Mae & Mickey Hargitay

Mae West launched the entertainment career of handsome hunk Mickey Hargitay [1926-2006]. This is how he looked (right) in 1955 when he was appearing onstage with Mae West and fellow muscleman (left) Paul Novak [1923-1999].

• • • • LOS ANGELES: Mickey Hargitay, the actor and world champion bodybuilder who was married to 1950s sex siren Jayne Mansfield, and whose daughter is Emmy-winning actress Mariska Hargitay, has died in Los Angeles last week, a spokesman said. He was 80.
• • Born Miklos Hargitay in 1926, he emigrated from his native Hungary to the United States after World War II. He became interested in bodybuilding in the 1950s and was named Mr. Universe, Mr. America, and Mr. Olympia in 1955.
• • He parlayed his perfect physique into a performing career when Mae West tapped him to be one of the musclemen in her stage show: "The Mae West Revue."
• • While performing with Mae West in Las Vegas, Mickey Hargitay met Jayne Mansfield [1933-1967], whom he married in 1957.
• • Some of his films were: "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" * * "The Loves of Hercules" * * "Promises! Promises!" * * "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?"
• • Hargitay and Mansfield had three children together, including Mariska, before divorcing in 1964.
• • Arnold Schwarzenegger played Mickey Hargitay in a 1982 TV movie "The Jayne Mansfield Story."
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Mae West
• • Photo: Paul Novak, Mae West, Mickey Hargitay • • 1955 • •
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