Bettie Page Reveals All

Nov 22, 2013

1h 41m

★ 6.7

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 Through testimonies and unpublished archives, this documentary brings back to life a body and a face endlessly declined before our eyes, just as Bettie wanted: “I would like people to remember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

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Single Spark Pictures

Bettie Page Reveals All Trailers

Cast

Self (Archive footage)

Bettie Page

Self

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 (Archive footage)

Irving Klaw

Self

Perez Hilton

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