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Betty Page Confidential

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I fell in love or lust with Bettie when my hormones arrived about 1955. This book is well worth the price as Bunny's photos of Bettie are among the best. Bettie belonged outdoors! The Klaw photos are fine; it was hard to take a bad picture of Bettie, but she was,to me, the ultimate "beach brunette"! I recognize the problem with the book title, it leads you believe it's some kind of "Bettie expose'", but beyond that it's a great photo-record of some of Bettie's and Bunny's best work. If your a Bettie Page fan old or new, this one is a must!

This book has inaccuracies in its limited text. Bettie Page was not born in Kingsport Tennessee, but some 300 miles away in Nashville, Tennessee. Bettie's eyes were blue, not brown. Do not believe much of the text in this book as it is not endorsed by Bettie and contains much misinformation about her life.

However, if you want some great Bettie photos, this is the book to purchase! I much prefer her lighter fun photos to her Irving Klaw bondage photos.

This book is a compilation of original Betty Page photos taken by Bunny Yeager. It's mostly pictures (all b&w), with some biographical sketches included. I have no idea if the text is accurate, but the pictures are pretty decent and certainly does justice to Betty Page's classicically sensual looks. Since these are just pictures of one photographer, you pretty much get only one particular style, and many of the pictures are beach shots. Given Betty Page's status in the American entertainment history, this is a good book to have.

Wow. I was looking for a coffee table book for the bachlor pad I share with my roommates. Not wanting hardcore porn I thought Betty Page would be tasteful without being pretentious. In fact its perfect. Everyone loves it, and we don't come off as perverts. Oh, yeah. She looks amazing. The photos are stunning. A very few a bondage but mostly tongue in cheek. Highy recommended.

I was slightly disappointed to find that this book was 95% pictures, all be it very nice paperback prints of the pictures. It is a worth while buy if you don't have an extensive collection of Betty Page pictures. There are a few pages collecting the publication dates of magazines that featured Betty in someway and a few pages noting the filmshorts she did with Irvin Klaw etc.

I didn't spot any out of the ordinary pictures in the book, mostly the kind that turn up in the card collector sets with a couple of candid shots showing the filming crew. Not a bad book over all but not so much a read as a flick though picture book.

The time-worn cliche "a picture is worth a thousand words" fittingly describes this book, because that is about all you get -- pictures. If you really want to know more about Bettie Page, you may be disappointed. It does offer many photos of this captivating pin-up vixen, but I was rather disappointed to find that all of them were black and white. It is a quick and easy read/look through. If you are looking for more detailed information about Bettie Page, or a picture book with nice glossy photos to set on your coffee table, this may not be the book for you. However, if you are a Bettie Page fan looking for a fun, entertaining no-brainer sort of book with lots of great photos, it is a worthwhile starting point.

The book is ok...lots of pics. Not a fan of her "surprised" look or the silly stuff. Then again that's not my style. I like Betty for the simple fact she shows a real woman's body. Not airbrushed, not edited, you can see the pics of her on the boat or by the ferris wheel that her, how should I say it..."backside" has small dimples and lines. That of a human being, not a photoshopped plastic image of today. Keep it Real! I was going to return it but I flipped thru it again and decided to keep it. It's a good reality check when I start to feel frumpy that I'm not meant to be flawless, I'm meant to be a woman.

I bought this for my husband and he is very pleased with it. She was one of his favorites. He has read the book several times now.

This book was given to me as a gift from my boyfriend, love the pictures most of which are black and white. I did find a problem with a bit of the biography on Bettie being well researched. The pictures are great thought.

Bettie was one of the greatest pin-up models of all time, and this book, with photos by the equally great Bunny Yeager, represents her at her finest and most beautiful. Bunny, a former model herself, had a way of bringing out the best in her subjects, and the rapport the two shared is clearly evident here. The commentary is pretty good as well. Buy it!