Bettie Page Reveals All

Many facts I did not know.

Worth a purchase.

I'm sure many of Bettie Page's legions of fans would agree that they fell in love with her the moment they laid eyes on her. For me, that happened in the mid Nineteen-Eighties when the late comic book artist Dave Stevens helped to stir up a revived interest in her. Even though her whereabouts were unknown at the time and she was obviously many years my senior, my impression of the sweet personality conveyed by her images always made me feel like maybe I could have won her heart, if only we had been contemporaries. I'll bet a lot of guys had similar feelings. This excellent documentary brought back a lot of those bittersweet feelings, and at the same time made me very happy that Bettie got a chance to tell her story before she died. Even as an older woman in her eighties, she isn't ashamed to admit that she enjoyed her sexuality as a younger woman. And even though deeply religious, she was still proud of her career as a pin-up model. She lived a life that had no shortage of hardships, and yet she clearly had no regrets. This documentary is a loving portrait of a beautiful woman who truly had a Joie de vivre, and it's a joy that carries over to the viewer. This is one movie I will revisit time and time again.

Although it is very disconcerting to hear Bettie's voice (old-lady Tennessee drawl) as she narrates her own life story, this documentary earns top marks for its completeness, its forthrightness about Bettie's many personal struggles, and, most of all, for its generous sampling of her visual charms in many provocative still photos and in numerous "wiggle" videos. Plus, the soundtrack is excellent; thanks to the inclusion of an instrumental called "Casbah" by a kooky surf-guitar group called Los Straitjackets, I discovered a "new" group that has been around for over 25 years.Bettie--Your smile (and everything else) will be around forever.P.S. to too many people around the world: Please note that, unlike you, I have spelled "its" correctly.

Ya know you see this chick since you were a kid, she exemplified the perfect wife.... betty crocker in the kitchen and betty paige in the bedroom... however watch this and feel gilty for your dirty brain

To many of us, Bettie Page is an icon, a beautiful woman captured in time. But she was a human being just like us, and in this documentary we see how human she was. In an interview taken before she died, Bettie tells us of her childhood in Tennessee and her molestation by her father, her rocky marriage to her teenage sweetheart (and eventual divorce), being discovered in New York by a Coney Island African-American cop, her career in Irving and Paula Klaw's Movie Star News, her session in Congress interviewed by Senator Keufaver, her disastrous second marriage, finding religion, her stint in and out of mental hospitals, and the rediscovery of her fans and her influence on pop culture as a whole. Interspersed with her interview are comments by Paula Klaw, noted pinup photographer Bunny Yeager, Hugh Hefner, and many others. For a sneak peek into the life of one of the most beautiful cultural icons, this documentary is a must.

If you're a fan of Betty Page or Pin Ups, you might like this movie. If you're looking for something else, maybe not. Bettie Page, herself, is interviewed.

I thought the movie was very poor in quality. Much of the movie was not in blue ray as I had expected. So I returned the item and received a refund. I would not recommend this Blu-ray DVD unless someone is just interested in seeing photographs of Bettie Page which most of the DVD was about.