Overview
The world's greatest pin-up model and cult icon, Bettie Page, recounts the true story of how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to help launch America's sexual revolution. When she saw the film The Notorious Bettie Page, produced by HBO in 2006, the main person concerned reacted unequivocally: “Lies! Lies!” In a long interview recorded shortly before her death, the woman who entered the collective unconscious as the ultimate pin-up gave her version of events to director Mark Mori. In a gravelly voice, Bettie Page tells her own story and lifts the veil on areas often hidden by images that have made so many men and women fantasize since the 1950s: her abused childhood, an eclipse that lasted forty years, her mental illness. Through testimonies and unpublished archives, this documentary brings back to life a body and a face endlessly declined before our eyes, just as Bettie wanted: “I would like people to remember me as I was in the photos.”
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 22, 2013
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Single Spark Pictures,Music Box Films
- Cast
- Bettie Page,Dita Von Teese,Hugh Hefner,Rebecca Romijn,Tricia Helfer,Tempest Storm,Bunny Yeager,Mamie Van Doren,Paula Klaw,Naomi Campbelland 9 more
- Director
- Mark Mori
- Writer
- Doug Miller,Mark Mori
- Producer
- Mark Mori,Thorpe Mori
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- View on IMDb