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During this period MGM wooed her with a Pink Jaguar, a Pink Cadillac, Pink rhinestone phones and a three year supply of Pink champagne to bathe in. She still remained under contract to Fox.
After one year off the screen Jayne returned with a film titled The Sherriff of Fractured Jaw while it didn't make much of a splash in American theaters, it did not hurt her career. While filming this, she was also offered a role in a European film, The Loves of Hercules. She agreed to take the part if Mickey could play Hercules. Filming for Hercules took place early in 1960.
Although Jayne did not realize it for several years, this was the beginning to the end of a short lived film career in Hollywood. She would from here on make low-budget European films which did little to show off her comedic talents as much as her anatomy.
Fox's treatment of their starlet was validated with her succession of box office flops, the crazy stunts and their doubts about her acting ability. However, considering that she had made them a considerable amount of money with several of her films, this treatment was really inexcusable. She requested a new contract, and her requests were unheard, but she still continued to work. While filming the Loves Of Hercules she was pregnant with her son Zoltan. Within days of giving birth, she went back to work on her film.
Fox continued to loan her out for low budget European films and while filming of Too Hot To Handle, she called Fox collect, to forward the money to the studio making the film. They had halted production on it, as they couldn't even pay their actors. After this film, she hurriedly made two more European films, and high tallied it back to Hollywood.
In June of 1960 she was honored on This is Your Life, and even though she appeared in a bursting out of a playtex dress, she had the build up of a domesticated mother and wife. Jayne's love for her children was without question, but as her career began to slide and her personal situations became shaky, often her children took backseat to her surmounting problems.