Originally Posted By wonderingalice An icon of the '50s and beyond is gone... She was somethin' else. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/12/bettie.page.obit/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/...dex.html</a>
Originally Posted By kennect Oh, what a fun character for her time...So outrageous but these days no one would bat an eye...Funny how things have changed...
Originally Posted By wonderingalice I would LOVE to post a link to her famous Christmas pose - so timely and all - but Forum Decorum prohibits... dontcha know... ;-)
Originally Posted By kennect OH Alice, Why don't you just give a try anyway...All they can do is remove it...Plus, you know, it is Christmas....I think I know the one you are speaking of and if it is by today standards it is more than tame.... I know little about her other than a biography that was done for TV...I just hope that she somehow actually made money over the years based on what she had done....
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Such innocent hotness. All of the crudely graphic stuff on the net today isn't nearly as playfully erotic as the photos of Bettie Page. I won't take the chance of posting a link, even though it doesn't show much more than you can see at DHS's Little Mermaid show. You never know what kind of mood Admin is in. But if you are interested, just do a Google image search for Bettie Page Christmas'. You will see not only the 'classic' photo, but a few that are a little more ahem... revealing...
Originally Posted By kennect Road, I love your comparision...That is pretty much as to how tame her photo's today would be...But I feel sure someone would find fault with her photo's if a comparision was made...Little Mermaid fine, Betty Page...Not so fine... Better yet...Wouldn't a link to her Florida photo's be ok?
Originally Posted By wonderingalice A "nice" tribute pictorial from Time Magazine.com for my buddies... <a href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1866085,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.time.com/time/photo...,00.html</a> Shortly before she passed away, I'd purchased "The Notorious Bettie Page" bio-film on DVD (from Amazon.com). It's a good and interesting movie and the actress portraying Ms. Page (Gretchen Mol) did an excellent job. Highly recommended for her fans!
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Oh... And on the royalties... Yes. In her later years she signed-on with a management company and collected $$ for her early work. I do wonder if she ever got a chunk from the HUGE business her images became over the years. Books, postcards, artwork, T-shirts, accessories, etc. People made FORTUNES from her classic vintage images.
Originally Posted By kennect Wondering, I know of the film you mentioned...And I haven't seen it yet...Or at least I don't think I have based on the idea I have seen so many different things done on her...I want to say I have seen it but I wouldn't swear to that...Consider me brain dead at the moment...What I do love is seeing some of the things done on her where she participated but wouldn't be shown on camera...Which makes me wonder, when were the last photo's of her done? And I don't mean pinup photo's, just a general photo of her...
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Professionally, I'm not sure, but would guess it was back in the '50s. She got out of the limelight very early. But here's a photo of her at a reunion with Hefner MANY years later... age 80. She aged nicely and still had that twinkle in her eyes. <a href="http://mike.wordpress.com/2006/02/09/176/" target="_blank">http://mike.wordpress.com/2006.../09/176/</a>
Originally Posted By kennect You know...That looks pretty good for that age...I always got the idea she was a having fun time with everything she did but I don't know any true details about her and what her life was really like...She reminds me a little of Mae West in the fact that even in to old age there was still the ability to have all of this mystery surrounding the character...I would almost guess she is probably better known than Mae in todays world...
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka The movie is sad but Gretchen did an amazing job. I think that she captured exactly what you described, kennect. She seemed innocent but that she thought she was having harmless fun. Oh to be so lovely (as either Bettie or Gretchen)!
