[RIP] Betty Page dies at 85
A sad note from the pop culture files today. I will always link Ms. Page in my mind with The Rocketeer and how she was changed into Jenny for the film version.
It was a strange kind of fame, finally achieving her place in pop culture while languishing in obscurity in a mental institution, decades after she'd tried to put her past as an erotic icon behind her. But it's comforting to know that in her final years, Page was finally receiving compensation for her 1950s plain brown wrapper work, and that what she once considered sin ultimately proved to be her salvation.
Read the L.A. Times obituary here.
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Betty Page dies at 85
It was a strange kind of fame, finally achieving her place in pop culture while languishing in obscurity in a mental institution, decades after she'd tried to put her past as an erotic icon behind her. But it's comforting to know that in her final years, Page was finally receiving compensation for her 1950s plain brown wrapper work, and that what she once considered sin ultimately proved to be her salvation.
Read the L.A. Times obituary here.
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