jamesthehorse Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 Seems she doesn’t allow photographs these days. But what a legend!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purgatori Posted May 28, 2008 Share Posted May 28, 2008 I can only agree with you!! What a legend!!! It would be a dream come true for me who love the 50's to get to meet her and have an autograph from her!! Thanks for giving this idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joule Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 Great idea !!!! i would like to meet her....please !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Dawson's Express Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 (edited) ...and if you are a space fan, the following may be of interest.... There is a NASA legend that in 1952, the famous stripper Bettie Page did a private show for the German rocket scientists stationed at Redstone Arsenal, in Huntsville, Alabama. After months of shooting off captured V-2s topped by WAC Corporals in hopes of making 2-stage rockets (many of which failed miserably), the boys wanted to unwind. One of them, we don't know who, was a devotee of American burlesque and was spellbound by Bettie Page. He had seen some of her stag loops and thereafter she filled his dreams. Feeling a little nostalgic, the group devised a one-night revue, The Woman In the Moon, after the 1929 German movie of the same name. The movie had a special resonance with the scientists since some of them, including Hermann Oberth, Willy Ley, and Wernher von Braun, had been technical advisors to director Fritz Lang. Nothing was too good for our pet rocket scientists. In an anonymous room at the Arsenal, on a set that resembled by turns the interior of a rocket and a moonscape, Ms. Page did a burlesque act interpreting the movie. She played Friede, one of the crew members, while Ley and von Braun played her fiance (Windegger) and lover (Helius), respectively. When Friede and Helius embraced on the moon as the ship returned to earth without them, there was not a dry eye in the house. According to accounts by the lucky support workers who worked the show as stagehands, the revue was not as spicy as Bettie's usual act. Though some of the German scientists might have known of Count Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (to von Braun, a fellow blue-blood), these old-fashioned types did not share his tastes (not for them the varied delights of Weimar Berlin; once a nerd, always a nerd). Relics from the show--such as costumes and props--are impossible to find and may be lost to history. I heard the story from someone who had worked on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1975), but had heard it from older colleagues who'd worked with von Braun and the others in the Mercury project days (1962-63). Bettie Page, though still alive, will carry this secret to her grave. I can not for the life of me find on the www where I found this so sorry I can not credit it, but I guess you fans of Bettie AND Space flight would agree it is a interesting story Regards all von Dawson's Express Edited June 17, 2008 by von Dawson's Express Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
descartes Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 ...and if you are a space fan, the following may be of interest.... There is a NASA legend that in 1952, the famous stripper Bettie Page did a private show for the German rocket scientists stationed at Redstone Arsenal, in Huntsville, Alabama. After months of shooting off captured V-2s topped by WAC Corporals in hopes of making 2-stage rockets (many of which failed miserably), the boys wanted to unwind. One of them, we don't know who, was a devotee of American burlesque and was spellbound by Bettie Page. He had seen some of her stag loops and thereafter she filled his dreams. Feeling a little nostalgic, the group devised a one-night revue, The Woman In the Moon, after the 1929 German movie of the same name. The movie had a special resonance with the scientists since some of them, including Hermann Oberth, Willy Ley, and Wernher von Braun, had been technical advisors to director Fritz Lang. Nothing was too good for our pet rocket scientists. In an anonymous room at the Arsenal, on a set that resembled by turns the interior of a rocket and a moonscape, Ms. Page did a burlesque act interpreting the movie. She played Friede, one of the crew members, while Ley and von Braun played her fiance (Windegger) and lover (Helius), respectively. When Friede and Helius embraced on the moon as the ship returned to earth without them, there was not a dry eye in the house. According to accounts by the lucky support workers who worked the show as stagehands, the revue was not as spicy as Bettie's usual act. Though some of the German scientists might have known of Count Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (to von Braun, a fellow blue-blood), these old-fashioned types did not share his tastes (not for them the varied delights of Weimar Berlin; once a nerd, always a nerd). Relics from the show--such as costumes and props--are impossible to find and may be lost to history. I heard the story from someone who had worked on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1975), but had heard it from older colleagues who'd worked with von Braun and the others in the Mercury project days (1962-63). Bettie Page, though still alive, will carry this secret to her grave. I can not for the life of me find on the www where I found this so sorry I can not credit it, but I guess you fans of Bettie AND Space flight would agree it is a interesting story Regards all von Dawson's Express Thanks von Dawson's Express. I love this story and had come across it some time ago while idly surfing the net. My original exposure to it was at the following: http://www.vermilion-sands.com/rantlib/bettie.html where the item was called 'Die Frau im Mond'. I had rather forgotten about it, so thanks for bringing it back to my attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintageSW77 Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 yip its a long shot though any chance of Dita Von Teese and any Russ Mayer chicks too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Dawson's Express Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 Thanks von Dawson's Express. I love this story and had come across it some time ago while idly surfing the net. My original exposure to it was at the following: http://www.vermilion-sands.com/rantlib/bettie.html where the item was called 'Die Frau im Mond'. I had rather forgotten about it, so thanks for bringing it back to my attention. Thank you for your words and glad to be of service! Bests von Dawson's Express mmmm... Russ Mayer.... How about Francis 'Kitten' Natividad? Pat 'Aunty Jane' Wynn and her friend Sheila Harrison?? Or any of the Ultra Vixens and models from the '60's and '70's??? Regards all von Dawson's Express Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovbug Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 lov bettie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purgatori Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 yip its a long shot though any chance of Dita Von Teese and any Russ Mayer chicks too yeah and Tura Satana ... would be awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckman Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 yip its a long shot though any chance of Dita Von Teese and any Russ Mayer chicks too yeah and Tura Satana ... would be awesome Yes please to Bettie Page or/and Tura Satana! But if we are going for a Bettie Page Russ Mayer hook here… how about Tempest Storm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForAllMankind Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 (edited) Kitten Natividad ??? Edited July 3, 2008 by ForAllMankind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckman Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 Another great suggestion and I’m now seeing a pattern here… However, considering how we will be so close to Halloween might I suggest Ingrid Pitt, Valerie Leon or Cassandra Peterson aka Elvira? Well the hammer Horror ladies in genreal really... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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