A Starlet Is Born
On April 19, 1933, Vera Jane Palmer was welcomed into the world in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She was the adored only child of Herbert and Vera Palmer. No, that Jane is not a typo. The star’s legal middle name is Jane, but for some reason, her parents added a “y” to it sometime after 1940, when she was still a young girl.
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On Christmas Eve 1949, teenaged Jayne went to a holiday party where she met Paul Mansfield, a good-looking man about three years older than she was. The two stunners were popular in their class, and it seemed like a match made in high school heaven.