last night

[foxtongue]

R.I.P. Bettie Mae Page (April 22, 1923 - December 11, 2008).

As I'm sure most of you know, Bettie Page slipped into a coma earlier this week. Apparently she didn't recover. "With deep personal sadness I must announce that my dear friend and client Bettie Page passed away at 1841 this evening in a Los Angeles hospital," her agent Mark Roesler said. She was 85.

Comments

[trillian-stars.livejournal.com]

That's such a great picture of her -- a "jane" of another sort!

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

It was hard to pick one, but this shot just seemed so much of what she wanted to be remembered for, minus the being nude all the time.

[thevintagestar.livejournal.com]

As I twittered Katie West, "Well shit." She was timeless.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I read somewhere she was the second playboy pin-up, right after Marilyn Monroe.

[thevintagestar.livejournal.com]

According to Wikipedia (the most reliable source in the history of the universe) she was about a year later.

[superjill.livejournal.com]

To quote skonen_blades:

... and I wonder what made her in particular so famous over the years. ...

All you can really say is "Well, look at her!"