Released:
2013-11-22

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 Through testimonies and unpublished archives, this documentary brings back to life a body and a face endlessly declined before our eyes, just as Bettie wanted: “I would like people to remember me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.”

Director:
Mark Mori

Runtime:
1h 41min

Genre:
Documentary

• Cast:
• 
  Bettie Page
  as
  Self (Archive footage)
• 
  Dita Von Teese
  as
  Self
• 
  Hugh Hefner
  as
  Self
• 
  Rebecca Romijn
  as
  Self
• 
  Tricia Helfer
  as
  Self