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Release Date:
21 April 2006 (Canada) moreTagline:
The Pin-Up Sensation That Shocked The Nation. morePlot:
The story of Bettie Page, uber-successful 1950's pin-up model, one of the first sex icons in America, and the target of a Senate investigation (based on her bondage photos). full summary | add synopsisAwards:
2 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(23 articles)
Birthday Suits: Immortal Beloveds (From FilmExperience. 8 November 2009, 6:27 AM, PST)
Director Mary Harron Reflects on the Ecstatic, Underrated Notorious Bettie Page
(From Movieline. 25 September 2009, 10:30 AM, PDT)
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The Truth About Sex in America more (84 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Gretchen Mol | ... | Bettie Page | |
| Chris Bauer | ... | Irving Klaw | |
| Jared Harris | ... | John Willie | |
| Sarah Paulson | ... | Bunny Yeager | |
| Cara Seymour | ... | Maxie | |
| David Strathairn | ... | Estes Kefauver | |
| Lili Taylor | ... | Paula Klaw | |
| John Cullum | ... | Preacher in Nashville | |
| Matt McGrath | ... | Nervous Man | |
| Austin Pendleton | ... | Teacher | |
| Norman Reedus | ... | Billy Neal | |
| Dallas Roberts | ... | Scotty | |
| Victor Slezak | ... | Minister in Miami | |
| Tara Subkoff | ... | June | |
| Kevin Carroll | ... | Jerry Tibbs |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
The Ballad of Bettie Page (USA) (working title)The Last Days of Bettie Page (USA) (working title)
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Rated R for nudity, sexual content and some language.Parents Guide:
View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
USA:91 min | Canada:100 min (Toronto International Film Festival)Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishAspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Dolby DigitalCertification:
USA:R | Canada:14A (British Columbia) | UK:18 | Ireland:15A | Australia:MA | Japan:R-15 | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Portugal:M/16Fun Stuff
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Director Trademark: [Mary Harron] [masochistic man]In "I Shot Andy Warhol," Valerie Solanas encounters a man who wants her to stomp all over his chest. In "The Notorious Bettie Page," Bettie Page meets a man at a party who asks her if she likes stomping on men. The two men say almost the exact same things, word for word. moreGoofs:
Factual errors: During one of the scenes where photographers at a photo club are shooting Bettie Page, there are a few photographers with a Stereo Realist camera, which was very popular in the '50s. One of these photographers is holding his Stereo Realist in a vertical position and taking pictures and this camera must be used only in the horizontal position due to it being 3D and a vertical image will not produce the desired 3D result. Realists are never used vertically. moreQuotes:
[Bettie reacts angrily when John sings a ribald song during a bondage photo shoot]John Willie: What's the matter, Bettie?
[John pulls the gag from Bettie's mouth]
Bettie Page: It's your language, Mr. Willie.
John Willie: Oh, it's just an old army ditty to help keep our spirits up while fighting the beastly Hun. Do you approve?
Bettie Page: I believe in Jesus.
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It's a Good Day moreFAQ
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Canadian filmmaker Mary Harron is a cultural gadfly whose previous films laid bare some the artistic excess of the Sixties and the hollow avaricious Eighties. With "The Notorious Bettie Page" she points her unswerving eye at Fifties America, an era cloaked in the moral righteousness of Joe McCarthy, while experiencing the beginnings of a sexual awakening that would result in the free love of the next decade. Harron and her co-writer Guinevere Turner, are clearly not interested in the standard biopic of a sex symbol. This is a film about the underground icon of an era and how her pure unashamed sexuality revealed both the predatory instincts and impure thoughts of a culture untouched by the beauty of a nude body. If the details of Bettie's life were all the film was concerned about, then why end it before her most tragic period was about to begin. Clearly, Harron is more interested in America's attitudes towards sexual imagery then and now. Together with a fearless lead performance by Gretchen Mol and the stunningly atmospheric cinematography of W.Mott Hupfel III, she accomplishes this goal admirably, holding up a mirror to the past while making the audience examine their own "enlightened" 21st Century attitudes towards so-called pornography. As America suffocates under a new conservatism, this is a film needed more than ever.