22/11/2013
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 Through testimonies and unpublished archives, this documentary brings back to life a body and a face endlessly declined before our eyes, just as Bettie wanted: “I would like people to remember me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.”
Bettie Page
as Self
Dita Von Teese
as Self
Hugh Hefner
as Self
Rebecca Romijn
as Self
Tricia Helfer
as Self
Tempest Storm
as Self
Bunny Yeager
as Self
Mamie Van Doren
as Self
Paula Klaw
as Self
Naomi Campbell
as Self
Irving Klaw
as Self (archive footage)
Perez Hilton
as Self
Laetitia Casta
as Self
Lady Gaga
as Self (archive footage)
Shalom Harlow
as Self
Christina Aguilera
as Self (archive footage)
Julie Newmar
as Self
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