Betty Page Dies, aged 85

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Bettie Page, the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling, has died. She was 85.

Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago, her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement.

?She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality,? said Roesler. ?She is the embodiment of beauty.?

The busty ?Dark Angel? from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era, striking a chord with men?s camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots. Page?s image, complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile, appeared on magazine covers, playing cards, wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s, inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna, Demi Moore and Uma Thurman.

The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until ?Entertainment Tonight? broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later. She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959, and later battled mental illness in Florida and California.

?Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s,? James Swanson, co-author of ?Bettie Page: The Life of a Pinup Legend,? said in a 1996 interview with NBC?s Real Life program. ?Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, she brought something modern to the era. She?s like the girl next door, the greatest American pin-up and that?s why she?s eternal.?

She was one of the women I grew up idolising... I knew she was ill recently, so this doesn't come as a surprise. But it's still sad

 

Erotica and class. You don't see those words in the same sentence so much anymore.

 

Awww.

 

I remember once finding a deck of cards with pics of her on them when we moved into a new place when I was a kid.

RIP

 

Here's my Bettie-inspired t-shirt:
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Very true.

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RIP

 

She helped many boys become men.

 

She was a heartbreaking story, really.
What's strange is, many people over the age of 60 never even heard of her.

 

I remember seeing a somewhat recent photo of her, and she still looked great for her age.

Now I hope one or two of those Bettie shorts are still available On Demand.

 

Not to be a funeral pooper, but her face always scared the **** out of me while she performed.

Otherwise, she was talented, RIP.

 

Pauley Perrette from NCIS would be a perfect actress to play her if they make a movie of her life...

 

I thought they already had made a movie.

 

Too bad her name is misspelled in the thread title.

Hopefully this will be the last celebrity death of 2008. Then we can have an accurate body count.

A little late, dude.

Slimy!

 

I actually have that same shirt.

RIP Betty, I hope you're happier now, than you were in life.

They did, and it's a fairly recent film.

It's called The Notorious Betty Page.

 

Dang, that's sad.

You don't see stuff like hers anymore, except on Web sites that cater to that kind of thing, but most modern-day pin-up queens like Dita Von Treese don't have that "something" Betty Page had.

 

I was surprised to hear this news, especially since I thought she was already dead.

She was gorgeous though, and most importantly, she loved what she did. RIP.

 

Indeed.