Bettie Page Reveals All Page #5

everything moved, everything moved.

She smiled with her face, she

smiled with her whole body.

And that's something

very few girls got.

The good pinup

involves three things:

Pose, clothes, and expression.

She knew just when I

said, pert, saucy,

frisky, haughty, angry, sullen,

whereas with many other

models I'd have to tell them,

"Well, no, tilt your

head up a little bit,"

"Move it up like that,"

"Raise your eyes," etcetera.

She would pop up into

that right away.

I was very happy posing.

And I never had any problem

thinking of what to

do with my body.

I could think of a thousand different

poses that just came natural to me.

Sometimes I would imagine

the camera was my boyfriend.

And I would play to my boyfriend.

All I do know is that when

Bettie Page was announced

as being the feature model

of next Sunday's shoot,

there was a big crowd.

Did the guys in the camera clubs

ask you out for dates a lot?

No.

Now I wouldn't date anybody

who drank or smoke.

I just don't like the taste

of cigarettes on your breath,

and I hate alcohol.

One of the most interesting

characters in this entire story

was Richard Arbib,

one of her ex-boyfriends.

He was a top designer of the '50s.

Designed cars, watches,

extremely well known designer.

Richard had split up with his wife,

and met Bettie,

and they had a red hot romance,

they were deeply in love.

He took her in his two

seater down to Florida.

Well, we just decided we'd take off

and go to Florida for three weeks.

She wanted to have sex with

me in the car and I said,

"If you're going to do that, I've got

to stop 'cause I'll go off the road."

So she's going away at me,

and all of a sudden there's

a flashlight in the door,

it was raining cats and dogs,

there's a state trooper there.

And I thought he was going to arrest

us for having sex in the car.

All he said was, "You all know

you've got one tail light out."

Bettie had a very normal sex life.

She wasn't inhibited, she wasn't

hung up in any way at all.

She liked sex and she

was very good at it.

Arbib told me he designed

a watch for Bettie.

It was a custom made

piece for Bettie Page.

He was renowned for his watches.

This was a unique one

of a kind piece.

He presented it to her

and she wore it proudly.

And for some reason,

Richard decided that

he was going to give it one

more shot with his wife,

and it didn't work

out with his wife,

and when he came back,

Bettie was gone.

And that was the

regret of his life.

All of the guys that I

knew that met this woman,

had this, "The one that got

away" ennui about them.

She wasn't just a pretty face with

nothing behind it, she was not a facade.

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