RIP: Bettie Page
Dec. 12th, 2008 04:33 amPinup Queen Bettie Page Dead at 85
Although her body was mortal, Bettie Page's image is forever young and feisty. The 1950s-era model, whose saucy poses for publications like Beauty Parade, Twitter and an upstart rag called Playboy won her a legion of fans and a cult following long after her pinup days were over, died Thursday night at a Los Angeles hospital, nine days after suffering a heart attack. She was 85. According to her agent, Page had been hospitalized for three weeks beforehand with pneumonia. Page's trademark jet-black bangs and curvy figure—clad in slinky lingerie, bondage gear or other thematic costumes, if clad in anything at all—were fixtures on the pages of men's magazines from 1951 to...
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0626646/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Page
I always wanted to see the biopic movie that they made about her. Quite an infamous life that she led and cult following that she had.
Although her body was mortal, Bettie Page's image is forever young and feisty. The 1950s-era model, whose saucy poses for publications like Beauty Parade, Twitter and an upstart rag called Playboy won her a legion of fans and a cult following long after her pinup days were over, died Thursday night at a Los Angeles hospital, nine days after suffering a heart attack. She was 85. According to her agent, Page had been hospitalized for three weeks beforehand with pneumonia. Page's trademark jet-black bangs and curvy figure—clad in slinky lingerie, bondage gear or other thematic costumes, if clad in anything at all—were fixtures on the pages of men's magazines from 1951 to...
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0626646/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Page
I always wanted to see the biopic movie that they made about her. Quite an infamous life that she led and cult following that she had.