Jayne Mansfield 1963 she studied Italian. Reputed to be Hollywood's "smartest dumb blonde", she later complained that the public did not care about her brains saying: "They're more interested in 40–21–35." A natural brunette, Mansfield had her hair bleached, and colored platinum blonde when she moved to Los Angeles, and became one of the early "blonde bombshells", along with Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and Mamie Van Doren. In 1958, she also had her eyebrows dyed platinum. Following Jean Harlow (who started the trend with her film "Bombshell"), Monroe, Mansfield, Van Doren and Diana Dors helped establish the stereotype typified by a combination
French corvette Blonde (1781) French corvette Blonde (1781) Blonde was a "Coquette"-class corvette of the French Navy, launched in 1781. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1793 and sold her in 1794, without apparently ever actually having taken her into service. Mercantile interests purchased her and initially named her "Prince", but then renamed her "Princess". She became a whaler until a French privateer captured her in 1796 during "Princess"s first whaling voyage. The eight "Coquette"-class corvettes were built to a design by Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb. "Blonde" had a refit in 1783, when she was not coppered but had four 4-pounders added to her armament.