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Source: Film Comment; May/Jun2004, Vol. 40 Issue 3, p6-6, 1/9p, 1 Black and White Photograph Document Type: Article Subject Terms: *MOTION pictures *MOTION picture producers & directors Company/Entity: KILLER Films Inc. DUNS Number: 933971780 Reviews & Products: BALLAD of Bettie Page, The (Film) NAICS/Industry Codes: 711510 Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers 512110 Motion Picture and Video Production People: PAGE, Bettie HARRON, Mary Abstract: Reports that director Mary Harron will team up with Killer Films to create the movie "The Ballad of Bettie Page," which focuses on the life and crimes of 1950s pin-up icon Bettie Page. Actors appearing in the movie. ISSN: 0015119X Accession Number: 13124982 Database: Academic Search Premier

Bettie Page, the brunette pinup queen with a shoulder-length pageboy hairdo and kitschy bangs whose saucy photos helped usher in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, has died. She was 85. Page, whose later life was marked by depression, violent mood swings and several years in a state mental institution, died last night at Kindred Hospital in Los Angeles, where she had been on life support since suffering a heart attack Dec. 2, according to her agent, Mark Roesler. A cult figure, Page was most famous for the thousands of glossy photographs taken by amateur shutterbugs from 1949 to 1957. The photos showed her in high heels and bikinis or negligees, bondage apparel - or nothing at all. Decades later, those images inspired comic books, fan clubs, websites, commercial products and, in 2005, a film about her life and times, The Notorious Bettie Page.

Credit: Canwest News Service; LOS ANGELES Times

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