Persons of note - Bettie Page

After researching into my three given people, I have chosen to focus my project around Bettie Page. Through my initial research, I find her life really interesting and I am looking forward to learning more about her.

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Further Research;

• Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22, 1923, in Nashville, Tennessee.
• She married Billy Neal in 1943, and the couple moved to San Francisco, California, where Page launched her modeling career.
• After divorcing Billy in 1947 and moving to New York, Bettie Page worked with a photographer to produce the first of many pin-up calendars. Within months, she was posing for national magazines, including the centerfold of January 1955's Playboy.
• 'Pin up queen'
• She was a living icon - unique. Signature black hair with short fringe. deep blue eyes.
•  She originally aspired to be in acting, but her success was primarily in modeling. She moved to Florida to work with several influential photographers and married her second husband, Armond Walterson, in 1958. A third marriage to Harry Lear would also end in divorce.
• In the 1960s, Bettie Page mysteriously disappeared from the limelight and was said to have suffered from severe mental problems. Two films have been created about her life: 2004's Bettie Page: Dark Angel starring Paige Richards and 2005's The Notorious Bettie Page, with Gretchen Mol.

• She became a devout christian and suffered a break down. - she remained Christian until death - but at one point in her life had a psychotic break. - she began hearing voices. - once held her husband and children at knife point and years later stabbed her landlady. - put into psychiatric ward.
• She endured a horrendous gang rape in new york city. - not long after move man offered to take her dancing - instead driven to seclusion and raped.
• Really smart. - graduated second in huh school.
• Tough childhood -molestered by father. - orphanage for three years.

How I intend to approach this brief;
- better with time. balance my time. 
- want to push my abilities - but also need to be realistic about meeting the deadline.
- were to take it next? drawing bettie page - try to use variety of media from initial stage! experiment.
- Plan roughs - think about themes, what i want to say about her? how am i going to do this? - unique, representation, obvious?