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RIP Bettie Page
Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 12:31
by Quiff Boy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7778963.stm
50s pin-up queen Bettie Page dies
Bettie Page, one of the most famous US pin-up models of the 1950s, has died in Los Angeles, aged 85.
Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 12:55
by markfiend
Sad.
I'm vaguely surprised that she was still alive to be honest.
Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 13:35
by Erudite
markfiend wrote:Sad.
I'm vaguely surprised that she was still alive to be honest.
Snap.
Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 14:52
by 6FeetOver
I remember quaintly-scandalous Bettie vids played over and over at g*th clubs in L.A. years ago. I thought they were hilarious, in that Bettie consistently flashed her blinding smile whilst dressed in what'd now pass for "granny" panties and bras, and engaging in such "naughty" activities as twirling around, wiggling her bum, and pulling off her gloves.
So tame (and downright tasteful) by today's standards...
Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 17:18
by James Blast
Whit... nae tit!?
Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 19:50
by boudicca
Erudite wrote:markfiend wrote:Sad.
I'm vaguely surprised that she was still alive to be honest.
Snap.
Thirded.
She got God in the end, didn't she?
Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 20:08
by eotunun
The heroess of numberless wet dreams of adolescent boys (and the occasional adolescent Girl) has gone.
I dearly hope she enjoyed every day of her time on earth!
May she find her peace now.
But how do you bury a pin-up queen propperly?
-Do you lay her in a coffin, or do you stick her to the door of a locker on a cemetery?
Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 21:09
by Ozpat
Ai...did'nt know. Thanks QB. Has not, inspite of the fame, been in the news here afaik.
May she rest in peace!
Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 21:12
by markfiend
boudicca wrote: She got God in the end, didn't she?
quite a long time ago in fact. I think that's why she quit the business.
RIP Bettie P
Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 21:35
by DrG
Blessed be Bettie Page.
We are lucky she allowed this film...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404802/
to be made. It is a good and rather clean telling of her story.
Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 22:15
by James Blast
still nae tit
Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 23:56
by splintered thing
Posted: 13 Dec 2008, 00:27
by James Blast
thank you, but...
that isn't
tit
don't make me, you wouldn't like me... 
Posted: 13 Dec 2008, 00:37
by splintered thing
I know but she is what she is - isn't that something!
She was real.
Her Obit on her website mentions her recent links with Anna Nicole Smith- apparently her modern equivalent - if those are the giant jubblies you are after heee hee........ nuf said.
Posted: 13 Dec 2008, 00:48
by James Blast
'nats' for me, me no likee 'enhanced' knorks
I did try to find a linky that may not offend but it's all gone a bit Pete tonight and I've had just enough to drink and I'm very, very tired... probably emotional too
NEXT! 
Posted: 13 Dec 2008, 01:06
by Nicole
eotunun wrote:The heroess of numberless wet dreams of adolescent boys (and the occasional adolescent Girl) has gone.
Adolescent nothing - I've got a bit of a collection going of Bettie photos. A couple of magnets on the fridge as well, right by the coffee pot - something nice to look at after stumbling into the kitchen bleary eyed trying to make coffee in the morning, not quite conscious enough to play with the magnetic poetry also on the fridge.
I love how open and free, really sensual she was in her photos - they never look forced or too posed, she was really her. Even after becoming a born again Christian, she said she never regretted anything she did, that she was comfortable and felt natural nude. That gorgeous smile - the girl with the perfect figure - the largest influence by far on pin up art even today (and how many rockabilly/punk/goth girls have modeled their look on hers?) The pin up queen indeed.
Posted: 13 Dec 2008, 02:53
by Nicole
markfiend wrote:boudicca wrote: She got God in the end, didn't she?
quite a long time ago in fact. I think that's why she quit the business.
She quit the business before she found God, actually.
Quotes are from the obituary I've found several places on the net:
In 1951, Page fell under the influence of a photographer and his sister who specialized in S&M. They cut her hair into the dark bangs that became her signature and posed her in spiked heels and little else. She was photographed with a whip in her hand, and in one session she was spread-eagled between two trees, her feet dangling.
"I thought my arms and legs would come out of their sockets," she said later.
Moralists denounced the photos as perversion, and Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, Page's home state, launched a congressional investigation.
Page quickly retreated from public view, later saying she was hounded by federal agents who waved her nude photos in her face. She also said she believed that, at age 34, her days as "the girl with the perfect figure" were nearly over.
She moved to Florida in 1957 and married a much younger man, as an early marriage to her high school sweetheart had ended in divorce.
Her second marriage also failed, as did a third, and she suffered a nervous breakdown.
In 1959, she was lying on a sea wall in Key West when she saw a church with a white neon cross on top. She walked inside and became a born-again Christian.
Also
After resurfacing in the 1990s, she occasionally granted interviews but refused to allow her picture to be taken.
"I don't want to be photographed in my old age," she told an interviewer in 1998. "I feel the same way with old movie stars. ... It makes me sad. We want to remember them when they were young."
I think she felt her modeling days were over, seems the controversy had something to do with it too though - but as I said in a post above, her religion and missionary work apparently never caused her to feel ashamed.
she told Playboy in 1998: "I never thought it was shameful. I felt normal. It's just that it was much better than pounding a typewriter eight hours a day, which gets monotonous."
Nudity didn't bother her, she said, explaining: "God approves of nudity. Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, they were naked as jaybirds."
Posted: 13 Dec 2008, 04:42
by Qarly
markfiend wrote:Sad.
I'm vaguely surprised that she was still alive to be honest.
I for one was definitely not aware...
Posted: 13 Dec 2008, 09:03
by Erudite
boudicca wrote:
She got God in the end, didn't she?
You make that sound like a disease, but then history is full of people who have contracted a nasty case of religion.
Posted: 13 Dec 2008, 19:01
by Norman Hunter
The staff at Bizzare magazine will be inconsolable.
Posted: 13 Dec 2008, 22:41
by Nicole
Norman Hunter wrote:The staff at Bizzare magazine will be inconsolable.
Actually just found this:
http://www.bizarremag.com/entertainment ... eager.html
but when I hear Bizarre Magazine I always think of the US one published between '48 and '59 - I think Page appeared on the cover once or twice (but not actually inside the mag), I found original copies of almost all of them on ebay about a year ago but bidding got a bit expensive so I gave up. I had never heard of it myself until we got one volume of this set (
http://www.amazon.com/Bizarre-Complete- ... 3822892696) in used at work a couple years ago, I came across it while fixing some inventory and paged through it, was going to buy it but decided not to since it wasn't the whole set. Still want a copy.
Posted: 13 Dec 2008, 23:35
by Nicole
Posted: 14 Dec 2008, 02:48
by James Blast
thank you dear but, not even close... ( ° )( ° )