DLRBAND COVER GIRL BETTIE PAGE Bettie Page is the sultry 50s' pin up girl on The DLR BAND cd. Below are pictures and a detailed biography of her life. PICTURES     LOOK  FAMILIAR?         BIO Bettie Page -- On a summer day in 1952, a photographer saw Bettie at Jones Beach, took some pictures of her, suggested that she change her hairstyle to the bangs that became her trademark, an introduced her to Irving Claw, the impresario of mail-order girlie pix. Within two years, Bettie Page was superstar in the strange, hermetic world of girlie pix. The customers of Klaw's Movie Star News and Cartoon and Model Parade demanded more pictures of Bettie. The photographers loved her. She would pose all day. She made $10 an hour. She would pose nude, seminude, in dusty studios and dark apartments and outside in lousy weather. She never complained. The only problem they had with her was that she had trouble being on time. She was always late. Once, it is said, three days late. But the photographers would wait, for that look, for that smile. There was no one like her in the 50's. Was this mysterious 1950's Queen of bondage pin-ups, a visionary? Or the pawn of those who photographed her? By 1955 Bettie was the queen of pinups, the undisputed superstar of bondage pix, the main event in the Battling Babes series. She was the biggest hit on the photography-club circuit, the members of which paid a set fee for an afternoon field trip to some deserted meadow, park, or farm in New Jersey or Connecticut. Of such stuff as this are the collective fantasies of millions of men constructed and colluded. Nearly fifty years after her first appearance on the cover of Cartoon and Model Parade, Betty Page remains the undisputed queen of the pin-up. Her image of short black bangs, ultra high heels and a Southern smile graces everything from men's magazines and adult comics to cult film and full-color tattoos. She modeled for about a decade in jungle wear for Miami photographer Bunny Yeager and in bondage gear for New York City brother and sister photography team, Irving and Paula Klaw. According to Yeager, Page was one of the most photographed models in America, pictured more than Cindy Crawford and Marilyn Monroe combined. Her images, captured on film by photographer, Irving Klaw, between 1951-57, is a virtual catalogue of the erotic fantasy life of the heterosexual American male, replete and glittering with images of domination and submission, of celluloid-inspired exoticism and girl-next-door innocence. Now, leather, S&M, bondage, and other such fetishes are talked about openly on daytime talk shows, but Bettie was definitely ahead of her time. Perhaps like many innocent young girls hoping for stardom, she was merely modeling for such people as Irving Klaw and Bunny Yeager while waiting for her "big break". In 1957, Bettie gave it all up. She went to Florida, modeled for a few years and then disappeared. What became of her? There are many rumors of what happened to her. They range from "gangsters had threatened her life so she had plastic surgery and went to live in Europe" to " she entered a convent". It is probably just as well we don't know all the facts, it leaves us to our imagination as to the true story. But it doesn't matter anyway, Bettie Page has left us a menagerie of sexy, mysterious, unusual and sometimes very humorous photos to enjoy for lifetimes to come. Betty's toothy smile and buxom, well-fed form decked-out in stiletto heels and leather are appropriately dichotomous metaphors for the state of the male erotic psyche, providing a keyhole glimpse into the gaudy, underlit bedroom of the American mind. Bettie Mae Page Born: April 22 1923 in Nashville, Tennessee Parents: Edna and Roy Page Height: 5'5 1/2 Weight: 128-130 Measurements: 36"-23"-35" Eyes: Blue/Grey Hair: Black (naturally)  Musical Instruments: Guitar & Piano Other Professions: Teacher, Secretary Smoke or Drink: Never Marital Status: Currently single, but divorced three times. Career Highlights: Bettie has appeared in over 1,000 magazines since 1951. Bettie was the Centerfold girl in the January 1955 Issue of Playboy.   To email the article you just read above to someone else {click here} .

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