| 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 Through testimonies and unpublished archives, this documentary brings back to life a body and a face endlessly declined before our eyes, just as Bettie wanted: “I would like people to remember me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.” |
| Release Date: |
Nov 22, 2013 |
| Director: |
Mark Mori
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| Writer: |
Mark Mori,
Doug Miller
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| Genres: |
Documentary
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| Keywords |
women's sexual identity,
icon,
sexual revolution,
biography,
photography,
cult figure,
art,
portrait,
pin-up,
sexual liberation,
1950s,
sexual attitudes,
women's liberation,
last interview,
sexual code,
historical documentary,
woman,
medias
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| Production Companies |
Single Spark Pictures
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| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0
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| Updates |
Updated: Jan 29, 2026
Entered: Apr 20, 2024
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