By Daily Mail Reporter. Decades after they were hidden away when Washington politicians blamed them for corrupting a nation's youth, rare photographs of 50s pinup queen Bettie Page are finally being released for auction. Page, who maintains a cult following decades after she stopped posing, is still considered a powerful influence on pop icons from Madonna to Katy Perry due to her iconic bangs and appearance in images that celebrated bondage. While relatively tame by today's standards, McCarthy-era politicians thought the images were contributing to juvenile delinquency and a senate subcommittee investigation into the subject summoned her but never asked her to testify. Photographer Irving Klaw, credited with creating fetish pinups, was so afraid of repercussions after being called to testify at the hearing that he destroyed roughly 80 per cent of the prints and negatives featuring Page and closed his business. Luckily Klaw's sister, Paula, hid some away, which are now being offered at auction by Guernsey along with the couple's massive Movie Star News Collection of images of screen icons like Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe, the Daily News reports. Page retired from modeling, and in later life became a born-again Christian even working for the Rev.


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In , she moved from San Francisco to Port-au-Prince, Haiti , where she felt a special affinity with the country, its people and its culture. In the meantime, she supported herself by working as a secretary overlooking Rockefeller Center. He helped her with a portfolio and her first cover was that of a Harlem newsprint magazine. It was Officer Tibbs who suggested to Bettie that she style her hair with bangs in front, to keep light from reflecting off her high forehead when being photographed. Bangs soon became an integral part of her distinctive look.
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Jersey City, New Jersey After the death of Mr. Klaw in , his sister Pauline sold about 70 sets of flats to Ed Mishkin, who had been a prolific publisher of controversial adult materials since the early s. Flats contained the films with which offset plates were burned. Mishkin was publishing Mutrix booklets in Jersey City, at the time the flats were delivered, and 70 of his Mutrix titles were second printings of Nutrix booklets. This item shows Nutrix on the title page and Mutrix on the front cover. The Mutrix printings advertised Mr. But front and back inside covers of this edition show advertising for Candor, Inc. Candor was the corporate successor to Mr.