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21 de abr. de 2023 · In honor of what would've been Bettie Page's 100th birthday on April 22, 2023, we're taking a look back at 20 of the most stunning photos of the notorious 1950s pin-up girl — who died at 85...
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Bettie Page was an iconic American model who gained popularity for her influential pin-up photos during the 1950s. She was widely celebrated as the “Queen of Pin-ups,” and her distinctive features included jet-black hair, blue eyes, and a signature bangs hairstyle.
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Betty Mae Page, who in childhood began spelling her first name "Bettie", was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1923, the second of six children to Walter Roy Page (1896–1964) and Edna Mae Pirtle (1901–1986). During her early years, the Page family traveled around the country in search of economic stability. At a young age, she had to face the respon...
Discovery and early work
In late 1947, Page moved to New York City, where she hoped to find work as an actress. She supported herself by working a secretarial job at the American Bread Company, near Penn Station. Within days she became the victim of a sexual assault by a group of men, and retreated home to Nashville, where she briefly worked for the L & N Railroad. Within weeks, she returned to New York, becoming secretary to a real-estate developer and an insurance broker who shared offices in the Eastern Airlines B...
Early 1950s to 1957: Irving Klaw; film work
From late 1951 or early 1952 through 1957, she posed for photographer Irving Klaw for mail-order photographs with pin-up and BDSM themes, making her the first famous bondage model. Klaw also used Page in several short, black-and-white 8mm and 16mm "specialty" films, which catered to specific requests from his clientele. These silent one-reel featurettes showed women clad in lingerie and high heels, acting out fetishistic scenarios of abduction, domination, and slave-training; bondage, spankin...
1958–92: Retirement; departure from spotlight
The reasons reported for Page's departure from modeling vary. Some reports[which?] mention the Kefauver Hearings of the United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce as a potential reason, after a young man apparently died during a session of bondage which was rumored to be inspired by images featuring Page. After leaving modeling, Page converted to Christianity and became a born again evangelist on December 31, 1959, while living in Key West, Florida. She...
In the 1950s, artists Gene Bilbrew and Eric Stanton were among the first to paint Bettie images. In 1979, artist Robert Blue had a show titled Steps Into Space, at a gallery on Melrose Place in Los Angeles, where he showed his collection of Bettie Page paintings. At that time in New York, Olivia De Berardinis had begun painting Bettie for Italian j...
According to long-time friend and business agent Mark Roesler, Page was hospitalized in critical condition on December 6, 2008. Roesler was quoted by the Associated Press as saying Page had a heart attack and by Los Angeles television station KNBC as claiming Page had pneumonia.Her family eventually agreed to discontinue life support, and she died ...
In 2004, Cult Epics produced the direct-to-DVD biographical film Bettie Page: Dark Angel. Centering on the 1953–1957 Irving Klaw period, it recreates six lost fetish films she did for Klaw. Model Paige Richards plays the title role. The Notorious Bettie Page (2005) follows her life from the mid-1930s through the late 1950s. It stars Gretchen Molas ...
Fashion and visual art
1. For its Polynesian-inspired Spring-Summer 2011 ready-to-wear collection, French fashion house Christian Diorstyled the hair of its models with Bettie Page as inspiration. 2. In Seattle, Washington, a homeowner became the subject of a short-lived controversy when he had an artist friend paint a large mural of Page on the side of his home. The mural is visible from Interstate 5, just south of the 65th Street exit. In 2016, the mural was vandalized, leading to a restoration and the addition o...
Film
1. The BD-3000 luxury droid in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith(2005) was inspired by Bettie Page. 2. In Quentin Tarantino's 2007 film Death Proof, Rosario Dawsonpays homage to Page with her iconic haircut.
Comics
1. In 1966, comic book writer Robert Kanigher and artist Sheldon Moldoff created DC Comics character Poison Ivy, basing her appearance on Page, including her signature bangs. The DC Comics Bombshellsline of figurines launched in 2011 modeled Poison Ivy's look on Page's pin-up appearances. 2. In Mickey Spillane's Mike Danger, a comic book series published by Tekno Comixand BIG Entertainment from September 1995 to April 1997, the artist's image of Holly, Mike Danger's assistant was influenced i...
Irving Klaw Bondage Classics Volume I (London Enterprises 1984)[citation needed]Eric Stanton & the History of the Bizarre Underground by Richard Pérez Seves. Atglen: Schiffer Publishing, 2018. ISBN 978-0764355424
Mitchell, Tony (2018). "Eric Stanton and the History of the Bizarre Underground". The Fetishistas. Archived from the original on December 5, 2018. Retrieved December 4, 2018."1950s pin-up queen Bettie Page dies". Reuters. December 13, 2008. Retrieved December 22, 2017.Bettie Page at CurlieBettie Page at IMDbBettie Page (Nashville, 22 de abril de 1923 – Los Angeles, 11 de dezembro de 2008) [1] foi uma modelo norte-americana que se tornou famosa na década de 1950 por fotos de temática pin-up e fetichista.
Bettie Page was a fashion model, also known as Queen of Pinups. During the 50s and 60s, her photographs took the fashion world by storm with her free-spirited demeanor and unabashed sensuality. Her Pinup-style photos were tacked up on walls in military barracks, garages, and fighter aircraft.
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