Betty Page Confidential: Featuring Never-Before Seen Photographs
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Curvaceous, friendly and wholesome-looking, Playboy pinup Betty Page was the perfect complement to the still-innocent fantasies of young men during the Eisenhower years. Betty Page Confidential includes a biography of the reclusive goddess, an official Betty Page trivia quiz and 100 photos.
Betty Page Confidential is the ultimate book on this 1950s icon.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mostly a Bettie Page pictorial (indicentally, the title of the book is spelled wrong!), the narrative of the book gives the reader a peek inside the life of Bettie Page, the pin-up and photography club model. The book also details all of Bettie's film shorts and magazine photo appearances. This makes this book a great reference. Some Bettie Page memorbilia is also listed in this book, however, it is not exhaustive. There are pieces in my collection not even mentioned in the book. Either way, this book is a great find for those that appreciate Bettie Page.
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Betty Page Confidential - Buck Henry
Introduction
by Buck Henry
The first time I saw her was during the mid-fifties on a balmy fall afternoon in New York. I was standing outside the 14th Street building on whose side was pointed the giant sign for IRVING KLAW PINUP PHOTOS. A door opened and she came out into the street. Men and women turned to look at the long legs, the white, white skin and the black, black, black hair cut in bangs straight across her forehead. And, of course, the smile. It was the smile that could break your heart.
The oft-told Betty Page story is peculiar—a morality tale with no discernible moral, not much plot, and a leading character who is at best elusive. But that doesn’t stop us from trying to glean some insight into her never-flagging popularity or from trying to construct some new theory about why she abandoned us.
e9780312109400_i0002.jpgThe known facts of the story have been reexamined, rehashed, and recycled for three decades, mostly by die-hard fans (such as myself) who used the memory of her or the images of her or the memory of the images of her to fuel our fantasies. The story itself is banal: She came, she failed utterly to achieve her dream, she split.
And yet. And yet: She was known as the Queen of Curves, Miss Pinup of the World, the Queen of Hearts, the Dark Angel, the Queen of Bondage, etc.
An estimated half a million pictures were taken of her by almost every professional and amateur photographer in New York—including the renowned Weegee, who once climbed into a bathtub with her to get a shot, tried to cop a feel, and got smacked.
She left her cheesecake competition in the dust, appearing countless times on the covers and in the pages of every major and minor girlie magazine in the world.
… In 1948 she arrived in New York. She was twenty-five years old. She rented an apartment in a converted brownstone on West 46th Street and worked as a typist for a company on Wall Street. She worked out in a gym every day. She didn’t smoke. She didn’t drink. She carried a brick in her purse to bash any would-be molester.
She was determined to become an actress. Why not? Anything is possible in New York.
e9780312109400_i0003.jpgWe came to New York by the thousands—starry-eyed kids drunk with ambition and movie-magazine success stories. We carried a suitcase in one hand and a piece of paper with a telephone number—someone’s uncle, someone’s friend, someone’s agent—in the other.
We lived in rent-controlled apartments, waiting for that big break, working in restaurants, driving cabs, moving furniture, hawking Bibles door-to-door, playing chess for money in Washington Square, stealing. We made the rounds, surely the most demeaning, ego-busting, humiliating method of seeking employment ever invented. We lied about our credits, our ages, and our heights. We pretended we could tap-dance, speak with a Russian accent, juggle, fence, ride horses bareback. We sucked up to producers, agents, assistants, secretaries, anyone. We smiled at