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Bunny Yeager's Bettie Page
21st Century Archives - 1994

Notes:  A factory set was issued, with 50 cards plus one BY insert. Thanks
much to Steve Carter for the checklist!

No.   Card Text

  1   The Queen of Curves was born Bettie Mae Page on April 22, 1923 . . .
  2   Bettie was a star student at Nashville's Hume-Fogg High School . . .
  3   As busy as she was during her senior year, Bettie managed to . . .
  4   Bettie met her first husband, Bill Neal, in her senior year of . . .
  5   20th Century Fox imported Bettie from San Francisco and advised . . .
  6   Billy returned from the war in April 1946 and reunited with . . .
  7   After the summer stock season ended, Bettie returned to New . . .
  8   Jerry Tibbs may have been an amateur photographer, but he . . .
  9   Shortly after Tibbs convinced Bettie to start wearing her hair . . .
 10   Robert Harrison's magazines had a lot of dedicated readers who . . .
 11   Fans from all over the world contacted Movie Star News in New . . .
 12   The cheesecake fans immediately recognized Bettie Page as their . . .
 13   Always on the lookout for another way to promote his business, . . .
 14   While her work for Harrison and Irving Klaw represented a large . . .
 15   During the week, the Concord Camera Club photographed in a . . .
 16   By 1953, Bettie had appeared in dozens of Irving Klaw short . . .
 17   Bettie Page loved Florida, and would escape to there whenever . . .
 18   The first teaming of Bunny Yeager and Bettie Page produced a . . .
 19   Bunny Yeager would roar up in front of Bettie Page's place . . .
 20   When Bunny Yeager's color transparencies arrived on Hugh . . .
 21   Bettie returned to Florida in the summer of 1955, and she and . . .
 22   Bettie had found the perfect material for her leopard-skin . . .
 23   Of all the shoots that Bunny and Bettie did, alone or together . . .
 24   During the photo shoot at Africa USA, Bettie and Bunny were . . .
 25   Bunny arranged for an early arrival at the park so that they . . .
 26   "It was like an adventure in Africa.  Bettie and I were very . . .
 27   Bettie's jungle-girl outfit was the result of some teamwork . . .
 28   Because most of the Africa USA shoot features a very covered . . .
 29   The reasons why Bettie left modeling can't be summed up on . . .
 30   Bunny Yeager is one of the top pinup models of all time. . . .
 31   The pattern of Bunny Yeager's life was etched early.  She . . .
 32   Shortly after her arrival in Miami, Yeager enrolled in the . . .
 33   Beauty contests were a common sight in Florida during the . . .
 34   Some of the contests offered great prizes, and it always . . .
 35   By 1950, many of the Miami-based photographers had shot pinups . . .
 36   Early in her career as a pinup model, Bunny Yeager did a . . .
 37   Bunny Yeager made the transition from local to international . . .
 38   If you think that Madonna is like a chameleon when it comes . . .
 39   In late 1952, pinup fans everywhere were shocked to learn . . .
 40   Roy Pinney had traveled the world taking photos of things that . . .
 41   Roy Pinney wrote in U.S. Camera, "Model, Bathing Suit Designer . . .
 42   Even before Bunny saw Bettie Page pose, she knew that she'd . . .
 43   Bunny Yeager was a photographer without a studio.  Her U.S. . . .
 44   While Bettie Page might have been Bunny's favorite model, there . . .
 45   One of Bunny's best models was Bunny herself.  This really . . .
 46   By the late 1950s, Bunny's photographs were being published in . . .
 47   Another outlet for Yeager's talents was the series of paperback . . .
 48   Bunny talked about her relationship with Bettie Page in Bunny . . .
 49   Bunny Yeager had conquered beauty contests, cheesecake . . .
 50   Ask anybody who knows Bunny Yeager and they will tell you that . . .


CHASE CARDS

Bunny Yeager's Girls of the Fifties (1:18 packs)

BY1   Carol Blake
BY2   Maria Stinger
BY3   Nanci White
BY4   Lisa Winters
BY5   Bunny Yeager

Beach Bettie in the Buff Subset (Mail-in offer)

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Uncut Sheet

 --   (50-card panel)


PROMO CARD

 P1   (Bettie, hanging from tree; dealer promo)

©2002 Jeff Allender. Comments, updates, & corrections are welcomed!

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