The Notorious Bettie Page
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| Directed by | Mary Harron |
| Produced by | Pamela Koffler Katie Roumel Christine Vachon Mary Harron Guinevere Turner John Wells |
| Written by | Mary Harron Guinevere Turner |
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Gretchen Mol Chris Bauer Lili Taylor Jared Harris |
| Music by | Mark Suozzo |
| Cinematography | W. Mott Hupfel III |
| Edited by | Tricia Cooke |
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| Distributed by | Picturehouse |
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91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,778,006 |
The Notorious Bettie Page is a 2005 biographical film directed by Mary Harron. The screenplay by Harron and Guinevere Turner focuses on 1950s pinup and bondage model Bettie Page.
Bettie Page is an ambitious, naïve, and devout young Christian woman who longs to leave Nashville, Tennessee, following a childhood of sexual abuse, a failed wartime marriage, and a gang rape. In 1949, she departs for New York City, where she enrolls in an acting class. Amateur photographer Jerry Tibbs discovers her walking on the beach at Coney Island and she agrees to model for him. He suggests she restyle her hair with the bangs that would become her trademark.
Bettie becomes a favorite of nature photographers (including Bunny Yeager, who films her posing with two leopards), and she has no hesitation about removing her clothes for the photographers when asked. Before long images of the shapely brunette reach brother-and-sister entrepreneurs Paula and Irving Klaw, who run a respectable business selling movie stills and memorabilia, but also deal with fetish photos, magazines, and 8- and 16-millimeter films for additional income. Their top model Maxie takes Bettie under her wing, and she soon finds herself wearing leather corsets and thigh-high boots while wielding whips and chains for photographer John Willie, frequently at the request of Little John, a mild-mannered attorney with unusual tastes. Bettie is innocently unaware of the sexual nature of the images that rapidly are making her a star in the underground world of bondage aficionados.
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