If you are old enough you knew her.
Bettie Page dies at 85; pinup queen played a key role in the sexual revolution of the 1960s and later became a cult figure
By Louis Sahagun
9:17 PM PST, December 11, 2008
[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….]
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-page12-2008dec12,0,2727417,print.story
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Page made it into a few mainstream movies too, didn’t she?
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Not so much. Far more movies have been made about her, than using her. Take a a look at what imdb has to say about her credits:
http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=%22bettie+paige%22&x=0&y=0
http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=%22betty+page%22&x=0&y=0
Teaserama was really her claim to fame- and it really had no plot. In the sixties, that may have been her in a body shot.
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