bodyguards, and she watched from the judges' stand, signing autographs.Search the index · News of Orange County (DigitalNC): Riding shotgun for Jayne, March 14, 1963, p. 1

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Picture: Jayne Mansfield, 1957. Public domain. Photograph by Likely 20th Century Fox; www.doctormacro.com,%20Jayne/Annex/Annex%20-%20Mansfield,%20Jayne%20(Kiss%20Them%20for%20Me)_01.jpg; via Wikimedia Commons

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