After he was drafted into the Army, Neal pressured Page to marry him.
It was the first in a long line of relationships with problematic men. “All I got was a 100-dollar scholarship to the George Peabody school for teachers,” she says.Īfter high school, she began seeing her classmate Billy Neal, a sports star. 14 points, and had to settle for Salutatorian status. But Bettie, with a 97.19 average, was beat out by. Page’s biggest dream, she says, was to be valedictorian of her high school, because it came with a four-year scholarship to Vanderbilt University. “After all, he put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden naked as jaybirds!” “I don’t even believe God disapproves of nudity,” says Page. Page would even take what she calls “air baths” in the nude. To escape, the Page girls would mimic poses of pinup models in magazines, often posing in the yard in their undergarments. When her mother finally worked up the courage to leave him, she hitchhiked to Nashville with the six children in tow and enrolled Page and her two sisters in a protestant orphanage for three years that, as Bettie describes it, sounds like living with the Thénardiers, replete with verbal abuse and floor-scrubbing. “In order to get 10 cents to go to the movies, I let him fool around on the outside-now he didn’t penetrate me inside, like he did my two sisters,” says Page.
The family, according to Page, lived on “beans, fried potatoes, and macaroni,” and her father was “a sex fiend” who regularly molested his three daughters. Page came from very humble beginnings, growing up one of six children to a destitute auto mechanic father and mother with just a third-grade education. In Bettie Page Reveals All, filmmaker Mark Mori gives Page the documentary treatment, retelling Page’s wild life story through interviews with Page’s friends, lovers, coworkers, and confidantes, as well as several candid interviews with Page herself-delivered in a decidedly un-Page-like smoky southern drawl-which are used to narrate the film. 8 with a take of $10 million-right after Albert Einstein and several spots ahead of Bruce Lee. Forbes’s list of the top earning dead celebrities for 2013 placed Page at No. Or pop in and visit one of the 17 Bettie Page clothing stores across the country boasting apparel inspired by the pinup beauty.
Read the erotic BDSM novel Fifty Shades of Grey. Behold pinup model Dita Von Teese, the work of designer Thierry Mugler, and Beyoncé’s music video for ‘Why Don’t You Love Me”-a riff on Page’s 16mm short films. Look at Katy Perry’s combination of piercing blue eyes and black bangs, Madonna’s bondage-heavy music video for “Human Nature,” and Uma Thurman’s character in Pulp Fiction. Indeed, pop culture owes a great deal of debt to Page. “The remarkable thing about her image is how much it’s influenced pop culture-from music, to movies, to fashion.” “It’s very difficult to find a parallel for her-this combination of naughty and nice-and it’s all in the context of innocence,” says Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. She was the world’s greatest pinup model, a sexual Sherpa guiding a generation of men and women through the repressive landscape of 1950s America. With her striking blue eyes, black bangs, voluptuous figure, and thousand-watt smile, Page was the living embodiment of a lady on the streets and a freak in the sheets, the original good girl gone bad.
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