Bettie Page
- Bettie Page was the model photographed in this picture. She gained popularity around the same time as Bunny Yeager for her pin-up girl image. A “pin-up girl” was a lady who had fabulous and coquettish characteristics that commonly belong to the girls in “pin-ups”, now known as posters. Evidently, Page was perceived as a natural beauty with a coquette personality, a combination that caught the eyes of the male population throughout America including photographers and people involved in the film industry. Her involvement in different New York productions started with her participation in an internship at Sea Cliff Summer Theater located on Long Island where she studied acting under the Austrian-American actor Herbert Berghoff. Yeager and Page met and collaborated before the publication of this playboy issue. Their collaboration involved the detailed creation of a photoshoot solely of Bettie Page, which later ended up creating around a thousand photographs of the model each taken by Yeager. Thanks to this collaboration, Page’s name was becoming more famous in the media world. By the year 1955, Bettie Page had officially become the “Miss Pinup Girl of the World”. At that time Page was contacted to make an appearance in Playboy magazine for the centerfold page as a result this image was produced and later published.
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