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Bettie Mae Page (April 22, 1923 – December 11, 2008) was an American model who gained notoriety in the 1950s for her pin-up photos.
Born April 22, 1923, in Nashville, Tennessee, Bettie was the second child of Walter Roy Page & Edna Mae Pirtle's six children.
After attending Bible school, she wanted to serve as a missionary but was turned down.

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Bettie Page

American pin-up model (1923–2008)

Bettie Mae Page (April 22, 1923 – December 11, 2008) was an American model who gained notoriety in the 1950s for her pin-up photos.^[2]^[3] She was often referred to as the "Queen of Pinups": her long jet-black hair, blue eyes, and trademark bangs have influenced artists for generations. After her death, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner called her "a remarkable lady, an iconic figure in pop culture who influenced sexuality, taste in fashion, someone who had a tremendous impact on our society".^[4]

A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Page lived in California in her early adult years before moving to New York City to pursue work as an actress. There, she found work as a pin-up model, and she posed for several photographers throughout the 1950s. Page was "Miss January 1955", one of the earliest Playmates of the Month for Playboy magazine. After years in obscurity, she experienced a resurgence of popularity in the 1980s.

In 1959, Page converted to evangelical Christianity and worked for Billy Graham,^&

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Bettie Mae Page (born Betty Mae Page April 22, 1923 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a former American model who became famous in the 1950s for her fetish modeling and pin-up photos. While she faded into obscurity in the 1960s after her conversion to Christianity, she experienced a resurgence of popularity in the 1980s and now has a significant cult following.

Early life:
Page was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the second child of Walter Roy Page and Edna Mae Pirtle. During Bettie's early years, the Page family traveled around the country in search of economic stability. At a tender age, Bettie had to face the responsibilities of caring for her younger siblings. Her parents divorced when Betty was 10 years old. Following the divorce, Page and her sister lived in an orphanage for a year. During this time, Bettie's mother worked two jobs, one as a hairdresser during the day and washed laundry at night. As a teenager, Bettie and her sisters tried different makeup styles and hairdos imitating their favorite movie stars. Bettie also learned to sew. These skills proved useful years

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Bettie Page: The Life of a Pin-Up Legend

January 7, 2013

This book is a great halfway house between coffee-table picture book and serious biography: while it excels at the former, within its restrictions it makes a damn good stab at the latter too.

Bettie Page was (and still is) enigmatic: it was the 1950s and there was the girl-next-door's sparkling eyes and smile in leather corsets, whips and ball-gag. She's the only pin-up of her generation still remembered, and yet her photos were only available in under-the-counter photo sets and fetish magazines. She was a model photographed almost exclusively by amateur "shutterbugs" at photgraphy-enthusiast's groups, or in bondage at the Irving Klaw studio. And then, after the police closed the Klaw studio, in 1957, after just 7 years of modelling, she disappeared - so completely that not only could nobody find her, she didn't even know until the early 90s what an iconic image she'd become. So why on earth has her image lasted so long?

This book was the first to be written with Bettie's full co-operation. The authors spent a week inter