Bettie Page Reveals All
2013 · 101 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 1,675 VOTES · DIR. Mark Mori
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 Through testimonies and unpublished archives, this documentary brings back to life a body and a face endlessly declined before our eyes, just as Bettie wanted: “I would like people to remember me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.”
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00:00:22 Ladies and Gentlemen, here she is now.
00:04:48 with the image that she projects in these photographs?
00:11:25 And this fella, he took a lot of pictures of me
00:15:21 Well, we stopped at a red light, and two guys jumped in the car.
00:19:35 So I went home and cut me some.
00:23:15 Designed cars, watches, extremely well known designer.
00:27:43 And guess what I was wearing?
00:31:42 I've seen her work
00:36:33 Heinlein: The photographers all sort of gravitated to Bettie Page.
00:41:00 That was considered going too far.
00:44:47 ( whip cracks )
00:49:12 I wanted to keep in shape for my modeling.
00:53:25 Bettie: Back in New York
00:58:04 and not be thought of as a tramp
01:02:16 But I didn't.
01:06:35 blow it up bigger than life-size in a beautiful oil painting
01:10:32 'cause we spent a lot of time going around the country
01:14:19 ( Bettie chuckles )
01:18:06 I had the thing annulled right away
01:21:59 Harry: She wanted to start going to church again.
01:26:10 I had just enough to get to California at the time.
01:30:22 so discreet, no cameras.
01:34:14 Very popular in England
01:39:04 It's been so many years. This is Paula Klaw, how are you?