Profile
Bettie Page
Model (person)
Female
Born
Apr 22, 1923
Hometown
Nashville
Died
Dec 11, 2008
Death Place
Los Angeles
Other Names
Page, Betty Mae
Bettie Mae Page was an American model who became famous in the 1950s for her fetish modeling and pin-up photos. She has often been called the "Queen of Pinups". Her look, including her jet black hair, blue eyes and trademark bangs, has influenced many… Read More
Photos
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Romance
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Harry LearMarried 1967 - 1972
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Armond WaltersonMarried 1958 - 1963
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Billy NealMarried 1943 - 1947
Family
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Bettie Page
d.2008
parents
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Walter Roy PageFather
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Edna Mae PirtleMother
News + Updates
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James Heffernan: To The Birthday Boys And Girls Of April 22Huffington Post - Apr 22, 2013
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Photos: A Tribute To The Queen Of All Pinups, Bettie PageHuffington Post - Apr 19, 2013
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How To Get A Vintage Pin Up Model Makeover For Valentine's DayHuffington Post - Feb 13, 2013
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Lauren Leibowitz: Beauty Horror Stories: A Very Bad Bang TrimHuffington Post - Feb 01, 2013
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1923
Birth
Born on April 22, 1923.
TEENAGE
1940
17 Years Old
A good student and debate team member at Hume-Fogg High School, she was voted "Most Likely to Succeed". On June 6, 1940, Page graduated as the salutatorian of her high school class with a scholarship.
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TWENTIES
1950
27 Years Old
In 1950, while walking along the Coney Island shore, she met Jerry Tibbs, a police officer with an interest in photography.
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1951
28 Years Old
Her name and image became quickly known in the erotic photography industry; in 1951, her image appeared in men's magazines such as Wink, Titter, Eyefull and Beauty Parade.
1952
29 Years Old
From 1952 through 1957, she posed for photographer Irving Klaw for mail-order photographs with pin-up, bondage or sadomasochistic themes, making her the first famous bondage model.
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THIRTIES
After Yeager sent shots of Page to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, he selected one to use as the Playmate of the Month centerfold in the January 1955 issue of the two-year-old magazine.
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While pin-up and glamour models frequently have careers measured in months, Page was in demand for several years, continuing to model until 1957.
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On New Year's Eve 1958, during one of her regular visits to Key West, Florida Page attended a service at what is now the Key West Temple Baptist Church.
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FORTIES
1963
40 Years Old
Over the next few years she worked for various Christian organizations before settling in Nashville in 1963.
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1967
44 Years Old
She briefly remarried Billy Neal, her first husband, who helped her to gain entrance into missionary work; however, the two divorced again shortly thereafter. She returned to Florida in 1967, and married again, to Harry Lear, but this marriage also ended in divorce in 1972.
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FIFTIES
1976
53 Years Old
In 1976, Eros Publishing Co. published A Nostalgic Look at Bettie Page, a mixture of photos from the 1950s.
1978
55 Years Old
Between 1978 and 1980, Belier Press published four volumes of Betty Page: Private Peeks, reprinting pictures from the private camera club sessions, which reintroduced Page to a new but small cult following.
1979
56 Years Old
Foster's book immediately provoked attacks from her fans, including Hefner and Harlan Ellison, as well as a statement from Page that it was "full of lies," because they were not pleased that the book revealed a Los Angeles County Sheriff's police report that stated that she suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and, at age 56, had stabbed her elderly landlords on the afternoon of April 19, 1979 in an unprovoked attack during a fit of insanity.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1993
70 Years Old
In a 1993 telephone interview with Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Page told host Robin Leach that she had been unaware of the resurgence of her popularity, stating that she was "penniless and infamous".
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1996
73 Years Old
The question of what Page did in the obscure years after modeling was answered in part with the publication of an official biography in 1996, Bettie Page: The Life of a Pin-up Legend.
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Another biography, The Real Bettie Page: The Truth about the Queen of Pinups written by Richard Foster and published in 1997, told a less happy tale.
2003
80 Years Old
In 2003, Page allowed a publicity picture to be taken of her for the August 2003 edition of Playboy.
2006
83 Years Old
In 2006, the Los Angeles Times ran an article headlined A Golden Age for a Pinup, covering an autographing session at her current publicity company, CMG Worldwide.
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According to long-time friend and business agent Mark Roesler, on December 6, 2008, Bettie Page was hospitalized in critical condition.
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