BETTIE'S PEN:
The 1950's cult pin up queen
Bettie Page autographing posters
and paintings at CMG Worldwide.
Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES, California / Los Angeles Times / December 12, 2008
OBITUARY
Bettie Page played a key role in the sexual revolution of the 1960s and later became a cult figure
By Louis Sahagun
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.
Decades later, those images inspired biographies, comic books, fan clubs, websites, commercial products -- Bettie Page playing cards, dress-up magnet sets, action figures, Zippo lighters, shot glasses -- and, in 2005, a film about her life and times, "The Notorious Bettie Page."
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Copyright 2008 Los Angeles Times
December 12, 2008
USA: Bettie Page, Pin Up Queen of the Sixties, Dies at 85
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BETTIE'S PEN:
The 1950's cult pin up queen
Bettie Page autographing posters
and paintings at CMG Worldwide.
Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES, California / Los Angeles Times / December 12, 2008
OBITUARY
Bettie Page played a key role in the sexual revolution of the 1960s and later became a cult figure
By Louis Sahagun
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.
Decades later, those images inspired biographies, comic books, fan clubs, websites, commercial products -- Bettie Page playing cards, dress-up magnet sets, action figures, Zippo lighters, shot glasses -- and, in 2005, a film about her life and times, "The Notorious Bettie Page."
There's more of the LOS ANGELES TIMES report
Copyright 2008 Los Angeles Times
BETTIE'S PEN:
The 1950's cult pin up queen
Bettie Page autographing posters
and paintings at CMG Worldwide.
Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES, California / Los Angeles Times / December 12, 2008
OBITUARY
Bettie Page played a key role in the sexual revolution of the 1960s and later became a cult figure
By Louis Sahagun
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.
Decades later, those images inspired biographies, comic books, fan clubs, websites, commercial products -- Bettie Page playing cards, dress-up magnet sets, action figures, Zippo lighters, shot glasses -- and, in 2005, a film about her life and times, "The Notorious Bettie Page."
There's more of the LOS ANGELES TIMES report
Copyright 2008 Los Angeles Times
