Now on DVD: BETTIE PAGE REVEALS ALL
Mark Mori’s profile of the life and career of the cult pin-up queen made its debut at the Viva Las Vegas Film Festival in 2012. It went on to screen at DOC NYC, New Orleans, CineKink, LA Indie, Hot Springs Doc, and Atlanta, among other events.
Gaining access to Page before her death in 2008, Mori smartly structures his tribute to the 1950s model around her own retelling of her life story, an often gleeful look back that proves infectious to the audience. Having retired in her early thirties, she doesn’t appear on camera, preferring to allow people to remember her in her heyday – a dark-haired beauty with bangs and a curvy physique with a sense of uninhibitedness. Mori illustrates her biography with a copious amount of archival photos and films featuring Page in her prime, along with the occasional comment from admirers or collaborators, including Playboy‘s Hugh Hefner, photographer Bunny Yeager, and artist Greg Theakston, whose fanzine, The Betty Pages, contributed to the resurgence in her popularity in the 1980s.
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