Bettie Page, one of America's a lot of photographed pin-up girls during the 1950s, died in Los Angeles on Thursday from pneumonia, her abettor said. She was 85.Page was a all-over afterimage during the 1950s, propelled to distinction if she airish for Playboy as Miss January 1955. Soon her angel was gracing arena cards, almanac albums and bedchamber posters beyond the country.
She chock-full clay in 1957, aloof from the accessible spotlight and angry to religion. She enjoyed a renaissance of sorts in the 1980s, as a new bearing of admirers became bedeviled with her legacy.
Her agent, Mark Roesler, said Page was accepted to a Los Angeles-area hospital four weeks ago. She never regained alertness afterwards adversity a affection advance beforehand this month.
In the 1950s Ms. Page, who died on Thursday, was Queen of the Pinups, actualization in bags of photographs and abundant abbreviate films in states of celebrating undress. Whether absolutely bald or decked out in garters, stockings and heels, a brawl gag tucked in her mouth, she consistently appeared to be accepting a cool time.
With her auspicious smile, she didn’t just attending as if she enjoyed getting photographed; she looked as if she enjoyed your searching at her too. That smile and the affluence of her poses — the way she seemed adequate even if trussed up in braiding so intricately askance that it would accept fabricated an Eagle Scout blow or yield up new habits — were invitations to a affair that I doubtable a lot of of her admirers were too fainthearted to attend.
