Single Room Furnished

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Jayne Mansfield's Last movie was an Art Film !.......2006-06-03

After watching about 20 times (I have been a Jayne Mansfield fan since 1977),i have studied it enough to make the claim that this is (in my opinion) an Art-Film.
First of all it starts with great credits and music.The Walter Winchell introduction is just about as eery as Bela Lugosi's in Ed Wood's 'Glen Or Glenda'.The film is VERY obviously a puzzle pieced together,to make a movie(and a fast buck for her last husband,who did not have the courage to put his real name in the credits) that would have some sense,since Jayne had not finished her scenes.However,it is surprisingly coherent,even if the subplot with the 2 loser-lovers finding love ends up sounding preachy and moralistic,if compared to the mess Jayne's character has made of her life.It takes a couple of viewing of the movie to get over the cheap sets,the horrible wigs(mostly first AND second) Jayne wears.I find the first part when we see Jayne,very average.The second part,when she is in family way,REALLY bad (but also sad in a pathetic way),but the BEST is the last scene with the sailor.Miss Thing was bitter there,real bitter,and my little finger,and years of research,lead me to think that this was the REAL Jayne speaking there(that was 1966,a year before her death).She had it with Hollywood,the mockeries,the crappy movies she was offered,the bad jokes,the dead-beat husbands/lovers,and life in general.She knew she was doomed,finished,and it shows in her eyes as she is playing that last scene.AND THE BEST is when she open her eyes wide and says...''Love you ?? MONKEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY'.I have watched that scene about 50 times,finding it so powerful,and fierce !.The cheapness of the sets make the film look like a play,which is good thing(All the scenes with Jayne,basically).Also as one reviewer stated the quality of this DVD is much better than the lower quality VHS that i also have watched.
Conclusion:Jayne was NEVER an actress,but a personality.She played herself in every movie she appeared,but this time she is fed up with the Battle to be the 'Super-Monroe' that she was groomed to be,and it is an appropriate ''LAST FILM''.
So to non-fans of Jayne,it is an awful movie,but to her loyal fans,it is almost an autobiographical statement of how she really felt at the end of her sad life.Very sad

Jayne's Last Movie.......2005-12-29

Movie was released after Ms. Mansfield's death in 1968. Jayne's last husband Matt Cimber directs the movie. Jayne looks young in the opening scene as a young girl who is soon deserted by her husband. Then, she darkens her hair and becomes pregnant and later one assumes she aborts the baby. Then, we are left with a boring segment about a late middle-aged couple who are trying to date. Movie was not completed when Jayne died, so I guess this was thrown in to piece movie together, boring. Lastly, we see Jayne as a mentally unbalanced prostitute who drives another unbalanced guy to suicide. Favorite line by Jayne in movie "Monkey" Even though, this is a low budget movie, it is a great final movie of Jayne's. I would give movie more stars if it had better quality of co-stars and better budget.

Jayne proved to her disbelievers that she could act!.......2005-02-17

Single Room Furnished was, as everyone knows, Jayne's last completed film before her untimely death. Jayne plays three characters of a struggling misfit that never was given a fair chance in life. Until the end is revealed, movie goers find that her characters were describing one lady all along. " Eileen " was a mystery to anyone that knew her and her world was in a dark place never to find happiness.
Being a " Mansfield Fan", I truly was questioning my purchase of the film because of her outstanding performances given to The Girl Can't Help It and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?....Now looking back over them all, it was evident that Jayne was a very
good actress and even though the film was low budget, she truly shined in this film. Give it a chance and you will see what I mean. Jayne could have been so much more and she proves it in this film.

WARNING: Mansfiled is HARDLY IN this movie!.......2002-12-22

I bought this movie because of the description. I thought it would be a tale of an envious neighbor who is jealous of idol Jayne Mansfield. A fun, yummy script full of wit and fashion. Someone had said it is what "Single White Female" had been based on. NOT EVEN!

What I found was you need an attention span longer than the great wall of china if you want to have a chance at enjoying this movie. That and you shouldn't be a fan of Mansfield, since she is hardly IN IT! The only good scene is the end, and then surprisingly, just when it gets half-good, it stops. It ends.

In one word: BORING
In one phrase: The description (on the cover) is OVERRATED.

Excellent quality DVD!.......2001-12-16

There is something poignant about watching Jayne Mansfield in her last film role. There is also something prophetic as well, for Jayne Mansfield would never be remembered as a Grande Dame of screen dramatics. Perhaps her admirable attempt coupled with the reality of her untimely passing make watching her performance even more fascinating. What Mansfield brings to this role is a mixed bag of hysterics and brood. But we never forget, not even during a dramatic scene in which Mansfield (with shabby Bronx accent) admits to being "in the family way", that we are watching an icon of a bygone era attempting to inhabit the skin of something "mod". SINGLE ROOM FURNISHED almost plays like a cautionary tale for the bombshells of the future. Yet that was surely not the original intent.

I first saw this picture decades ago on home video. The source for that video was so faded and tattered. For years I recalled the "faded glory" aspect of the print. Watching this wonderful DVD master was eye-opening. The colors are beautiful and the widescreen presentation shows little to no wear from the source print (except for the dates soundtrack which is the weak link here). An absolutely stellar remastering on the video level. Watching SINGLE ROOM FURNISHED 2 decades later was a revelation to me and a delight. But in the final analysis, this low-budger affair is far from perfect. But perhaps that is the essence of Jayne Mansfield's legacy.

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