For a good portion of Mariska Hargitay ’s life, strangers knew more about her mother than she did. So it’s fitting that when Hargitay first appears onscreen in My Mom Jayne , her exquisite and gripping documentary, she’s surrounded by demolition-site rubble, the remains of the Sunset Boulevard mansion that was her first childhood home. The film she’s made traces a years-long process of excavation, sifting through not just movie-star memorabilia but Hargitay’s conflicted feelings about Jayne Mansfield , the blond bombshell who was a mother of five when she died in a horrendous car crash at 34.

For a good portion of Mariska Hargitay ’s life, strangers knew more about her mother than she did. So it’s fitting that when Hargitay first appears onscreen in My Mom Jayne , her exquisite

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