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Bettie Page Dies at 85

Friday December 12, 2008
Gretchen Moll as Betty Page 1950s pin-up model Bettie Page died Thursday in Los Angeles, nine days after suffering a heart attack. She was 85. The quintessential girl next door from Tennessee transformed into a sex siren, posing for a series of now infamous S&M photos.

Mary Harron's wonderful film The Notorious Bettie Page (2005) featured a incandescent performance by Gretchen Mol as a woman who took delight in taking off her clothes for the camera. More:

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December 14, 2008 at 2:33 am
(1) Robert Hamer says:

It’s funny seeing her stuff and how tame it is now.

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