The Notorious Bettie Page
The Notorious Bettie Page is a 2005 biographical film directed by Mary Harron. The screenplay by Harron and Guinevere Turner focuses on 1950s pinup and bondage model Bettie Page.
Bettie becomes a favorite of nature photographers including Bunny Yeager, who films her posing with two leopards, and she has no hesitation about removing her clothes for the photographers when asked. Before long images of the shapely brunette reach brotherandsister entrepreneurs Paula and Irving Klaw, who run a respectable business selling movie stills and memorabilia but also deal with fetish photos, magazines, andand 16millimeter films for additional income. Their top model Maxie takes Bettie under her wing, and she soon finds herself wearing leather corsets and thighhigh boots while wielding whips and chains for photographer John Willie, frequently at the request of Little John, a mildmannered attorney with unusual tastes. Bettie is innocently unaware of the sexual nature of the images that rapidly are making her a star in the underground world of bondage aficionados.Bettie is called to testify before a 1955 hearing, headed by Senator Estes Kefauver, investigating the effects of pornography on American youth. Though she waits patiently forhours to answer the committees questions, Kefauver for reasons unknown decides to not bring her before the committee and dismisses her without an explanation. ........
Source: Wikipedia
