Monday, December 15, 2008

RIP: Bettie Page, Naughty Pin-Up Queen

Via Avedon, yesterday, comes word that Bettie Page has died, last week, at age 85. From the LA Times Obit:
Bettie Page, the brunet pinup queen with a shoulder-length pageboy hairdo and kitschy bangs whose saucy photos helped usher in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, has died. She was 85.

Page, whose later life was marked by depression, violent mood swings and several years in a state mental institution, died Thursday night at Kindred Hospital in Los Angeles, where she had been on life support since suffering a heart attack Dec. 2, according to her agent, Mark Roesler.

A cult figure, Page was most famous for the estimated 20,000 4-by-5-inch black-and-white glossy photographs taken by amateur shutterbugs from 1949 to 1957. The photos showed her in high heels and bikinis or negligees, bondage apparel -- or nothing at all.
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According to her agents at CMG Worldwide, Page's official website, www.BettiePage.com, has received about 600 million hits over the last five years.
I couldn't guarantee it, but Bettie was probably one of my first masturbatory fantasy figures as a teen in the early '60s. She was hot.

1 comment:

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