Her official page is here, if you can access it. It's down right now.
Snips from the article:
A religious woman in her later life, Page was mystified by her influence on modern popular culture. "I have no idea why I'm the only model who has had so much fame so long after quitting work," she said in an interview with The Times in 2006.
She had one request for that interview: that her face not be photographed.
"I want to be remembered," she said, "as I was when I was young and in my golden times. . . . I want to be remembered as the woman who changed people's perspectives concerning nudity in its natural form."
A YouTube video of vintage Page which has had over a million hits:
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Popular actor Van Johnson, 92, has died of age-related causestoday. Something to note:
While he was driving to a screening at MGM with friends in March 1943, a car ran a red light in a Culver City intersection near the studio and smashed into the side of Johnson's convertible, causing it to roll on its side.
With a fractured skull, severe facial injuries, a severed artery in his neck and bone fragments piercing his brain, Johnson underwent several surgeries. He was left with a severely scarred forehead and ametal plate on the left side of his head, which exempted him from military service.
But his near-fatal accident and three-month hospital stay provided the kind of publicity that not even MGM could buy: The fan magazines ate it up. And his 4-F status allowed him to continue his fledgling movie career at a time when many Hollywood actors were in uniform.
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