Page said years later, and was divorced by his wife when Bettie was 10. The father, an auto mechanic, molested all three of his daughters, Ms. Bettie May Page was born in Jackson, Tenn., the eldest girl of Roy and Edna Page’s six children. Swanson.Ī movie, “The Notorious Bettie Page,” starring Gretchen Mol as Bettie and directed by Mary Harron for Picturehouse and HBO Films, was released in 2006, adapted from “The Real Bettie Page,” by Richard Foster. It was written by Karen Essex and James L. Hundreds of Web sites appeared, including her own, which had 588 million hits in five years, CMG Worldwide said in 2006.īiographies were published, including her authorized version, “Bettie Page: The Life of a Pin-Up Legend,” (General Publishing Group) which appeared in 1996.
Look-alike contests, featuring leather-and-lace and kitten-with-a-whip Betties, were organized. There were Bettie Page playing cards, lunch boxes, action figures, T-shirts and beach towels.
Uma Thurman, in bangs, reincarnated Bettie in Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction,” and Demi Moore, Madonna and others appeared in Page-like photos.
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David Stevens, creator of the comic-book and later movie character the Rocketeer, immortalized her as the Rocketeer’s girlfriend. Then in the late 1980s and early ’90s, she was rediscovered and a Bettie Page renaissance began. She was also a major influence in the fashion industry and a target of Senator Estes Kefauver’s anti-pornography investigators. Page was the most famous pinup girl of the post-World War II era, a centerfold on a million locker doors and garage walls. In her trademark raven bangs, spike heels and killer curves, Ms. She was transferred in a coma to Kindred Hospital, where she died. 2 when she suffered a heart attack, said Mr. Page, whose popularity underwent a cult-like revival in the last 20 years, had been hospitalized for three weeks with pneumonia and was about to be released Dec. Her death was reported by her agent, Mark Roesler, on Ms. Take a look at these stunning photos to see glamorous beauty of young Bettie Page in the 1950s.Bettie Page, a legendary pinup girl whose photographs in the nude, in bondage and in naughty-but-nice poses appeared in men’s magazines and private stashes across America in the 1950s and set the stage for the sexual revolution of the rebellious ’60s, died Thursday in Los Angeles. After years of obscurity, she experienced a resurgence of popularity in the 1980s. The latter part of Page’s life was marked by depression, violent mood swings, and several years in a state psychiatric hospital suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. In 1959, Page converted to evangelical Christianity and worked for Billy Graham, studying at Bible colleges in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, with the intent of becoming a missionary. “I think that she was a remarkable lady, an iconic figure in pop culture who influenced sexuality, taste in fashion, someone who had a tremendous impact on our society,” - said Playboy founder Hugh Hefner to the Associated Press in 2008. Page was “Miss January 1955”, one of the earliest Playmates of the Month for Playboy magazine. There, she began to find work as a pin-up model, and posed for dozens of photographers throughout the 1950s.
A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Page lived in California in her early adult years before moving to New York City to pursue work as an actress.
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