The Real Bettie Page: The Truth About the Queen of Pinups - Softcover

Foster, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806520752 ISBN 13: 9780806520759

Publisher: Citadel, 2005

Synopsis

A colorful portrait of the 1950s cheesecake model includes her popularity as a pinup girl, her arrest for attempted murder, and her commitment to a mental hospital. Reissue. (A New Line Cinema film, releasing March 2006, directed by Mary Harron, starring Gretchen Mol & Lili Taylor) (Biography)

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Foster is currently an assistant editor at Style Weekly magazine.

From Library Journal:

In this unauthorized biography of the 1950s pin-up phenomenon Bettie Page, Style Weekly's associate editor reveals new information about the pop icon's missing years. In 1957, at the height of her popularity, Page walked away from the glamour-girl lifestyle and disappeared until tracked down by reporters in 1992. Recent books and articles about the model, including her coauthored authorized biography, Bettie Page: The Life of a Pin-Up Legend (General Publishers Group, 1996), have left out seamier portions of her story, which Foster includes here. A chapter on Cyber Bettie gives web site addresses, including a hyperlink list to more than 400 images and text. An inventory lists selected book covers, comic books, and album and magazine covers. Although this work reads like a tabloid expose?Foster offers lots of speculation and not much insight?it will appeal to pin-up fans and, thanks to the reference material, collectors. Appropriate for larger public libraries.?Kelli N. Perkins, Herrick P.L., Holland, Mich.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Citadel
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0806520752
• ISBN 13: 9780806520759
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240