Bettie Page is the queen of the pin-up and the queen of our hearts. Bettie has reached a cult status far beyond any glamour girl. With a coy smile and a twinkle in her eyes, Bettie embodied all the playful elements of the glamour era. In the 1950's you couldn't open a men's magazine without finding some picture of Bettie. Whereas other pin-up girls had other ambitions (dancer, actress, etc...), Bettie was happy just posing for pictures. In her early career she posed mostly for fetish photographer Irving Klaw and with him made the famous burlesque-on-screen movie "Teaserama" with stripper Tempest Storm. Later in her career, Bettie became a model for fellow pin-up star Bunny Yeager. It was with Yeager that Bettie made her famous Playboy photos including a centerfold shoot used in a 1955 issue. By the end of the 1950's Bettie basically quit the modeling life and faded out of sight. Recently there has been renewed interest in her life story with many tell-all biographies available as well as some great coffee table photo books. Ironically, up until recently Bettie herself was unaware of her own cult status. When it is all said and done, Bettie was, and still is the best! It would be too easy to turn this whole site into a shrine to Bettie. She is the girl-next-door in stiletto heels. And she is, by far, the best pin-up that ever was!
 

See also:
"Bettie Page--Queen of Hearts" by Jim Silke
"Betty (sic) Page--Queen of Pin-ups" by Benedikt Taschen
"The Best of American Girlie Magazines" by Burkhard Riemschneider & Harald Hellmann
"Va Va Voom!" by Steve Sullivan