ROCKIN´ TEES

In order to fulfill customer requests, Irving Klaw required that Bettie do at least some bondage or fetish for all of her shoots (Klaw and Bettie were not bdsm enthusiasts themselves). For the setups, the tying of ropes was done by his sister Paula, a trusted friend of Bettie's.

Bettie has said that she enjoyed all of the modeling she did, including the bondage scenes (as well as spanking, wrestling, whipping, dressing up in a leather pony costume, etc.), and did not feel exploited.

Dark Angel is one of the appellations used to refer to Bettie, in this case for her bdsm persona in Irving Klaw's Movie Star News photos and loops. Whether dominant or dominated, she was always adorable.

Other nicknames for Bettie include the Queen of Pin-Ups, the Tease from Tennessee, and the Queen of Curves.

Myra Gale Brown donned unconventional attire for her Dec. 12, 1957, wedding to her second cousin, rock star Jerry Lee Lewis, then 22, in a chapel in Hernando, Miss.

Myra, who was just 13, kept on the shirtwaist dress she wore to her eighth-grade class that morning. "I was a typical 13-year-old—bubble gum, poodle skirt, ponytail. I adored him. He drove me to school if I missed the bus."