Bettie Page Reveals All
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 Through testimonies and unpublished archives, this documentary brings back to life a body and a face endlessly declined before our eyes, just as Bettie wanted: “I would like people to remember me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.”
- Year: 2013
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary, History
- Studio: Single Spark Pictures
- Keyword: women's sexual identity, icon, sexual revolution, biography, cult figure, pin-up, sexual liberation, 1950s, sexual attitudes, women's liberation, last interview, sexual code, historical documentary, biographical documentary
- Director: Mark Mori
- Cast: Bettie Page, Dita Von Teese, Hugh Hefner, Rebecca Romijn, Tricia Helfer, Tempest Storm
