{"id":5962,"date":"2008-12-12T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5962"},"modified":"2009-03-26T17:30:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T23:30:01","slug":"bettie-mae-page-1923-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/bettie-mae-page-1923-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Bettie Mae Page 1923-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Decades later, those images inspired biographies, comic books, fan clubs, websites<\/a>, 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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“I want to be remembered,” she said, “as I was when I was young and in my golden times. . . . I want to be remembered as the woman who changed people’s perspectives concerning nudity in its natural form<\/a>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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(via eggradio<\/a>, ectomo<\/a>, coilhouse<\/a>, la times<\/a>, TFAW: Bettie Page Tribute<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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