50 years of US pin-ups

LAST UPDATED AT 00:00 ON Fri 12 Dec 2008

Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) pouting in 1956. Monroe was a singer and film actress who famously claimed that she got into glamour modelling to pay the rent. Right: A Marilyn Monroe Playboy front cover from 1997, 46 years after her death.

From Bettie Page, who died this week, to Jennifer Aniston, GQ's latest cover girl