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Gretchen Mol (Actor), Chris Bauer (Actor), Mary Harron (Director) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Gretchen Mol, Chris Bauer, Jared Harris, David Strathairn, Lili Taylor
  • Directors: Mary Harron
  • Format: PAL, Anamorphic, Colour, Black & White, Dolby
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Icon Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 19 Mar. 2007
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000MX7YGI
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 8,564 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Biopic of the rise and fall of the original '50s burlesque queen/ pin up girl, Bettie Paige. How did a plain, innocent young girl from Kingsport, Tennessee come to be the subject of a senate hearing and the talk of a nation that really should have had more to think about, given the times? It's a long story and here we are given a whistle-stop tour of the route taken by Bettie Page from bespectacled secretary to the whipcracking bondage vixen in the photo hanging on a few hundred thousand locker doors. At first Bettie, with typical dreams of movie stardom poses for camera clubs which she thinks acceptable, since the pictures are guaranteed not for publication. Her chance meeting with pornographer Herb Klaw, changes all that - Herb is secretly publishing and distributing magazines with names like Titter and Wink and flirting with legality in an ultra-right-Christian climate. The innocent Bettie is soon the nation's top pin-up and moving in high society but the law has its eye on Klaw. A senate hearing into juvenile delinquency, of all things, is where Klaw meets trouble and Bettie looks set to go down with him.

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4.0 out of 5 starsLovely film about a lovely lady
By Charles G. on 25 Feb. 2011
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This film shows how Betty Page got into Topless and nude modelling as well as some rather tame bondage with a very innocent view of the world. it is only after doing it for several years that she even starts to question the ethics of it. By today's standards it is all rather harmless, but I suppose back then it would be considered scandalous.

Anyway Gretchen Mol seems to have been made to play this part, it is very hard to tell her from the real thing when comparing stills from the film with the real Betty Page. She sheds her clothes without the least hint of embarrassment and does the poses exactly as you see in the old pictures from the time.

The film doesn't tell you too much about Betty, so couldn't be considered a Biopic, however I suppose the film maker wanted to tell us about what made her famous, how she got there, and why she stopped. In this respect the film succeeds.

i liked it a lot, Gretchen being a big part of the attraction.
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4.0 out of 5 starsA thought-provoking story of the 50s pin-up icon
By Les Williams TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 3 Sept. 2009
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The cover pronounces "terrific...thrillingly sexy" and carries an 18 certificate but if you expect anything prurient you will be disappointed, Madonna wore what Bettie did 40 years later without comment and I'm not sure why it deserved the 18 certificate.
What you do have is a thoughtful and sympathetic movie detailing Bettie Page's life, filled with believable, well-acted characters.

Gretchen Mol plays Bettie Page and imbues the character with sufficient mystery and innocence that at the end of the movie you are left wondering how much Bettie really knew, was she just "dressing-up" or was it some kind of "pay-back".
The movie is mainly in black and white with occasional colour, this works really well in setting the period and gives the film the required atmosphere, it wouldn't have worked in colour.
It's a good movie.
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3.0 out of 5 starsInteresting story but...
By Jaybird on 29 Mar. 2007
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I thought this was a really interesting attempt to look at the morality of the 40s through the prism of Bettie Page and a decent attempt to put her into her proper place in history.

Gretchen Mol looks amazingly like Bettie, and does a very nice turn in wide-eyed innocence. However, it is difficult to believe that Bettie remained quite as innocent and free as she was portrayed, particularly given her experiences in early life.

The relationship with her long-term partner is also sketched very loosely, leaving much unsaid.

The black and white filming, with occasional splurges of colour looked beautiful, but lets you know that what you are seeing is not really meant to be a realistic portrayal of Bettie's character; its what she showed those around her at the time.

What I really do not understand, given that there is very little nudity in the film and no intercourse, is how it managed to get an 18 certificate, because there is nothing in this that would be news to a 15 year old. Interesting yes, but erotic or realistic, definitely not.
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe Notorious Bettie Page
By D. E. Jefferson on 12 Dec. 2009
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Brilliant. An extremely well-observed period piece. The mix of innocence and sheer sexual arousal is rewarding. Attitudes have certainly changed since this was made, but I wouldn't mind going back to the standards portrayed in this very good movie
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3.0 out of 5 starsGreat Performance in a Mediocre Film
By K. Driscoll on 16 July 2007
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Mary Harron, one of a slew of concerned filmmakers to appear in Kirby Dick's recent indictment of the MPAA This Film is Not Yet Rated, writes and directs her third picture. The Notorious Bettie Page is about the cult icon and pinup and bondage model that influenced pornography's entry into the cultural mainstream. Bettie Page unwittingly became kind of symbol of women's liberation long after she rediscovered Christianity. She slipped into the mainstream in variable flashes in comic books, music, television, and of course a new generation of inspired Goth burlesque models. This film is her biopic and unlike many biopics the melodrama is downplayed which is of course good for both the subject matter as well as the length of the picture (just 90 minutes). It comes off as a bit more honest and real then some other biopics but on the other hand it sacrifices being as entertaining for these same reasons. Strange considering the rumors of her violent life after she left modeling.

Bettie Page is played by Gretchen Mol and the rest of the cast is good but they are truly drowned out by a boring script, and of course Gretchen herself. Mol's performance is anything but boring and shows a deep understanding of what makes Page a worthy icon. Mol seemingly disappeared for years and then suddenly showed up and did this. I don't want to dwell on how daring she is for the nudity she does in this movie, because even without that kind of commitment and risk Mol deserves the highest praise possible. She was outstanding and was arguably snubbed of some awards.

Mol is the only great thing about this movie. Page was naive to her situation and just happens to not be shy about showing off her body.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsThe resurrection bop
By Adrian Stranik on 1 Jun. 2007
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On the 26th of September 1983 a short dumpy 60 year old woman stood trial for the attempted murder of Leonie Haddad, a lady whose husband had recently died and had agreed to take in a lodger who came via a housing authority for the elderly. Haddad was not made aware that her new lodger had, in fact, come fresh from The Patton State Mental Hospital where she had been incarcerated for an inexplicable knife attack on a married couple three years previously. Haddad soon realised that something was `rotten in Denmark' when the woman began to lock herself in the bathroom with a tape recorder reciting prophesies about' seven Gods'. Haddad's fears were confirmed one night when she awoke to find her lodger sitting astride her chest holding a bread knife announcing that "God has inspired me to kill you". Haddad managed to knock her assailant out with a telephone but not before she had lost a finger and suffered deep lacerations to her face and chest. It was a miracle she survived. The lodger was judged to be innocent by reason of insanity but sent, kicking and screaming, back to the laughing academy.
Ten years later she was released and found that she was now a celebrity; but not for the brutal attacks on her innocent victims, but for her incarnation of 25 years earlier when she was known as the `Queen of the Curve's, the `Tennessee Tease' and `Miss Pin Up Girl of the World' - the Notorious Bettie Page.

Director Mary Harron, mainly known for `American Psycho' takes us back to the glory days of a legendary cheesecake and bondage model (played solidly enough by Gretchen Mol) who inadvertently wrote the blue print for fetish iconography and whose influence can be detected in everything from comic books to catwalks. T.N.B.Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsI thought it was very good and was impressed by the acting and the...

Despite not knowing much about Bettie Page before I watched the film, I thought it was very good and was impressed by the acting and the coherency of the story. Read more

Published 3 months ago by ReviewMonkey
3.0 out of 5 stars... most of film was in black and white I enjoyed the film and acting...

although most of film was in black and white I enjoyed the film and acting was really good.

Published 4 months ago by Mrs. A. Bell
4.0 out of 5 starsTo spank or not?

Lovely portrayal of early fetish moll.

Published 8 months ago by GrahamC
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

thoroughly enjoyed it

Published 10 months ago by Patricia Harrison
1.0 out of 5 starsJerky and unwatchable

Terrible! Couldn't watch the film as it was very jerky and gave the sense of motion sickness. DO NOT PURCHASE you will regret! Read more

Published 18 months ago by nickychick
3.0 out of 5 starsDisappointing

Fairly disappointing. How it got an 18 certificate is beyond me.

Published 19 months ago by David M. Lawrence
5.0 out of 5 starsSTOCKINGS, SUSPENDERS AND RELIGION. DOES LIFE GET ANY BETTER?

Got this as a present for a friend and he loved it. I then watched the film when it was on T.V. and I enjoyed it too.

Published 19 months ago by Mr. Cholmondley Warner
3.0 out of 5 starsThe Notorous Bettie Page

A look back to the past when this kind of film was considered a little risqué. Certainly not so today!

Published 22 months ago by Mike Hardy
5.0 out of 5 starsVA VA VOOM!

VA VA VOOM. VA VA VOOM,. VA VA VOOOOOOOOM!!!!!! Well, what can I say....well, this is a racy, seductive, yet beautful, serene and touching drama biopic film. Read more

Published on 8 Mar. 2013 by Ophelia-Sofia S
4.0 out of 5 starsbettie Page biograpy

interesting to see how Bettie Page grew up and turned into such a famous pin up and why she retired and the court case over irvine claw/federal mail

Published on 7 Dec. 2012 by roolaw

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