I havent seen a more misnamed movie. Bettie Page turned out to be an innocent southern belle who is trapped in the web of a difficult life and does what she has to, to survive. Bettie Page, a homely, black eyed and black haired beauty, pin up icon and a infamously famous.
The movie was a combination of black and white and spurts of color. Bettie is a beautiful girl who is god fearing and married to a man who doesn't appreciate her. She leaves him.. for good i might add. She ends up in New York and her tryst with modeling starts with a African American taking some casual pictures of her. From here she goes hunting for work and ends up with a couple who run a "different preferences" store. They tell her she just has to pose in some costumes and that these pictures are for some very influential people who have different preferences. In those days, there were just pictures and no movies containing graphic material. She eventually becomes the pin-up queen. Bettie makes a few friends on the way, taking acting classes to fuel her ambition. This is where she meets her boyfriend who later discovers what kind of modeling Bettie is into.
After the pictures are discovered by the censor board, Paula and Irving are dragged to court and are forced to shut shop. Bettie moves to Miami and discovers a church on a lonely walk on the beach. She is drawn to the church and leaves behind her modeling for a spiritual life.
My Rating= 6.5/10 :)
Bettie Page played by: Gretchen Mol
IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404802/
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