"Bettie Page Reveals All" opens in select theaters on November 22 in New York, on November 29 in Los Angeles, and more cities thereafter. And while she titillated men in the '50s, her fan base is just a strong, if not stronger among women who emulate her look. Long after Page posed for photographers, her image endures. "The whole Bettie Page phenomenon developed while she was simply off the scene," Hugh Hefner observes in the trailer. While she reinvented herself behind the scenes, Page's pinup image endured. The model found herself drawn to Christianity, quit her profession, and eventually wound up attending three bible collages. "I'm not indecent, I will not plead guilty to it! You’ll have to charge me with disturbing the peace, too!" Page has been quoted as saying. Her later life was marked by depression, violent mood swings and several years in a state psychiatric. Page casually notes in the doc her appeal among males: "For some reason, men like to see girls spankin' the other one."īut when it came to getting rid of her photos, she wouldn't do it. Bettie Page News from United Press International. Watch Exclusive Trailer for 'Bettie Page Reveals All':Īt one point, the trailer eludes to a court case in which Page was embroiled over her sexy pinup images, and a judge calling for her to destroy the negatives of her photos. Yahoo Movies debuts the new trailer for the biographical documentary "Bettie Page Reveals All." which includes the voice of the late sex icon herself - no small feat as Page, who died in 2008 at the age of 85, spent most of her life hiding from the spotlight. Rockabilly ladies were rocking the look, and before Von Teese was even born, Bettie Page - the woman - was an infamous pinup model.
You Talk Funny Speaking of Tennessee, Page spent part of her young adult life trying to suppress her accent. Her birth name was Betty Mae Page, though she would spell her first name as Bettie from when she was a child.
"It's sort of confusing whether she was a real person or not," says contemporary pinup icon, Dita Von Teese, herself a notable proponent of the Page style. Welcome to the World Page was born on April 22, 1923, in Nashville, Tennessee. Who the woman behind the look was, however, is a question that's been shrouded in mystery for decades. After a three-week battle with pneumonia, Bettie Page suffered a deadly heart attack at age 85 on December 11, 2008. When someone says "Bettie Page" nowadays they're more-often-than-not referring to a woman's fashion statement built around jet black hair with blunt bangs and fire engine red lipstick. Her look is universally known while she herself remains an enigma.
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