Plot
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 Through testimonies and unpublished archives, this documentary brings back to life a body and a face endlessly declined before our eyes, just as Bettie wanted: “I would like people to remember me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.”
Cast
Bettie Page
Self (Archive footage)
Dita Von Teese
Self
Hugh Hefner
Self
Rebecca Romijn
Self
Tricia Helfer
Self
Tempest Storm
Self
Bunny Yeager
Self
Mamie Van Doren
Self
Paula Klaw
Self
Naomi Campbell
Self
Irving Klaw
Self (Archive footage)
Perez Hilton
Self
Crew
Mark Mori
Director
Mark Mori
Producer
Doug Miller
Writer
Mark Mori
Writer
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