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Stills We Love: Bloody Pit Of Horror

20 September 2011 7:35 PM, PDT | Trailers from Hell | See recent Trailers from Hell news »

What’s at the bottom of a Bloody Pit of Horror? Let’s find out!

Just look at this:

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Well, you can’t get more basic than this still!

Jayne Mansfield’s bodybuilder ex-hubby Mickey Hargitay is popping his musculature to put the screws to a luckless Italian actress in his role as The Crimson Executioner (ineffably retitled Bloody Pit of Horror for more discerning Us audiences when it was barely released in 1967).  Mansfield was to have co-starred, but the pair divorced before the movie began shooting in 1965.

Hargitay, whose 1957 film debut was with his wife in Frank Tashlin’s Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter, co-starred with Mansfield inThe Loves of Hercules, Promises Promises and Primitive Love. A few spaghetti westerns and Lady Frankenstein didn’t do much for his career, but today a popular nursery called Mickey Hargitay’s Plants still haunts the corner of Fountain and Sycamore Avenues in Hollywood. »

- Danny

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'Law & Order: Svu's Mariska Hargitay Suing Talent Agency

29 April 2011 1:58 PM, PDT | Filmology | See recent Filmology news »

For the last 12 years, actress Mariska Hargitay's bread and butter has been playing the empathetic Detective Olivia Benson on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. (My mom calls her "Olivia," like, in real life.) In those years, the daughter of Mickey Hargitay and Jayne Mansfield learned from her celebrity parents the importance of keeping her private life out of the press, and has done such, basically. Until now?

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- Anna Breslaw

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Celebrity Birthdays: How old is Mariska Hargitay?

23 January 2011 1:01 PM, PST | Green Celebrity | See recent Green Celebrity news »

Celebrity Birthday News! Celebrity actress Mariska Hargity of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is celebrating a birthday today, can you answer the question: How old is Markisa Hargitay? – Celebrity actress Mariska Hargitay is celebrating a milestone today: her birthday! The actress who has starred for twelve seasons as Detective Olivia Benson on the successful NBC series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, is 47 years old today, thus answering the question how old is Mariska Hargitay! [Jan. 23] Who Is Mariska Hargitay? Mariska Hargitay was born on January 23, 1964 to parents Mickey Hargitay, former celebrity bodybuilder, and Jayne Mansfield, former celebrity actress. Mariska Hargitay is the daughter of former celebrity actress and 1950s sex symbol Jayne Mansfield, who died in a horrific car crash in 1967 in Louisiana with daughter Mariska Hargitay in the back seat with her two brothers at the time. All three children, including Mariska Hargitay, escaped relatively unharmed, but Jayne Mansfield died in the crash. »

- Doug Mead

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