Single Room Furnished (1968)

In her last performance Mansfield portrays an innocent voluptuous teenager who becomes a deserted pregnant wife a waitress and a demented street-walker stretching her acting ability to the breaking point. This film also includes a side plot featuring a love story between two neighbors and an introduction and tribute to Mansfield from legendary columnist Walter Winchell.System Requirements:Running Time: 99 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR UPC: 603497600823 Manufacturer No: 976008 Product Description

Single Room Furnished

Journalist heavyweight, Walter Winchell introduces this movie as if it were the greatest thing ever put to film. Rubbish. This is dreadful and dismal junk with everyone involved incessantly droning on about the horrors of human loneliness. If it doesn't anger you, it will certainly cure your insomnia or simply bore you to tears. Mansfield's attempts at a serious role are laughable. Dreary. Released post mortem.
September 27, 2008

Not Bad Film

It's nice to see Jayne Mansfield in a dramatic role. This is an indie film made before the term "indie film" was coined.
Jayne is too old to play the young married woman on the fire escape, in the early part of the story. She looks like her husband's mother. However, her acting is very good in this film. Some of the supporting players are not very good while others are quite good.
This is a very low budget film and it really looks it.
I don't know if it has been digitally restored but the sound and picture are of very good quality.
If you are a Jayne Mansfield fan, it is very worthwhile having this film in your collection. January 20, 2008

Jayne Mansfield's Last movie was an Art Film !

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 June 3, 2006

Jayne's Last Movie

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. December 29, 2005

Jayne proved to her disbelievers that she could act!

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. February 17, 2005

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