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 Through testimonies and unpublished archives, this documentary brings back to life a body and a face endlessly declined before our eyes, just as Bettie wanted: “I would like people to remember me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.”
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- Bettie PageSelf (Archive footage)
- Dita Von TeeseSelf
- Hugh HefnerSelf
- Rebecca RomijnSelf
- Tricia HelferSelf
- Tempest StormSelf
- Bunny YeagerSelf
- Mamie Van DorenSelf
- Paula KlawSelf
- Naomi CampbellSelf
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- Mark MoriDirector
- Doug MillerWriter
- Mark MoriWriter
- Doug MillerEditor
- Julie ChabotEditor
- Jay MiracleEditor
- Mark MoriProducer
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