Betty Page: Bondage Queen
Background Information: Betty Page [Top] Bettie Mae Page, also known as Betty Page is a United States model, the subject of numerous pin-up girl photographs in the mid 20th century. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Pages parents divorced when she was 10 years old, forcing her & her sister to live for a year at an orphanage. A strong student in high school, she reportedly missed earning the title of school valedictorian & a scholarship to Vanderbilt University by a quarter of a grade point, but graduated from Peabody College with a Bachelors of Arts in 1943. She married Billy Neal, who had attended high school with her, but who shortly afterwards left her for active duty in World War II & whom she divorced in 1947. After working briefly in Haiti as a secretary at a furniture company, she moved to New York City, where she supported herself as a secretary while looking for work as an actress. While she appeared in a couple of Off-Broadway plays in 1956, Page found her fame & success in modelling, first for camera clubs, then later for commercial redistribution.
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