She came out of Phillipsburg in Warren County, found fame as a Hollywood bombshell, recorded a few albums as a singer, married a famous bodybuilder, and was the mother of Mariska Hargitay of NBC-TV’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (whose documentary, My Mom Jayne, aired on HBO.) Fulfilling the dictates of the “dumb blonde” for cinematic purposes, she actually was quite genius, fluent in French, Spanish, German and Italian. On The Ed Sullivan Show in 1957, she performed a Vivaldi concerto on violin. She was also a high-skilled classical pianist and played the viola. When her movie career fizzled in the ‘60s, she became a highly sought-after nightclub entertainer singing and, with her natural flair for comedy, doing stand-up.