The Notorious Bettie Page Page #3

Synopsis: Portrait of an American innocent. In 1955, Bettie Page (1923-2008 ) waits to testify before a Senate subcommittee investigating the effects of pornographic material on American adolescents and juveniles. In flashbacks, we see her childhood in Tennessee, a brief marriage, a gang rape, and her going to New York City in 1949. There she takes acting lessons, models for photos, and acts in short films for adults, earning the nickname, "The Pin-Up Queen of the Universe." We see her relationship with merchants Irving and Paula Klaw, photographers John Willie and Bunny Yeager, boyfriends, and the public. Through it all, she is wholesome, sporting, and forthright - Eve before the fall.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director(s): Mary Harron
Production: Picturehouse
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
56%
R
Year:
2005
91 min
$1,374,990
Website
192 Views


I'd like to see your figure

in profile.

Okay.

All right.

Now, this is a trick

that a lot

of photographic models use.

If you put this

in your swimming suit top,

it will enhance your bustline.

This is all lumpy.

Well, you have

to put it underneath.

Oh...

Oh.

Good.

Now give me saucy.

Good, Bettie.

Great, Bettie.

Great!

Yeah, the poses are great.

Now, I have an idea.

Would you mind

if I changed your hairstyle?

Come, please.

You have a high, round forehead.

There's nothing wrong with it,

but it catches the light.

But if we covered it...

it wouldn't catch the light,

and it frames your face.

Yeah, I see what you mean.

- Yeah? Shall we try?

- Sure.

Austin, Green & Dunleavey.

How may I help you?

Yes, sir.

I'll connect you right away.

- Hi, I'm Bettie.

- I'm Art. Step this way.

Did Jerry tell you

what the setup is?

You can change in there. The other

girl still has a half hour to go.

That's Maxie.

You can learn from her.

She knows all about

the three essentials...

clothes, pose

and expression.

- "Clothes, pose and expression."

- Over here, over here.

- Maxie, this way.

- And look over here.

- Over here.

- Down here to the right.

- You'll get your turn.

- Maxie, we're dying over here.

Don't forget us boys

in the corner.

- Oh.

- Very good, Maxie.

Can you bend over

on one leg?

- No, like this.

- Hey!

Hey, no touching!

Do it again and you're out on your rear.

You don't have

to worry about that.

There's no funny business here.

I see to that.

You think

you can do it?

I can sure try.

Let's see that smile, kid.

Turn to me.

Lift that leg a little bit.

Yeah. And higher.

- Mmm...

- That's nice.

I saw it. I saw beaver.

- You're dreaming. It was a shadow.

- I saw it.

- Mm-hmm.

- What's her name?

- It's Bettie.

- Hey, Bettie.

Can you bend over

for us a little bit?

- Please?

- Show us your keister?

- Hello, keister.

- Very nice.

Nice.

That's good.

To want or need

a mask to hide behind

Comes from a distrust

of ourselves.

It comes from our fear

that we ourselves are boring.

All right.

Now, let's try to go back

to that first

object exercise...

recreating two minutes

of ordinary life

when we're alone.

Bettie,

would you like to show us

what you've been working on?

The curtain rises

and you are sitting on stage.

You are alone.

You sit...

and sit. At last,

the curtain comes down.

Nothing could be simpler,

could it?

The curtain rises...

the curtain comes down.

Bettie, my angel,

it's not necessary

to remove your clothes.

I'd like to try the exercise next

if I may.

Okay, Marvin.

Ahem.

Curtain rises.

Curtain down.

You see,

Marvin sat...

and waited,

and did not act anything.

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Mary Harron

Mary Harron (born January 12, 1953) is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter best known for her films I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page. more…

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