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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: dr.chimps on December 12, 2008, 01:43:52 AM
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Lads. I'm not usually one to be a postwhore but some sad news has come our way and I think it is worth reflecting on. Bettie Page was a legend and has now passed. Today's celebutard's have nothing on this woman. :'(
/i'll be in my bunk
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impressive ;D
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PIP :'(
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what a flattering picture
slurrrp :D
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Lads. I'm not usually one to be a postwhore but some sad news has come our way and I think it is worth reflecting on. Bettie Page was a legend and has now passed. Today's celebutard's have nothing on this woman. :'(
/i'll be in my bunk
betty was a pioneer slut.
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What a cutie
R.I.P.
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R.I.P. Betty Page.
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RIP! :-\ :'(
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RIP
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RIP
looked good
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Never could manage to crack one off to those old photographs
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Karl- who the fuck is that in your avatar. After all the stupid half nude/ pics and videos ive been looking at on the board all day, that was the first thing to give me wood.
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god i love to fuck her in that position.
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PIP :(
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god i love to fuck her in that position.
how many days after death do ya figure she's still doable?
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That's not Dita Von Teese.
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P.I.P.
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I heard she was in hiding. Any pics of what she looked like nowadays before her passing? ???
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I heard she was in hiding. Any pics of what she looked like nowadays before her passing? ???
Yup. There's one of her in this Fark Bettie Page thread http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=4078394 (http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=4078394) at age 80 with Hef. I hear she was particular about photos later in life; she wanted people to remember her as she was. I'll respect that wish.
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I remember that they did a TV interview of her about 5 years ago and she would not show her face. She said that she had put on some weight and was older and wanted people to remember her the way she used to look. Judging from the pic with Hef she didn't look bad at all for 80. She had a unique look and from what I understand she made no money at all from the pics that have been posted of her and also made none from the Betty Boop doll wich was modeled after her. RIP Betty.
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:'( RIP.
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(http://www9.kinghost.com/fetish/epoque/25/original/bpnude125.jpeg)
Hell yeah
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Karl- who the fuck is that in your avatar. After all the stupid half nude/ pics and videos ive been looking at on the board all day, that was the first thing to give me wood.
yeah that avatar should be banned its driving me wild :D
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I remember that they did a TV interview of her about 5 years ago and she would not show her face. She said that she had put on some weight and was older and wanted people to remember her the way she used to look. Judging from the pic with Hef she didn't look bad at all for 80. She had a unique look and from what I understand she made no money at all from the pics that have been posted of her and also made none from the Betty Boop doll wich was modeled after her. RIP Betty.
Betty Boop doll or Betty Boop? Betty Boop was before Bettie Piage's time, well before her time.
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Karl- who the fuck is that in your avatar. After all the stupid half nude/ pics and videos ive been looking at on the board all day, that was the first thing to give me wood.
Alenk Bikar youtube her.
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(http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20081213&t=2&i=7203170&w=450&r=2008-12-13T002951Z_01_BTRE4BC01H800_RTROPTP_0_PEOPLE-PAGE)(http://www.bulkcarrier.de/media/Bettie_Page_1.jpg) (http://bp0.blogger.com/_W4dlDe4EAYg/Rcdq32TwQtI/AAAAAAAAAHA/nqmmKdoWAHo/s400/bettie.jpg)
(http://www.nuvo.net/blog/wayneb/archives/bettie_page3.jpg) (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj46/bettiefanpage/bettie_page_pinup_10.jpg)
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE4BB0XP20081213
y Dean Goodman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bettie Page, one of America's most photographed pin-up girls during the 1950s, died in Los Angeles on Thursday from pneumonia, her agent said. She was 85.
Page was a ubiquitous sight during the 1950s, propelled to stardom when she posed for Playboy as Miss January 1955. Soon her image was gracing playing cards, record albums and bedroom posters across the country.
She stopped modeling in 1957, retreated from the public spotlight and turned to religion. She enjoyed a renaissance of sorts in the 1980s, as a new generation of fans became obsessed with her legacy.
Her agent, Mark Roesler, said Page was admitted to a Los Angeles-area hospital four weeks ago. She never regained consciousness after suffering a heart attack earlier this month.
With her dark bangs, alluring blue-gray eyes and wide smile, Page cultivated an innocent girl-next-door persona. The one-time school teacher was nice, but clearly also naughty. Some of her photos featured spanking and bondage.
"Bettie Page embodied the stereotypical wholesomeness of the Fifties and the hidden sexuality straining beneath the surface," authors Karen Essex and James L. Swanson wrote in their 1996 book "Bettie Page: The Life of a Pin-Up Legend."
Page professed to be mystified by all the attention, saying she never felt particularly attractive and had to wear a lot of makeup to cover up her large pores. After she found God, she was initially ashamed of having posed nude.
"(B)ut now most of the money I've got is because I posed in the nude," she told Playboy last year. "So I'm not ashamed of it now, but I still don't understand it."
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22, 1923, in Nashville, one of six children. She and two sisters were sent to an orphanage after her father went to jail and her mother could not cope on her own. Page later described her father as "a sex fiend" who started sexually molesting her when she was 13.
Page, armed with an arts degree with Peabody College in Nashville, did her first modeling work in the 1940s after moving to San Francisco with the first of her three husbands. After they divorced in 1947, she pursued modeling in New York. Photos from a shoot with Miami photographer Bunny Yeager ended up in the pages of Playboy.
The layout featured Page winking at the camera wearing only a Santa hat as she decorated a Christmas tree. Playboy founder Hugh Hefner described it as "a milestone in the history of the magazine," which he had founded less than two years earlier.
Later in life, Page was furious that Yeager made a fortune from the photos and never compensated her.
Some American lawmakers were not as impressed with her modeling abilities. Page was served with a subpoena to appear before U.S. Senate investigators trying to discover a link between juvenile delinquency and pornography. Page never appeared. Soon after, she completely disappeared from the scene.
After two other brief marriages failed, Page battled acute schizophrenia beginning in the early 1970s. Her comeback gathered momentum with the 1991 movie "The Rocketeer," based on a comic book where the hero's girlfriend was Page. Fan clubs and websites proliferated, and Page made a good living signing memorabilia at conventions. On the rare occasions that she gave interviews, she insisted that she not be photographed.
Page had no children. There was no immediate information about funeral plans.
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P.I.P Betty :'(
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Oops - sorry, man. I was away for a few days and just found out.
Thanks so much for that tribute.
She was the shit!! (and also the reason I became a schmoe! haha)
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Oops - sorry, man. I was away for a few days and just found out.
Thanks so much for that tribute.
She was the shit!! (and also the reason I became a schmoe! haha)
The first step to recovery is admitting it lol
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definitely an icon of pinup imagery... it is a shame she was so shallow and appearance-conscious even up to her death in her 80's.. obviously was never able to put the past behind and move on with life.. kinda sad, and the opposite of the confidence she seemed to display in her shoots.