Bettie Page Reveals All
2012, Film, 101 min, Biography, Documentary, English, United States, MoviePedia score 66
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 Through testimonies and unpublished archives, this documentary brings back to life a body and a face endlessly declined before our eyes, just as Bettie wanted: “I would like people to remember me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.”
Directed by Mark Mori
Cast
- Bettie Page as Self
- Hugh Hefner as Self - Founder, Playboy Enterprises
- Olivia de Berardinis as Self - Pin-Up Artist
- Dita Von Teese as Self - Burlesque Performer
- Greg Theakston as Self - Publisher, The Betty Pages
- Mark Mori as Self - Director
- Perez Hilton as Self - Celebrity Blogger
- Todd Oldham as Self - Fashion Designer
- Tricia Helfer as Self - Actress & Model
- Laetitia Casta as Self - Actress & Model
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