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Release Date: 9/26/2006
 Original Release: 2006
 Format: DVD
Rating: R (MPAA)
 Rating Reason: (Reason unavailable)
 UPC: 026359329524
 Studio: Warner Home Video
Directed by: Mary Harron
Featuring: Gretchen Mol, Guinevere Turner

Categories: Dramas, Theatrical Release, 1950s, Photographers
Description
Director Mary Harron (I SHOT ANDY WARHOL) and writer Guinevere Turner (GO FISH, THE L WORD) deliver a loving, whimsical biopic of the century's greatest pinup queen. The film also offers a highly relevant commentary on the sexual mores of the 1950s, as well as stunning cinematography by W. Mott Hupfel III that perfectly captures the age. Played by the lovely Gretchen Mol (THE SHAPE OF THINGS) in a career-making performance, Bettie Page is portrayed as a sweet but strangely wise naïf from Tennessee, buffeted by circumstances outside her control but buoyed by an innate, cheerful optimism. After an abusive marriage and a brutal gang rape, Bettie flees to New York and begins a modeling career, for which she has a natural talent and which she does with an uncommon joy and palpable enthusiasm. She also begins acting lessons, but what really changes her life are the bondage photographs she takes with Irving and Paula Klaw (Chris Bauer and Lili Taylor). Shot in the basement of the Klaws' celebrity photography business, Bettie's photographs were among the first harbingers of a society's awakening sexuality, and her ability to project boundless delight--no matter what activity she is engaged in--is truly remarkable to behold. Eschewing the sensational, the film instead unfolds at a leisurely pace, lacking much cohesive narrative and revealing the mundane realities of the life of a notoriously glamorous figure. The story is bookended by the trial the Klaws were subjected to for selling obscene materials, which led to Bettie's retirement to her much-loved Miami getaway and a rediscovered devotion to Jesus.

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Average Rating: 3.38 / 5
Number of Reviews: 4 (view all)
3.5 / 5  Posted on July 9, 2007
Reviewed by: Meghan

Bettie Page was a pinup girl of the 1950's. Of course in that era it was considered hard core porn. But in reality she just posed nude, and it was all tastefully done compared to the porn these days....
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2 / 5  Posted on June 1, 2007
Reviewed by: Movie Addict

I have only seen Gretchen Mol in two other films (Girl 6, Donnie Brasco), and don't really remember her, but she did a great job as a naive girl who posed for pictures because it made people happy....
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4 / 5  Posted on March 14, 2007
Reviewed by: Jessica Film Junkie

This film follows the story of Bettie Page (Gretchen Mol), the Bible-thumping, sexually-abused Tennessee gal who came to New York and made a big splash as the most famous pin-up of all time in the...
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