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Thread #116906 Message #2513765
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
12-Dec-08 - 04:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: Obit: Betty Page - December 2008
Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Betty Page - December 2008
There are a lot of her photos out on various sites around the Internet. I remember hearing about her and over the years I've read various pieces and looked for her photos. She worked steadily for quite a while, gaining a reputation as a steady model, but never made it into acting, though I think that was a goal of hers.
She did a lot of studio work, but when asked, also posed for private photographers and was apparently willing to pose nude and in some pretty outrageous costumes. I remember that the very tall heels were something she said a lot of photographers asked for.
I think Terry Gross on Fresh Air interviewed her, and I know Gross spoke to a biographer or someone who was working on the most recent film. Quite a few actresses tried for that roll, and what I remember was that while Gretchen Moll was in general able to look like her, she didn't gain any wait to have the more Marilyn Monroe kind of shape that Page did. There were critics who thought the role should have gone to a women who was more classically rounded than most modern American actresses.